The Advisory Board serves as a consultative body to the Gandhi Center leadership.

 

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

 

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