Kumi Naidoo is Greenpeace International Executive Director. Born in 1965, Kumi is a well-known activist, involved with the anti-apartheid struggle from the age of 15. As he continued to have a strong involvement in South African politics, in 1986 he was arrested and forced into exile in the UK in 1989. He is a Rhodes Scholar and earned a doctorate in political sociology at Magdalen College Oxford. For 10 years preceding his appointment as GPI's Executive Director, he was the Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. He also sat on the board of Greenpeace Africa.