Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Since 1998, Mr. Naidoo has been the Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of CIVICUS. With a small staff of 12, but a membership of more than 500 organizations and individuals from 97 countries, CIVICUS is dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. He is a member of the steering committee of the World Economic Forum's Global Governance Initiative. He grew up in South Africa and was later a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, from which he holds a PhD.