Dr. Vasudevan Tiruchelvam is a surgeon based in Pennsylvania, United States and he is the younger brother of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam.
Nirgunan Tiruchelvam is an equity analyst with over 20 years of experience in emerging markets and is the elder son of Neelan Tiruchelvam.
Mithran Tiruchelvam is an attorney and the younger son of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam
Radhika Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan lawyer and human rights advocate who has held prominent roles, including serving as the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. She co-founded the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and has been involved in various international missions, including a UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.
Henry J. Steiner is the Emeritus Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor at Harvard Law School. His research interests concern issues of human rights and international law. He is the founder of the Human Rights Program (HRP) at Harvard Law School.
Mathiaparanan Abraham Sumanthiran is a distinguished Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician who has served as a Member of Parliament for the Jaffna District since 2015. Renowned for his expertise in civil litigation, human rights, and constitutional law, he is a prominent advocate for justice and legislative reform in Sri Lanka.
Jayadeva Uyangoda is a prominent Sri Lankan political scientist and constitutional expert, currently serving as a professor at the University of Colombo. A former leftist student leader and JVP member, he is known for his extensive work on ethnic conflict, human rights, and constitutional reform in Sri Lanka.
Rohan Edrisinha is the founder and head of the Legal Division at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, where he focuses on conflict resolution, constitutional reform, and human rights.
Pradeep Jeganathan is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
Chandrika Kumaratunga is a prominent Sri Lankan politician who served as the country's fourth executive president from 1994 to 2005. She is Sri Lanka's first and only female president and was the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party until the end of 2005.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is the current President of Sri Lanka and has also held multiple ministerial roles, including Finance, Defence, Technology, and Women, Child Affairs, and Social Empowerment. Leader of the United National Party since 1994, he has served as Prime Minister on five occasions, overseeing six different governments.
Rajavarothiam Sampanthan was a distinguished Sri Lankan politician and lawyer who led the Tamil National Alliance from 2001 until his death. Serving as a Member of Parliament intermittently from 1977 to 1983, 1997 to 2000, and continuously from 2001, he was also the Leader of the Opposition from September 2015 to December 2018.
Gamini Lakshman Peiris is a Sri Lankan politician and academic. Under the Kumaratunga government, Peiris served as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
Dr. Arum Kandiah is an expert in the field of agriculture and was a fellow classmate of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam.
Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and serves on the Foreign Policy Advisory Group and the Board of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International and Strategic Studies.
Godfrey Gunatilleke is a prominent Sri Lankan intellectual who played a key role in founding the Marga Institute, while also influencing UN development policies through his unique insights on Sri Lanka’s development experience.
Devanesan Nesiah is a former Sri Lankan civil servant.
Vasuki Nesiah is a distinguished scholar at NYU Gallatin, where she teaches human rights, legal, and social theory and directs the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights. An acclaimed author and co-editor, she has received notable awards for her work and continues to influence global legal and feminist scholarship through her research and involvement in various international academic and advisory roles.
Sharika Thiranagama, a political anthropologist at Stanford University, is the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist Rajani Thiranagama, who was murdered by the LTTE in 1989.
Sakuntala Kadirgamar is the Executive Director of the Law and Society Trust.
Mario Gomez is the current Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
Malathi de Alwis was a Sri Lankan anthropologist who taught at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Colombo. Her research focused on militarism, nationalism, and feminism.
Ramani Muttettuwegama is a legal partner at Tiruchelvam Associates.
Jonathan Spencer has conducted fieldwork in Sri Lanka since the early 1980s, initially focusing on rural change and local politics, and more recently on ethnic conflict and political violence.
Jayampathy Wickramaratne is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician who served as a national list member of Parliament representing the United National Party from 2015. He has held significant roles including Director of Programs at the Institute of Constitutional Studies, Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, and was a key figure behind the proposed 2018 Sri Lankan constitution.
Jehan Perera is executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, an independent advocacy organization.
Steve Kanter is Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Alongside Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam, Kanter played an instrumental role in the formulation of the draft constitution for Kazakhstan.
Larry Garber is an independent consultant with over 35 years of experience in international development, human rights, democracy, and election-related work.
Kenneth Wollack is the chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and a member of the George W. Bush Institute’s Advisory Council on Human Freedom. A former president of the National Democratic Institute, Wollack has dedicated over five decades to advancing democracy globally, including serving as co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates for the 2020 election.
Veerasingham Anandasangaree is a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament who led the Tamil United Liberation Front. Renowned for his critical stance on violence from all parties, he advocates for a federalist solution akin to India's to address Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
Alan Phillips was appointed as executive director of Minority Rights Group (MRG) International in 1989 and worked with Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam while he was a member of the organization.
Claire Thomas is currently the co-executive director of Minority Rights Group International and worked alongside Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam during his time as a member of the organization.
Teresita Schaffer served as the United States' former ambassador to Sri Lanka from 1992 to 1995.
Manicavasagar Eelaventhan was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.
Ignacius Lokanathan is a Tamil journalist who spent significant time writing about the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
Erik Solheim, a Norwegian diplomat and former politician, played a pivotal role in Sri Lanka's peace process as a special adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was part of the Norwegian delegation seeking to resolve the Sri Lankan Civil War. His efforts included working towards a peaceful resolution before the outbreak of Eelam War IV, reflecting his commitment to conflict resolution and international diplomacy.