Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Personal details
Born
Dhananjayan Sivaguru Sriskandarajah

December 1975 (age 48–49)
Sri Lanka
CitizenshipAustralian,
British[1]
NationalityAustralian, British
Spouse
Suzanne Lambert
(m. 2003)
Alma materUniversity of Sydney,
University of Oxford
ProfessionActivist

Dhananjayan Sivaguru "Danny" Sriskandarajah (born December 1975)[2] is a Sri Lankan-born British-Australian activist who is the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.

Until December 2023, he was Chief Executive of Oxfam GB.[3] Prior to that, Sriskandarajah was the Secretary General of CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations.[4] He was the first non-British and youngest person to head the Royal Commonwealth Society, a large non-governmental organisation (NGO) devoted to Commonwealth affairs, based in London, England.[4]

Sriskandarajah is the author of the book Power to the People, published in 2024.

  1. ^ "Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah". Companies in the UK.
  2. ^ "Celebrating Britain's 101 Most Influential Asians 2023 | Danny Sriskandarajah". easterneye.biz. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah to step down as Oxfam GB Chief Executive at end of year | Oxfam GB". Oxfam GB (Press release). 15 June 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Global civil society network CIVICUS announces new leader". Civicus.org. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2014.