The Advisory Board serves as a consultative body to the Gandhi Center leadership. The advisory board consists of the following individuals:

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
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, USA

Meera Gandhi
Humanitarian, Businesswoman, and Diplomat, 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 Prime 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

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 (d. 2010)
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University, USA