Philip Geoffrey Elwin Nash CBE (20 September 1906 – 8 December 1982) was an English civil servant who worked in India and Burma during colonial rule and a broadcasting administrator at the British Broadcasting Corporation.
He was educated at St Paul's School, London and at Worcester College, Oxford University.
[3] Nash studied at the London School of Economics after leaving Oxford and then joined the Indian Civil Service in 1931.
[4] He was secretary to the Burmese delegation to the 1937 Coronation and the Imperial Conference of that year, and during the Second World War was superintendent of provinces in Burma, when he was captured by the Japanese.
He walked to freedom in India and was then principal at the Burma Office, before returning to be secretary to the Viceroy during independence from 1946 to 1948.