Babu Gogineni

Day: Saturday, April 23
Hours: 9:30 - 10:00 am and 2:30 - 3:00 pm
Presentation: The Art of Man and Final Remarks

Babu Gogineni is the Executive Director of IHEU and the Editor of International Humanist News. He is based in London, UK, but is originally from India where he was involved in the Indian Radical Humanist Association and the Rationalist Association of India. Babu successfully led the worldwide campaign to liberate Dr. Younis Shaikh, victim of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, from death row. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Oslo Coalition for Freedom of Religion or Belief and on the Executive Committee of the International Historical Court, and has co-edited three books: Rationalist Essays, The Humanist Way and IHEU 1952-2002, Past, Present and Future.

Babu began his career as a French language teacher and teacher trainer and a literary and technical translator and interpreter at the Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad. The French Embassy in India published a small collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant which he translated into his mother tongue Telugu.