United Kingdom, turned IHEU into a multi-lingual proactive campaigning organization, arranged IHEU's lobbying efforts at an international level by securing Special Consultative status at the United Nations, organized IHEU's first General Assembly (GA) in Africa, and conceptualized and founded the IHEU Centre for Bioethics at the UN in New York. He also helped organize IHEU's Congresses in Mumbai (1999), Amsterdam (2002) and Paris (2005), and its first GA in Africa (2004). Positions held Executive Director, IHEU, from 1997 until 2015. Keynotes, Lectures and Debates Mexico National University's Primavera lecture on Globalization at the Anthropology Museum of Mexico City, 1999. Hinduism and the Myth of Evolution at conference on Darwin, Humanism and Science sponsored by European Humanist Federation, British Humanist Association, and IHEU, 2009. World Humanist Congress in Oxford, 2014. Cambridge Union Society's Debate, Cambridge University, 2014. The Human Angle lecture series (30+ lectures) in the US and the UK at MIT/Harvard University Humanist Hub, University of South Florida, Asian Rationalist Society Birmingham, South Asian Human Conference, North American Telugu Association (NATA) Conference, 2016. Championing the Light of Reason at TEDx Hyderabad, 2016. In media What is Religion? a two-episode series of The Big Question radio program broadcast by BBC World Service featured Gogineni, 2004. Superstition Kills, a documentary about superstition in India, made by Henrik Thomé features Gogineni, 2009. The Big Question with Babu Gogineni, a TV series hosted by Gogineni on science and civilization, 2015. Open Heart With RK, Season 2, ABN Andhra Jyothi, 2015. References External links Superstition kills, a documentary about superstitions in India featuring Babu Gogineni Championing the Light of Reason, Babu Gogineni at TEDx Hyderabad 1968 births Living people Telugu people Secular humanists Indian rationalists Indian humanists Indian atheism activists Writers from Hyderabad, India English-language writers from India Asian writers in French Telugu-language writers Pondicherry University alumni Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series) contestants