The international Advisory Board
serves as a consulting body to the Gandhi Center leadership. The
board includes Nobel Laureates, former heads of state, high civil
servants, CEO's of international corporations, academicians,
scientists, social activists and artists from all five continents,
who pool their different experiences from a wide range of
backgrounds to promote a culture of nonviolence and
peace.
Akbar Ahmed
Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic
Studies, American University, USA
Former High Commissioner of
Pakistan to Great Britain
Tadatoshi Akiba
Mayor of Hiroshima City,
Japan
Baba Amte (d. 2008)
Social Activist,
India
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Nobel Peace
Laureate
Former President of Costa
Rica
A. T. Ariyaratne
President, Sarvodaya Shramadana
Movement, Sri Lanka
Peter Bergen
Print and Television Journalist,
USA
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
and Human Rights, University of Illinois, USA
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Former President of
Brazil
Lawrence E. Carter Sr.
Dean, Martin Luther King Jr.
International Chapel, Morehouse College, USA
John M. Coetzee
Nobel Laureate in
Literature
Paul J. Crutzen
Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry
John Dear, S.J.
Peace Activist,
USA
Richard R. Ernst
Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry
Richard A. Falk
Albert G. Milbank Professor
Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University,
USA
Harriet Mayor Fulbright
President, J. William &
Harriet Fulbright Center, USA
Johan Galtung
Director, Transcend,
Norway
Arun Gandhi
Former President, M. K. Gandhi
Institute of Nonviolence, University of Rochester,
USA
Meera Gandhi
Humanitarian, Businesswoman, and
Diplomat, New York, USA
Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Laureate in
Literature
H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin
Talal
Jordan
Theodore M. Hesburgh
President Emeritus, University
of Notre Dame, USA
Faisal Hoque
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, BTM
Corporation, USA
Daisaku Ikeda
President, Soka Gakkai
International, Japan
M. Farooq Kathwari
Chairman, President, and CEO,
Ethan Allen Interiors, USA
Ashok Khosla
President, Society for
Development Alternatives, India
David Krieger
President, Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, USA
Ervin Laszlo
President, The Club of Budapest,
Hungary
Leon M. Lederman
Nobel Laureate in
Physics
Yuan-Tseh Lee
Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nobel Laureate in
Medicine
Robert Jay Lifton
Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School, USA
Ruud F. M. Lubbers
Former Prime Minister of The
Netherlands
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Nobel Peace
Laureate
Zubin Mehta
Conductor, USA
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman of the Board and Chief
Mentor, Infosys Technologies, India
Michael Nobel
Chairman, Nobel Family Society,
Sweden
Martha Nussbaum
Professor of Law and Ethics,
University of Chicago, USA
Jan Oberg
Director, Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Sweden
Glenn D. Paige
Director, Center for Global
Nonviolence, USA
Margarita Papandreou
Former First Lady,
Greece
Bhikhu Parekh
Member, House of Lords, United
Kingdom
Professor of Political
Philosophy, University of Westminster, United
Kingdom
Neelakantha Radhakrishnan
Director, Ikeda Center for Value
Creation, India
Vandana Shiva
Director, Research Foundation
for Science, Technology and Ecology, India
L. M. Singhvi (d. 2007)
Jurist, India
Sulak Sivaraksa
Social Activist,
Thailand
Mario Soares
Former President of
Portugal
Former Primer Minister of
Portugal
Jack Steinberger
Nobel Laureate in
Physics
David T. Suzuki
Chair, David Suzuki Foundation,
Canada
Ramesh Thakur
Senior Vice Rector (Peace and
Governance), United Nations University, Japan
Shashi Tharoor
Chairman, Afras Ventures,
UAE
Former Under-Secretary-General
of the United Nations
Robert A. Thurman
Professor of Indo-Tibetan
Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, USA
Gene R. Thursby
University of Florida,
Gainesville, USA
Vladimir Tolstoy
Director, Leo Tolstoy
Museum-Estate "Yasnaya Polyana," Russia
Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace
Laureate
Elie Wiesel
Nobel Peace
Laureate
Betty Williams
Nobel Peace
Laureate
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace
Laureate
Zachariah P. Zachariah
CEO and President, Fort
Lauderdale Heart Institute, USA
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Chairman, Foundation for the
Culture of Peace, Spain
Former Director General,
UNESCO
Howard Zinn
Professor Emeritus of Political
Science, Boston University, USA
