Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a widely recognized international women’s rights expert and legal scholar. After earning her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1997, Rangita de Silva de Alwis went on to build a distinguished 30-year career as a global women’s rights expert and legal scholar. An academic and lawyer, she began her legal studies with an LLB from the University of Colombo in 1991, followed by her LL.M in 1994 from Harvard Law School.
She has advised UNICEF, UN Women, UNFPA, and UNDP on state accountability under human rights treaties, and has been recognized with the Austrian Justicia award, honored by Harvard Law School as a Woman Inspiring Change in 2015, and received the Outstanding American by Choice award from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2010.