Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
| Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | |
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| File:Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, Royal Commonwealth Society (4798659755).jpg | |
| Personal details | |
| Citizenship | Australian, British[1] |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Spouse(s) | Suzanne Lambert |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney, University of Oxford |
| Profession | Activist |
| Religion | Hindu |
Dhananjayan Sivaguru ("Danny") Sriskandarajah (born December 1975) is the Secretary General of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation,.[2][3] 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.[4]
Early life and education
Sriskandarajah was born in Sri Lanka, the son of Sri Lankan Tamils. He migrated to Australia at a young age.[5]
Sriskandarajah was educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School in Carlingford, New South Wales, graduating in 1993. He was the school captain.[6]
Sriskandarajah then attended the University of Sydney,[7] 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.[8]
After winning a Rhodes scholarship in 1998,[9] 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. He finally took the Bar Professional Training Course for the University of Law.[5]
Career
Before being appointed to the RCS, he was Deputy Director of the left-leaning think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research.[10]
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.[11] 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.[12]
In 2012, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Personal life
On 16 August 2003, Sriskandarajah married Trinidadian[13] Suzanne Julia Lambert in Trinidad, West Indies.[6] She is a barrister and a member of the Administrative and Constitutional Law, the London Common Law and Commercial, and the Personal Injury Bar Associations as well as the Trinidad and Tobago Bar Association.[14][15] She, like Sriskandarajah, is a Rhodes scholar, albeit of the Caribbean region. Lambert earned a B.A. summa cum laude in Geography and Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and was a member of the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a B.A. (First-Class Honours) in Jurisprudence at Exeter College, University of Oxford, and a B.V.C. (Bar Vocation Course) (Very Competent; Outstanding in Drafting and Advocacy) at the College of Law in London (now the University of Law).
References
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External links
- Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Works by or about Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Interview with Danny Skiskandarajah
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