Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy founded Peace Direct in 2002. She founded and led the Oxford Research Group from 1982, and was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003. 'Previously she was a consultant at UNESCO on women's issues, a director of Minority Rights Group in France and has worked for ten years in southern Africa.'[1]
Between 2005-7 she was an adviser to Richard Branson, Nelson Mandela and Peter Gabriel regarding the creation of ‘The Elders’. She is currently also a Councillor on the World Future Council. In 1993 she gained her Ph.D in political science at Bradford University.
Affiliations
- OpenDemocracy, author
