Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is an influential economic thinker and advocate for social justice, currently serving as the chief executive of the New Economics Foundation. He has a notable background in leading global organizations, including Oxfam GB and Civicus, focusing on issues of inequality, economic reform, and the impacts of globalization on developing countries. Sriskandarajah’s work often critiques neoliberal policies and emphasizes the need for more equitable economic structures, drawing on his experiences from his activism in the 1990s against the policies of the World Bank and IMF. His recent comments highlight concerns about foreign ownership of UK assets and the implications for national sovereignty and economic independence.