Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker.

My guest today, Danny Sriskanderaja, is chief executive of one of the world's biggest and best-known aid charities, Oxfam, Great Britain.

His background gave him early exposure to the challenges posed by conflict and displacement.

His Tamil-Shran family fled their home country

as inter-ethnic violence increased in the 1980s. They eventually settled in Australia, where Danny

excelled at school, eventually winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. Since then, he's worked in a number

of civil society think tanks and NGOs, culminating in his appointment as head of Oxfam G.B some four years ago.

Now, he took the job at an extremely difficult time.

Oxfam had been rocked by revelations that its staff in Haiti had abused their positions and their power routinely using prostitutes,

some of them underage during their post-earthquake relief operations.

The truth was exposed by journalists some seven years after the event,

and it pointed to failings in leadership which saw the charity temporarily banned

from receiving UK government money.

Mr. Sriskandaraja promised wholesale change to safeguard vulnerable populations

and change the NGO culture. Indeed, he promised to completely reimagine how a big aid NGO should

work to promote much closer relationships with local aid and assistance networks.

At the same time, he's put a focus on big picture campaigning, highlighting the scale of

global economic inequality and the failure of governments across the world to deliver economic

justice. Has any of this made a difference to the way the rich world delivers

assistance to the poor? Well, Danny Sri Skanderaja joins me now. Welcome to Hard Talk.

Thank you, Stephen. Let's start with those two different ways of looking at what's happening

to the world's poorest people. One in 20, almost, still suffering

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