Rangita De Silva-De Alwis

Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a globally recognized international women’s rights expert and a member of the treaty body to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Women, Peace and Security Focal Point. At the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she is Associate Dean of International Affairs, she teaches International Women’s Rights; Women, Law, and Leadership; and the Policy Lab, including the Policy Lab on AI and Bias, and directs the Global Institute for Human Rights. She also leads the Advancing Inclusive Leadership (AIL) program. She taught Women, Peace and Security at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2022-2023) and Globalization and Human Rights at Wharton (2023-2024). She will be at the Oxford Bonovero Institute of human Rights in the Trinity Term 2024.