Anuradha Vittachi

Anuradha Vittachi fled into exile from her native Sri Lanka at the age of 13, after her journalist family was subjected to life-threatening political persecution. This attempt to silence truth-telling journalists set her lifelong conviction in the importance of responsible media and good governance.

She is an internationally published journalist and an award-winning TV documentary-maker on global justice issues, and the author of acclaimed books on global survival (featuring Carl Sagan and James Lovelock on climate change) and on child rights around the world.

In 2000, the British Government selected her to be the UKs civil society delegate to the G8 Summits Digital Opportunity Taskforce (DOTForce).

In 1994-5, she co-founded the OneWorld Network, with its 13 OneWorld centres worldwide, and was its first editor, winning OneWorld.net a cabinetful of awards. In 1997 she was chosen UK Woman of the Year for new media.

Currently Anuradha is Director Emerita of OneWorlds governing body, Executive Director of OneWorld UK, and instigator of the OneClimate Initiative, which uniquely integrates Second Life islands with OneClimate.net (a Climate Facebook) and daily Climate News services, as a contribution to the birth of a low-carbon world - a fair and sustainable home for the worlds children.