Foundation team

Anuradha Vittachi
Anuradha Vittachi is Director of OneWorld International Foundation, inaugurated in December 1999. Born in Sri Lanka, Ms. Vittachi escaped into political exile with her journalist family at the age of thirteen, to be educated in Kuala Lumpur, London, and Oxford.

Her articles on issues of global justice have been published in journals all over the world, such as WorldPaper (2000) and the Kyoto Journal (2001). Her books include Stolen Childhood: In Search of the Rights of the Child, to accompany the Channel Four series of the same name, Earth Conference One, on global survival, and a contribution to Electronic Empires, an academic volume exploring the impact of new media on global social relations.

Ms Vittachi has also been an award-winning television producer; her credits include the BBC documentaries on Oxfam's aid to India, The Two-Edged Sword on the global arms trade, and filmed interviews with the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev.
In 1995 she became Co-Director and Founding Editor of OneWorld Online where she pioneered the development of the OneWorld.net supersite. She was Co-Director of OneWorld Broadcasting Trust from 1994 until she took up her current position in 1999.

Miles Litvinoff
Miles Litvinoff joined the OneWorld International Foundation as Governance Manager in autumn 2001.

He was previously Head of Programmes at Minority Rights Group International and Associate Lecturer in Environment Studies with the Open University. From 1996 to 2001 his work included line-management of an international team of desk and field officers, programme and project design and implementation, commissioning and editing reports, workshop design and facilitation, fundraising, training, and presenting papers at workshops and conferences. He is a trained facilitator (Technology of Participation) and was a member of the editorial advisory board of the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities (forthcoming 2002).

As a freelance writer and editor between 1984 and 1996 he published several books on human rights and sustainable development, including The Greening of Aid (1988), The Earthscan Action Handbook for People and Planet (1990), No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today (1995), The Young Gaia Atlas of Earthcare (1996), and The World Directory of Minorities (Project Director, 1997).

He also has a background in community politics, environmental campaigning, international solidarity movements, journalism, trade union work and teaching.