Dilani Champika Alagaratnam Goonatilleke | Member

Dilani Alagaratnam LLB. LL.M (Sri Lanka) is an Attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.  Currently, she also chairs the Legislation Sub-committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and  a director of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce-ICLP Alternate Dispute Resolution Centre.  She is a member of the advisory committee of the State-Owned Enterprises Divestiture Unit of the Government of Sri Lanka and performs the role of Ombudsperson for South Asia Gateway Terminals (Pvt) Limited.

She served in many capacities in the John Keells Group of Companies in Sri Lanka, one of the largest diversified conglomerates in Sri Lanka, since joining the Group in 1992. At the time of her retirement from John Keells Holdings PLC, the holding Company of the John Keells Group, in December 2019, she was a member of its Group Executive Committee and had Group level responsibility for the Functions of Legal & Secretarial; Human Resources; Enterprise Risk Management; Sustainability and CSR; Group Sourcing and for the business of John Keells Office Automation.  She has also been a long-standing director of Union Assurance PLC, a large, listed insurance company, and has been a director of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka, which is responsible for implementing all ICT Projects implemented by the Government of Sri Lanka, among the many other directorates she has held. Ms Alagaratnam also held the position of Council Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors and has been a long-standing member of the National Labour Advisory Committee.

She has been recognized as a Career Woman Role Model by Women in Management and as one of the most powerful women in Sri Lanka by the Echelon Magazine.

Radhika Coomaraswamy

Radhika Coomaraswamy received her BA from Yale University, her J.D. from Columbia University and her LLM from Harvard University. In Sri Lanka, she was Director of International Centre for Ethnic Studies from 1982 to 2005 and the Chairperson of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission from 2003 to 2006. Recently, from 2015-2018, she was a member of the Constitutional Council. Radhika Coomaraswamy was a founder member of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development and is currently Chairperson of the South Asians for Human Rights

Internationally, Radhika Coomaraswamy served as UN Under Secretary General and as Special Representative of the Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 until her retirement in 2012 and the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women from 1994-2003. In 2014, the UN Secretary General asked Radhika Coomaraswamy to lead the Global Study to review the fifteen-year implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. In 2017 she was appointed to the UN Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar and also appointed as a member of The Secretary General’s Board of Advisors on Mediation.

Radhika Coomaraswamy is on the global faculty of the New York University School of Law. She was privileged to be asked to deliver the Grotius Lecture of the American Association of International Law in 2013 and the Tanner Lecture of the University of Michigan in 2016 and the Eli Lauterpact lecture of the University of Cambridge in 2020.

She has also received numerous prizes, awards and honours both nationally and internationally including the international law award of the American Bar Association, the Bruno Kreisky award, the Leo Ettinger award, among others. She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Amherst College, Leuven University and the City University of New York. In Sri Lanka she received the honorary title of Deshamanya in 2015.

In 2021-2022 she was a member of the Commission of Independent Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.

Kath Khangpiboon

Kath Khangpiboon, a social worker and a transgender woman from Thailand, is a strong advocate against transphobia and violence towards transgender individuals and for improved access to healthcare services. She co-founded the Thai Transgender Alliance (Thai TGA), a national network of activists dedicated to addressing the unmet needs of the transgender community. Kath was also a former board member of the Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN), established in 2010 to provide a platform for trans women from Asia and the Pacific regions to discuss important community issues. Through her media work, she highlights the rights of transgender individuals in Thailand and aims to educate the public on LGBT matters. She is an Assistant Professor at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, within the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Administration.

Mary Jane Real – Member, Philippines

Mary Jane N. Real is a founding Co-Lead of Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights Asia and Pacific (UAF A&P). She was in charge of Programmes and Innovation and co-led the setting up of the organisation in 2017. A lawyer by profession, she is a long-time advocate of women’s human rights and gender equality having worked in various capacities with women’s rights and human rights organisations nationally, regionally and internationally.

Kristi Lynn Huynh

Kristi Huynh is currently the Managing Director of Cathects and has a decade of experience working in global markets across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Through her tenure, Kristi has assembled cross functional teams and companies together to collaborate on various private sector and national infrastructure projects. As a digital aficionado, Kristi helps organizations modernize their IT infrastructure and understand the digital landscape of the next decade. Kristi has previously served on the Boards of Peak4Poverty and VivCorp Group of Companies.

Priya Paul

Priya Paul is a philanthropist and Chairperson, Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels. She has played a significant role in various fields including hospitality, philanthropy, and women’s empowerment. As the Chairperson of Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels (ASPHL), she has overseen the growth of luxury boutique hotels THE Park Hotels and Zone by The Park. Under her leadership, the company has expanded to encompass more than 33 hotels under different brands across India.

In the non-profit domain, she is the Founder Director and was Chair of South Asia Women’s Fund, (now Women’s Fund Asia) and has been on the board of Breakthrough India. She has been a Trustee of the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Board Member of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and is a member of Harvard Business Schools’ South Asia Advisory Board. She sits on numerous corporate boards and the policy body Population Foundation of India.

 Priya Paul has a BA in Economics from Wellesley College. She also completed the Owner President Management Program at Harvard Business School. 

 Priya Paul joined WMF India’s Board of Directors in 2021 and became a member of the WMF Board of Trustees in 2023. She serves on the International Relations Committee.

