CEO of Viterra, Wheat Board Canada.
Nayan Sthankiya, a Canadian photojournalist of East Indian decent and grew up in small town Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, currently based in India covering international news in the Asia Pacific region. He has traveled to well over 40 countries world wide, born in Uganda, Africa to East Indian parents and forced to flee during a brutal civil war.
He studied multi-media arts at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Nayan slowly gravitated away from fine arts to photography. After spending a year lobbying the Chinese for the release of an imprisoned Korean photojournalist he realized the power of the image to effect change and to inform and teach the world.
He was asked to undertake disaster missions with the Korean Medical Association to Aceh and Paksitan and spent 14days traveling throughout North Korea with the Korean Friendship Association.
In a short period of time his images and writing have appeared in prestigious and influential publications world wide, National Geographic Korea, NYT, L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal Asian Magazine, Financial Times and International.
