Ricken Patel

Ricken Patel "is Canadian and has consulted for the International Crisis Group, the United Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, Harvard University, CARE International and the International Center for Transitional Justice, in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Sudan and New York. He has a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelor’s degree from Balliol College, Oxford University. He graduated first in a class of 350 from Oxford, and led student governments and student activism at both universities." 

He refers to Dag Hammarskjöld as one of his heroes.

Affiliations

 * Executive Director, Avaaz
 * Director, Namati
 * International Advisory Board, AccessNow.org
 * Former Director, Faith in Public Life
 * Advisory Council,J Street
 * International Advisory Council,350.org