Janadas Devan is a former journalist, and is the current Chief of Government Communications at the Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore coordinates the Government's public communications. He is also a director at the public policy think-tank Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). Nair was formerly a senior editor of The Straits Times, the flagship English-language daily newspaper of the Singapore Press Holdings. He is the son of C.V. Devan Nair, the third President of Singapore. Devan studied at the National University of Singapore and Cornell University in New York. He is married to literary scholar Geraldine Heng.