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…
Mr. Gopinath Pillai graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Malaya in 1961. He is currently Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of South Asian Studies, Ambassador-at-Large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since August 2008, and Singapore’s Special Envoy to Andhra Pradesh. He was recently appointed as Chairman…
Dan Shefet is the founder of Cabinet Shefet – the firm has focused on international law including European law. Dan Shefet is a French lawyer, born in Denmark, and the author of the individual specialist report to UNESCO on ‘Online Radicalization’, Expert with the Council of Europe on the Internet Ombudsman, Advisor to UNESCO/ Mahatma…
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…
Mr. Md. Nojibur Rahman has joined as Principal Secretary to the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 1 January 2018. Prior to this appointment, he served as Senior Secretary, Internal Resources Division (IRD), Ministry of Finance, and Chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR) for three years since January 2015. Under his guidance and supervision “Good Governance and…
Ambassador Li Debiao, a native of Ningho in the Zhejiang province, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China in 1949. He devoted the next four decades of his life and career to the service of China and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a diplomat, he spent a total of twenty-six years in…
Globally renowned researcher, archivist, and curator Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins has joined the Cosmos Foundation as its newest Advisory Board member. A psychiatrist by profession, he received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1963 and M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Robbins started collecting Rajput, Deccani, Mughal, and other South Asian…
Nahar Khan is a writer, curator, and patron of the arts, serving as the Executive Director at the Bangladesh-based art foundation and intellectual initiative – the Gallery Cosmos and the Cosmos Foundation. She’s an Arts & Culture enthusiast and is keen on working towards inclusive curatorial practices and curatorial activism in order to challenge assumptions,…
Rear Admiral Abu Sayed Mohammed Abdul Awal is a retired senior naval officer and former diplomat with over 36 years of experience in the Bangladesh Navy. He has held prominent positions such as Commandant of the Bangladesh Naval Academy, Director of Naval Operations, and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. Internationally, he served as Defence Adviser…
Latif, born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India in 1957, has an impressive academic and professional background. He graduated with honors in English from Presidency College, Kolkata, and earned a Master of Letters degree in History from Cambridge University as a Chevening scholar. His academic pursuits also include being a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard University…