1. Dhananjayan Sivaguru "Danny" Sriskandarajah was born on December 1975 and is a Sri Lankan-born British-Australian activist who is the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.
19 Facts About Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was the first non-British and youngest person to head the Royal Commonwealth Society, a large non-governmental organisation devoted to Commonwealth affairs, based in London, England.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is the author of the book Power to the People, published in 2024.
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Danny Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was born in Sri Lanka, the son of Sri Lankan Tamil parents who first moved to Australia as doctoral students.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School in Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia, graduating in 1993.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was the school captain and well mentored by Art Herger.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah then attended the University of Sydney, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and Social Science in 1998.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah's research focused on inequalities and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah held various posts from 2004 to 2009, including Deputy Director of the left-leaning think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was Director General of the Royal Commonwealth Society, from 2009 to 2012, the youngest ever person and the first non-Briton to head this 140-year-old organisation.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was the Secretary General of CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations from January 2013 to December 2018.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was the fourth person to hold this position, following Miklos Marschall, Kumi Naidoo and Ingrid Srinath.
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In July 2018, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was announced as a member of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, co-chaired by Jack Ma and Melinda Gates.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was previously a member of the High Level Panel on Humanitarian Finance from 2015 to 2016.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was Chief Executive of Oxfam GB from January 2019 to December 2023.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah was appointed Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation in January 2024.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation that campaigns for democratic reformation of the United Nations.
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is the author of the 2024 book Power to the People, published by Headline.
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On 16 August 2003, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah married Trinidadian barrister Suzanne Julia Lambert in Trinidad, West Indies.