Enayetullah Khan is the founder of Cosmos Group and WildTeam. Khan pursued Journalism in his academic career at Dhaka University obtaining a Master of Arts in the subject and joining the Faculty as a Lecturer. An alumnus of the Georgetown Leadership Programme, he has been a Guest Lecturer at Columbia University, New York. He is…
Former Bangladeshi Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador Farooq Sobhan is the Distinguished Fellow & Board Member of the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) ( former President & CEO) which was established in October 2000. BEI is an independent research institute committed to the development of the private sector in Bangladesh and which is involved in a variety of research projects relating to…
Ambassador (Retd) Tariq Ahmad Karim, currently Director of the Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies at the Independent University, Bangladesh, has joined the Cosmos Foundation as its Honorary Advisor Emeritus. A career diplomat, Ambassador Karim served extensively both at home and abroad since he joined the Foreign Service in 1967. He had been an advisory…
Haider A. Khan is currently a Distinguished University Professor and professor of economics at the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He has also been a visiting professor at Tokyo University and a visiting scholar at Hitotsubashi University, Tilburg University, People’s University in Beijing and UNU-WIDER. He has served as a senior…
Dr. Danilo Turk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. Türk was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005. He…
Dr. Danilo Turk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. Türk was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005. He…
George E. Moose, Chair, was a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, where he attained the rank of Career Ambassador. His service with the U.S. State Department included assignments in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe. He held appointments as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Benin (1983-86) and to the Republic of Senegal…
George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown KCMG PC (born 16 September 1953) is a British diplomat, communications consultant, journalist, and former politician who has served as president of Open Society Foundations since 2021. A former member of the Labour Party, he was Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations from 2007 to 2009.…
Krishnan Srinivasan (born 15 February 1937) is a retired Indian diplomat, Historian, author, former Indian Foreign Secretary, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations . He was born in Madras, India and educated at Bedford School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in May 1959. His early postings included Oslo, Beirut, and Tripoli. He was India’s Ambassador/High Commissioner to Zambia and Botswana, Nigeria, Benin and Cameroon, the Netherlands and Bangladesh. He was…