Ram Harijan

Ram Harijan (born 3 June 1938, Keecheri near Kannur in Kerala) is an Indian-born technology-transfer researcher living in England. In 1970s, he was involved in activities of North Devon Labour Party. During that period, he was also a campaigner for racial equality.
After taking an Honors degree in Mathematics from Madras University, he worked as a Trainee Mining Officer in Singareni Collieries, Andhra Pradesh and as a Lecturer at the Government Brennan College in Kerala, he left India and settled in England from 1964 onwards. In England, he trained as a teacher at London University's Institute of Education before doing an MA in Research Methodology from Southampton University and a PhD in Information Technology from Reading University.
In England, he taught in schools, colleges and universities before researching on the phenomenon of late development syndrome (a claim that a psychosomatic condition impacts some of the residents of countries that developed after the modern economies) and ways of combating the syndrome through technology transfer and targeted inputting of computers to combat India's late-development syndrome.

In the 1970s, Harijan was involved in British Labour Party politics. He served as North Devon District Labour Party's Chairman from 1972 to 1977 and as Devon Association for Racial Equality from 1977 to 1980. During this period, he was North Devon's Delegate at Labour's Regional and National Conferences.
His parents, Narayanan and Devaki Nambiar, were restaurateurs in Ooty, Tamilnadu. He married VP Lakshmi on 19 August 1977. They have one daughter.

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