Mon. May 6th, 2024

Advisory Council Members

Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor

Former President of Ghana, former Chair, African Union, Accra, Ghana

Ms. Felia Salim

Director of Indonesia’s Eximbank, Jakarta, Indonesia

Dr. Geoff Heriot

Council of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia

Ambassador Gennet Zewide

Director General, Women’s Strategic Development Center, Ethiopia’s former Minister of Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ambassador Lena Sundh

Former Swedish Diplomat, Deputy Special Representative of UN Secretary General, Stockholm, Sweden

Mr. Sunil Bahadur Thapa

Political Adviser to the President of Nepal, former Minister for Commerce, Kathmandu, Nepal

Mr. Radhakrishnan Nair

Director, Soma Block Prints Private Limited, India

Ambassador A.R. Ghanashyam IFS (Retd.)

 New Delhi, India

Admiral Arun Prakash, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM (Retd)

Former Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy

General Gaurav Shamsher Rana

Former Chief of Army Staff of the Nepalese Army, Kathmandu, Nepal

Admiral Sunil Lanba PVSM, AVSM, PJG, ADC (Retd)

Former Chair, Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy

Ms. Fereshte Sethna

Founder Partner, DMD Advocates, India

Mr. Satya Moorthy

Chair, Center for Economic and Sustainable Development, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mr. Shreyas Jayasimha

Founder, Aarna Law (India), Aarna ADR (Singapore), and eminent advocate, arbitrator, mediator, India

General Satish Nambiar PVSM, AVSM, VrC (Retd.)

 First Force Commander and Head of Mission of UNPROFOR, the United Nations Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia 

General Arun Kumar Sahni (Retd)

Former General Officer Commanding, South Western Command, Indian Army

Air Vice Marshal Vivek Rajhans VSM (Retd)

Former Commandant, Military Institute of Technology (MILIT), India

Laura Yerekesheva

Professor at al Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan

Prashant Goswami

Lead Author, Assessment Report 5 of the Inter-government Panel on Climate Change, a leading Indian climatologist, India

Professor Rashed Uz Zaman

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Kavita Sharma

From President, South Asian University, India

Mr. Kunle Ajagbe

Partner, Adrian Partners, Nigeria, Trustee, Global Rights Nigeria and member, Nigerian Bar Association and International Bar Association

Rajiv Sinha

Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, is a director at Global Dialogue Forum, specialising in strategic issues

Muthupandi Ganesan

Barrister-at-Law, Chair, Society of Mediators in London, Partner, Aliant Law, UK

Datuk Lim Sue Beng

 Deputy Chair, Center for Economic & Sustainable Development, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tan Sri Datuk Ong Tee Keat

Chairman, Centre for New Inclusive Asia (CNIA), former Minister for Transport of Malaysia