Joyce Theresa Sunita Vasudevan

Joyce is Co-founder and Corporate Finance Head of Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad, Malaysia and had more than 25 years’ experience in various industries which encompass Fund Raising, Investor Relations, Media Relations, Strategy Development, Operations Planning, Finance, Corporate Finance and Business Planning. Joyce has an Economics and finance background and is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA), Australia.

She has expertise in Fund raising in equity and debt markets, managing local and international acquisitions of assets and other companies, facilitating the preparation of Business Strategy and plans, developing performance measurement systems, financial modelling, assisting in formulation of media and investor relations strategy.

Nachale Boonyapisomparn

Nachale Boonyapisomparn (Hua) is a passionate trans activist and feminist who’s been working on advocacy and research projects for years. With experience as a project coordinator and assistant, she’s played a key role in building strong networks and founding successful support groups for trans and other LGBTQ+ communities.

Hua was the first transgender program supervisor at Sisters, Thailand’s leading trans organization. She also helped found the Foundation of Transgender Alliance for Human Rights (TGA) and the Asia-Pacific Transgender Network (APTN)—all major wins for trans rights and visibility.

Currently, she’s leading as President of Sisters Foundation and Vice-President of the Foundation of Transgender Alliance for Human Rights (ThaiTGA), two of Thailand’s biggest trans-led organizations. In 2024, she also took on the role of Vice-Chair of the ThaiPATH Association, a group dedicated to improving healthcare for trans and gender-diverse people. ThaiPATH brings together healthcare providers and trans advocates to push for better healthcare services and promote inclusive policies.

Ruby Amelia Johnson | Member

Ruby Johnson is a feminist activist, practitioner, and strategist fiercely committed to redistributing resources and power to intersectional social justice movements, in particular working alongside girls and young people. Ruby is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Closer Than You Think, an ideas studio and consultancy collective working at the intersection of activism, philanthropy, and art, having produced work on feminist co-leadership, and narrative change with garment workers. Ruby also leads the Global Resilience Fund at Purposeful, a collaborative fund resourcing girls and young feminists responding to crises. Ruby works as an Independent Consultant providing advice and accompaniment to organizations and funders on strategy, practice, and participation. She has co-written and produced work on movements and meaningful youth participation, including Funders’ Toolkit for Child and Youth Participation, Stories of Girls Resistance and Brave, Creative and Resilient: The Global State of Young Feminist Organizing. Ruby currently sits on the Board of Women Fund Asia, (Australia), is an advisor to Gender and Adolescence Global Evidence (GAGE), and is part of Comic Relief’s Strategic Investment Committee.

Lisa Ellen Pusey | Member

Lisa Pusey has over 20 years experience leading complex gender equality initiatives, in Australia and internationally. Working for six years at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific), Lisa worked closely with women’s rights activists and United Nations expert bodies to advance gender equality.

Lisa was adviser to Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, and worked with her on several major projects during her five years at the Australian Human Rights Commission. She led the National Review into Discrimination in the Workplace (relating to pregnancy, parental leave, and return to work), and key sections of the review into the treatment of women in the Australian Defence Force. Prior to this she worked in the community legal centre sector in Australia. 

She currently works on a range of gender equality initiatives with the Elizabeth Broderick & Co, Champions of Change Coalition and the University of Sydney.  Lisa is a member of the National Women’s Safety Alliance’s Policy and Advocacy Advisory Committee, and Monash University’s Safe and Equal @ Work Advisory Board and is a board member of Women’s Legal Services NSW in addition to her role on the board of Women’s Fund Asia Limited. 

Lay Ean Tan (Honey) | Member

Honey Tan obtained her LLM from the University of Warwick and is a member the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. She practices in the area of high conflict matrimonial law. Honey also engages in public interest litigation, mainly in the areas of equality and non-discrimination. She is recognised as an expert on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Honey regularly conducts workshops for judges, lawyers, and human rights defenders for UN Women on law, equality, and non-discrimination.

Dilani Champika Alagaratnam Goonatilleke | Member

Dilani Alagaratnam LLB. LL.M (Sri Lanka) is an Attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.  Currently, she also chairs the Legislation Sub-committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and  a director of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce-ICLP Alternate Dispute Resolution Centre.  She is a member of the advisory committee of the State-Owned Enterprises Divestiture Unit of the Government of Sri Lanka and performs the role of Ombudsperson for South Asia Gateway Terminals (Pvt) Limited.

She served in many capacities in the John Keells Group of Companies in Sri Lanka, one of the largest diversified conglomerates in Sri Lanka, since joining the Group in 1992. At the time of her retirement from John Keells Holdings PLC, the holding Company of the John Keells Group, in December 2019, she was a member of its Group Executive Committee and had Group level responsibility for the Functions of Legal & Secretarial; Human Resources; Enterprise Risk Management; Sustainability and CSR; Group Sourcing and for the business of John Keells Office Automation.  She has also been a long-standing director of Union Assurance PLC, a large, listed insurance company, and has been a director of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka, which is responsible for implementing all ICT Projects implemented by the Government of Sri Lanka, among the many other directorates she has held. Ms Alagaratnam also held the position of Council Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors and has been a long-standing member of the National Labour Advisory Committee.

She has been recognized as a Career Woman Role Model by Women in Management and as one of the most powerful women in Sri Lanka by the Echelon Magazine.