Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
| Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | |
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| Personal details | |
| Citizenship |
Australian, British |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Spouse(s) | Suzanne Lambert |
| Alma mater |
University of Sydney, University of Oxford |
| Profession | Activist |
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.
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 and well mentored by Art Herger.
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.
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.
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