Priyanthi Fernando
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Executive Director |
| Location | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Introduction | ..has been "working in development" for much too long. Her career seems to have taken a full circle - starting life as a junior researcher at the Marga Institute, Sri Lanka's first Development Studies institute in the mid 1970s even before graduation, and completing ten years as the Executive Director of the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), an independent, Sri Lankan 'think tank' in March 2015, and moving on to head the team at the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The interactions and experiences of over three decades have helped mould her outlook on life and her working and management style. She has worked in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Yemen and Australia and has spent almost ten years in the UK, coordinating an international network. She is passionate about issues of justice and about fighting structural inequalities - whether they be inequalities relating to gender, to knowledge, to access to technology or to poverty and livelihoods. |
| Interests | women's rights, poverty, technology and infrastructure |