Danny Sriskandarajah

Danny Sriskandarajah is the child of Tamil migrants who moved from Sri Lanka to Australia. He attended Oxford University as the first Rhodes scholar from an Asian Immigrant background. He has had a distinguished career in the third sector, running CIVICUS, the Johannesburg-based alliance of civil society organisations, before becoming CEO of Oxfam GB. Danny is at heart a thinker and a radical who believes that governmental and charity structures are based on outdated nineteenth-century models. His opinion pieces have been published in newspapers in more than 30 countries, and he regularly appears on broadcast media, including programmes such as the BBC’s Today programme and Question Time. He has spoken at over 500 events in some 70 countries, including at the United Nations General Assembly, the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings at Davos, and committees of both Houses of the UK Parliament. He is the CEO of the New Economics Foundation, the progressive think tank. He tweets @dhnnjyn