Anuradha VITTACHI (Co-Chair) is director of the new OneWorld International
Foundation, inaugurated in December 1999. She is an internationally published author
and journalist. 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 global issues have been published in journals all over
the world. Her books include Stolen Childhood: In Search of the Rights of the
Child, to accompany the Channel Four series of the same name, and Earth
Conference One, on global survival. Ms. Vittachi has also been an award-winning
television producer, her credits include the BBC documentaries on Oxfam’s aid to
India, and The Two-Edged Sword, on the global arms trade. As the founding editor
of OneWorld Online in 1995, she pioneered the development of the OneWorld
supersite. Along with Peter Armstrong, she was until recently a director of the
OneWorld Broadcasting Trust and OneWorld Online. In 1997, she was named
Woman of the Year in the United Kingdom.