Project Leaders and Advisors
Seminar and Project Director
Rangita de Silva de Alwis ![]() Rangita de Silva de Alwis at the United Nations. |
Global Leaders
- Mary Robinson, first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997)
- Julia Gillard, first woman Prime Minister of Australia (2010-2013)
- Phumzile Mlamabo Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women (2013-present); first woman Deputy President of South Africa (2005-2008)
- Sisi Khampepe, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2009-present)
- Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNSECO (2009-2017)
- Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014)
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Minister of Strategic Affairs, Brazil (2007-2009)
- Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, Perry World House Professor of Practice of Law and Human Rights; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-2018)
- Melanne Verveer, Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; first US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues (2009-2013)
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Nancy Gertner, author of In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate (2011); Judge, US District Court of Massachusetts (1994-2011)
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Hina Jilani, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; first Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders (2000-2008)
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Radhika Coomaraswamy,United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (2006-2012); UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (1994-2003)
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Zainab Bangura,United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
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Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel
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Lubna Olayan, President, Suliman S. Olayan Foundation; CEO and Deputy Chairman, Olayan Financing Company (1986-2019)
Senior Academic Advisors
- Theodore Ruger (Chair), Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
- Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation
- Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
- Regina Austin, William A. Schnader Professor of Law
- Beth Simmons, Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law, Political Science and Business Ethics
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Maggie Blackhawk, Assistant Professor of Law
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Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy; Director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
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Serena Mayeri, Professor of Law and History
- Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
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Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for East Asian Studies
- Amy Gadsden, Associate Vice Provost for Global Initiatives; Executive Director of Penn China Initiatives