Citizenship Australian,British Religion Hindu Profession Activist | Spouse(s) Suzanne Lambert Nationality Sri Lankan | |
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Alma mater University of Sydney,University of Oxford Name Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah Books Brits Abroad: Mapping the Scale and Nature of British Emigration Education University of Oxford, University of Sydney | ||
Authenticity and the participation revolution dr dhananjayan sriskandarajah civicus
Dhananjayan Sivaguru ("Danny") Sriskandarajah (born December 1975) is the Secretary General of CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations. He was Director General of the Royal Commonwealth Society, a large NGO devoted to Commonwealth affairs based in London. He was the first non-British and youngest person to head this 140-year-old organisation.
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- Authenticity and the participation revolution dr dhananjayan sriskandarajah civicus
- Entrevista a dhananjayan sriskandarajah secretario general de civicus
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Entrevista a dhananjayan sriskandarajah secretario general de civicus
Early life and education
Sriskandarajah was born in Sri Lanka, the son of Sri Lankan Tamils. He migrated to Australia at a young age.
Sriskandarajah was educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School in Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia, graduating in 1993. He was the school captain.
Sriskandarajah then attended the University of Sydney, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and Social Science in 1998. During 1995 and 1996, he resided at Welsey College, a residential college within, but separate from, the university.
After winning a Rhodes scholarship in 1998, Sriskandarajah then matriculated to the Magdalen College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, to read for an M.Phil. and then a D.Phil. Sriskandarajah is Australia's first Asian Rhodes scholar.
Career
Sriskandarajah held various posts from 2004 to 2009 including Deputy Director of the left-leaning think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research.
He was Director General of the Royal Commonwealth Society, from 2009 to 2012, the youngest ever person and the first non-Briton to head this organisation.
He has been the Secretary General of CIVICUS since January 2013. He is the fourth to hold this position following Miklos Marschall (Hungary), Kumi Naidoo (South Africa) and Ingrid Srinath (India).
In this role Sriskandarajah regularly represents civil society at international meetings including the UN General Assembly in New York and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Sriskandarajah was a member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Humanitarian Finance from 2015 to 2016.
He is a well-known researcher and commentator on migration issues. He has written books and reports on several migration-related topics, including on British emigration. He often appears in the UK media taking a liberal position on immigration issues and writes often in the Financial Times and The Guardian newspaper.
In March 2009, the Royal Commonwealth Society published a poll on British attitudes to Commonwealth, which attracted media coverage in the UK and abroad. Sriskandarajah had a piece in The Guardian on the poll findings.
In 2012, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Personal life
On 16 August 2003, Sriskandarajah married Trinidadian Suzanne Julia Lambert in Trinidad, West Indies.