Ibrahim Nasir

Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan, NGIV (born 1926) is a Maldivian statesman who served as his country's President from 1968 to 1978. He succeeded Sultan Muhammad Farid Didi as head of state. Nasir is widely credited with modernizing the long-isolated and nearly unknown Maldives and opening them up to the rest of the world.