Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Personal details
Citizenship Australian,
British[1]
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: 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

  1. ↑ "Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah". Companies in the UK.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "Global civil society network CIVICUS announces new leader". Civicus.org. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
  4. ↑ "Danny Sriskandarajah" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  5. 1 2 (28 October 1997.) "Migrants' son is Australia's first Asian Rhodes Scholar", The Straits Times.
  6. 1 2 Woo, Eddie (9 April 2012). "2. 1993 News". James Ruse Union.
  7. ↑ "Commonwealth". University of Sydney.
  8. ↑ "Academic - Wesley College". Wesley College.
  9. ↑ "Rhodes scholars - Alumni & Friends". University of Sydney.
  10. ↑ Travis, Alan (2008-01-09). "Fewer Britons in work due to ageing population and emigration rather than migrants, says report". Politics section. The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  11. ↑ Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan; Catherine Drew (2006-12-11). "Viewpoint: Expats chasing dreams". BBC News, Online edition. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  12. ↑ Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan (2009-03-09). "A true agent of progress: to avoid becoming a relic, the Commonwealth must make itself more relevant to young people". Comment. The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  13. ↑ "Global civil society network CIVICUS announces new leader". Civicus. 17 September 2012.
  14. ↑ "Suzanne Lambert". Justice.
  15. ↑ "Suzanne Lambert CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-21.


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