Advisors
As part of our institutional development process, we will convene a group of Senior Advisors. These advisors contribute their strategic insight, networks, and expertise to our business.
Dr. Alejandro Bendaña
Alejandro (Ph.D. History, Harvard) is president of the Centro de Estudios Internacionales in Managua (Nicaragua), which he founded in 1990. Prior to establishing CEI, his diplomatic career included serving as the Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Managua), as well as the Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United Nations. Alejandro has also provided consulstancy services to various international bodies on disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, and on post-war peacebuilding in Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Indonesia. In Nicaragua, he is a trainer in community peace-building, reconciliation and mobilization for economic justice.
Dr. Kumar Rupesinghe
Kumar
(Ph.D. Economics, City) is the Chairman/Founder of the National Anti-War Front
and the Foundation for Coexistence in Sri Lanka since 2003. He serves as the advisor on Peace Initiatives
to the Carter Centre’s International Negotiation Network (Atlanta) and has advised the Sri
Lankan Prime Minister on the Triple ‘R’ Programme (2002). Kumar held the positions of Secretary General
of International Alert (1992-1998), Director of the State of the World Forum
(1997-2000), and Commissioner of the Commission on Globalisation (State of the
World Forum) (1999-2002). He is the Chair of the Programme on Culture and Ethnicity of the
Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan) and a Member
of the Board at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD).