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Rohan Hewavisenthi

Chief Financial Officer at Amnesty International; Chartered Accountant with 20+ years in CFO and COO roles across non-profit and humanitarian organizations.

Jun 25, 2026

15:10
We'll come back to a couple of those points in a few moments time, Rohan, but first I want to reflect back on your career journey to this point and you've spent what seems your entire career in the not-for-profit sector across some of the uk's most prominent and varied mission-led organizations you mentioned some of them already today take us through that journey and i'm i'm curious what you see as well whether there is apart from the obvious not-for-profit kind of mission-led thing were there any other threads that have run through it all for you
15:42
i did a degree in mechanical engineering, did a master's in mechanical engineering.
15:49
And I was sponsored for a couple of years of that with IBM, which at the time was the world's biggest tech company.
15:59
Mind you, it was before tech was cool.
16:02
So unfortunately, I missed that.
16:04
It was a bit too early on that.
16:08
And then I had a few years off traveling, working in different countries.

7 MINS LATER

22:58
What can you tell me about the role that Gen AI is playing in an organization like, or will potentially be playing if it isn't already inside an organization like Amnesty International?

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