Leelananda De Silva

Leelananda De Silva worked for the government of Sri Lanka from 1960 to1977.
From 1970 to 1977, he was in charge of international economic relations,
particularly with UN agencies. He was the secretary of the economic committee
of the Nonaligned Summit in 1976. From 1978 to 1982, he was executive secretary of the Third World Forum, held in Nyon, Switzerland. Since then, he has been an international consultant to the UN, working in more than 30 countries and with 12 UN bodies, including the UN Development Program, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. He has also worked as a consultant to the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the International Council for Voluntary Agencies.

De Silva is the author of "Development Aid, A Guide to Facts and Issues" and contributed to the history of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific for the UN Intellectual History Project.