The Asia and the Pacific Regional Seminar on the Contribution of Development to

Rineeta Naik is Human Rights and Development lead at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Southeast Asia Regional Office. She began her career as a journalist with the Indian Express in Mumbai, India. This was followed by a 10-year stint at the South Asia... Read More →

Dr Manoni is the Deputy Secretary General of PIF since 2020. He has held the position of International Legal Adviser since the latter part of 2018 – and has been responsible for providing legal policy advice and analysis on regional issues covered by the Secretariat.Prior to joining... Read More →

Heike Alefsen has 30 years of human rights, legal, political and development work experience with the United Nations, the Council of Europe and civil society.   As OHCHR Pacific Regional Representative since October 2020, she heads a Regional Office based in Suva, Fiji, covering... Read More →

Jonathan Gilman, a British national, is Regional Development Coordinator for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Asia Pacific Office based in Bangkok. Jonathan has worked with the UN for 19 years. He has worked at the HQs level with UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy... Read More →

Yuyun is currently the Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), 2019-2021. She obtained her MA on Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand (2007) and now finalising PhD at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS... Read More →

Nadia has a PhD in American Studies from King’s College London where her academic interests centered on race and popular culture in a contemporary context. Prior to joining IWRAW Asia Pacific, she worked as an independent rapporteur and researcher and collaborated with local and... Read More →