Rangita De Silva de Alwis, S.J.D. ’97
Associate Dean for International Programs, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Rangita is a women’s human rights scholar and practitioner with expertise in China. She has more than 25 years of experience working globally in over 25 countries. She was the inaugural director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Women’s Leadership Initiative and the Women in Public Service Project launched by Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Seven Sisters Colleges. Rangita was also Teaching Fellow with the European Law Research Institute at HLS and a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, the Women’s Law Association, and EALS.