Kumi Naidoo to 2008, he was the Secretary General and chief executive officer of Johannesburg-based Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, which is dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. He also served as the founding chairperson of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. Kumi Naidoo joined Greenpeace in 2009. He had been persuaded by his daughter Naomi to take on the role. Greenpeace's commitment to direct action and civil disobedience was what attracted Naidoo to the organisation. Naidoo saw his role as the executive director of Greenpeace as that of an alliance builder and an agent
Indira Naidoo impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Her first book, "The Edible Balcony", an urban farming cookbook, published by Penguin in October 2011, sold over 10,000 copies within six months and has been reprinted four times. Her second book The Edible City was published in August 2015. Naidoo is the sustainability curator with the Australian Garden Show Sydney. Naidoo gained national prominence in 1997 for her less serious appearances on the ABC's "Club Buggery", a late-night comedy variety show hosted by Roy & HG in which she starred as policewoman Barbara in a regular comedy sketch—a police spoof titled "Sam Stain" alongside