Nationality Indian | Name MP Joseph | |
Residence Ernakulam, Kerala, India Alma mater Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin. Victoria University of Manchester
United Kingdom Occupation Adviser and consultant to government of kerala in the rank of additional chief secretary to government | ||
M.P. Joseph originally from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), began his career winning the prestigious Reenu Sandhu Gold Medal at the Lal Bahadur Sashtri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie. Joseph was earlier in the 1977 batch of the Indian Police Service (IPS). He had also worked as a Probationary Officer in the State Bank of India for over a year and half. M. P. Joseph holds a Master's degree in Human Resources Development from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK and a Master's degree in Solid State Physics from the Cochin University of Science and Technology. Joseph is a powerful public speaker and well known in lecture circuits. He also hosts a weekly English TV Talk Show called Youth Xpress on Asianet News.
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Joseph is currently Advisor and Consultant to Government of Kerala in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary to Government and Executive Vice-Chairman of Bhavanam Foundation Kerala, a non-profit public sector Company fully owned by the Government of Kerala, set up to build own homes for labourers and workers and for Domestic Migrant Labour in Kerala. Joseph is the co-author of a Study of Domestic Migrant Labour in Kerala with the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram. He contributed to the draft Kerala Migrant Labour Social Security Bill, is Chairperson of the 12th Five Year Plan Expert Committee on Employment and Skills, of the Kerala State Planning Board, Conceptualized and drafted Bhavanam, a Housing Scheme for Plantation Labour in the State etc.
Early Life and career
Joseph started his career in the IAS as Sub Collector Trichur and later moving on as District Collector, Ernakulam, where he also concurrently held charge for as Mayor of the Corporation of Cochin in which capacity he played host as Cochin's First Citizen amongst others, to His Holiness Pope John Paul II during the only ever Papal visit to the State in 1985. Later he was Labour Commissioner, Kerala for the longest ever period for any Labour Commissioner in the state, a record of nearly 6 years. Joseph has also worked as general manager, District Industries Centre, Kollam, managing director Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants, Kerala, Cashew Special Officer, Kerala etc. During the first Gulf War, Joseph headed a team of the Ministry of External Affairs that worked with the Indians fleeing from Kuwait through the Iraq Jordan border, in the desert camps between Iraq and Jordan ensuring the safe return of over 100,000 Indians fleeing the Iraqi invasion.
Joseph joined the ILO in 1992 and started up the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in India. He highlighted child labour in public consciousness and moulded opinion and attitudes against it. His work and its impact has been highlighted not only in India but internationally and in discussions in the British House of Commons.
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Joseph has been an occasional host on TV channels and have created and anchored reality shows, travelogues, sports shows, debates and discussions on TV, including programmes such as Sporting '89, Just A Minute, the Coast (a weekly travelogue on Doordarsan on the rich and unique culture and the unity within diversity of the west coast of India, where Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Jews have coexisted over many centuries) etc.
Currently Joseph is hosting a Weekly English Programme on the prestigious Malayalam News Channel, Asianet News titled 'Youth Xpress: What the Young are thinking in Kerala and Outside'. .