Speaker Sessions
Jeevan Thiagarajah
Chairman, Centre for Humanitarian AffairsJEEVAN THIAGARAJAHColombo, Sri Lanka • +94 777 316288 • execdir@cha.lkSummaryPreventing Violent Extremism - Human Security – Responding to Pandemics and Disasters – GovernanceCEO working since 1983 promoting multiculturalism, design of public policies and defining advisory services for policies around human security for minorities and marginalised groups, durable solutions for the end of displacement, countering root causes of violent extremism, specialist countering climate induced disasters, coordinating agencies delivering assistance, seeking compliance with standards and international best practices, convening observers and observing elections (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Nepal) ; Career working with specialists and eminent persons in the non-profit sector, government institutions and multilateral bodies and other governments; Columnist in national daily ; Resource persons at Think Tank organised events and Civil servant.QualificationsM.A. (South Asian Studies), School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) Certificate from Summer School on Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Programme (University of Oxford)Social Entrepreneurship Programme (INSEAD Business School - Singapore)