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| | Afghanistan Chairperson: Hon. Prof. Omara Khan Masoodi
Director of Kabul Museum. | | | | |  | | Bangladesh Chairperson: Hon. Kamal Hossain
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973 - 1975). Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee of Bangladesh (1972), Member of Parliament (1973 - 1975), Minister of Law (1972 - 1973), and is currently United Nations Special Reporter on Afghanistan, and Chairman of a Panel of the United Nations Compensation Commissions. He is also Vice-Chairman of the International Law Association, Chairman of the Advisory Council of Transparency International, and Chairman of the Bangladesh Legal Aid & Services Trust.
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| | | | |  | | Bhutan Chairperson: Hon. Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup
Minister for Agriculture of the Royal Government of Bhutan. Former Minister for Health and Education, Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup is an alumnus of St. Stephen's College and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Starting his career as a diplomat he rose to the position of a Cabinet Minister in 1998. He also became the Chairman of the Council of Minister (Primer Minister) for one year, under rotation, from July 1999 to July 2000. | | | | |  | | India Chairperson: Hon. Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar
Minister for Panchayati Raj & Development of North Eastern Region. Mani Shankar Aiyar was born in Lahore on 10th April 1941. After schooling at Welham Preparatory School and the Doon School, Dehra Dun, he went up to St.Stephen's College, Delhi where he got a first in Economics with Honours coming first in the University. He went on to do his MA in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was elected Secretary of the Union for the Easter Term of 1963.
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| | | | |  | | Maldives Chairperson: Hon. Dr. Ahmed Shaheed
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives. Honourable Dr. Ahmed Shaheed was educated in schools in Malé and Colombo, before attending the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in International Politics and Strategic Studies. He obtained his PhD in 1995 from the University of Queensland, Brisbane in the field of International Relations.
Read more > | | | | |  | | Nepal Chairperson: Dr. Rita Thapa
Senior Health Policy Adviser in Nepal's Ministry of Health. Dr. Thapa also serves as a member of the National Health Sector Reform Committee, the National AIDS Council and several other bodies. She was with the World Health Organisation (1986 to late 2001), serving in regional capacities and at the WHO headquarters at Manila, Geneva, Kathmandu and Delhi. Health systems, community health, reproductive health and family planning and maternal and child health are among her areas of specialisation. | | | | |  | | Pakistan Chairperson: Prof. Salima Hashmi
Dean, School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Professor Salima Hashmi is a painter, art educationist, writer and curator. She was educated at the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, the Bath Academy of Art, U.K., and the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. She taught for 30 years at NCA, Pakistan's premier art institution, and retired as its Principal. She has exhibited her own work, travelled and lectured extensively all over the world, and has curated about a dozen international art shows in the U.K., Europe, the USA, Australia, Japan and India. She is a recipient of The President's Award for Pride of Performance, Pakistan. | | | | |  | | Sri Lanka Chairperson: Hon. H.E. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was born on 29th June 1945, in Colombo. She is the daughter of late Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1956 until his assassination in 1959, and of Mrs. Sirima R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960 - 1965 and 1970 - 1977.
She is the widow of film idol and political party leader, Vijaya Kumaratunga, who was assassinated in 1988. She has two children, daughter Yasodhara and a younger son Vimukthi.
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