12 Facts About Ambiga Sreenevasan

Ambiga Sreenevasan is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and human rights advocate, and one of eight recipients of the US International Women of Courage Award in 2009.

Ambiga Sreenevasan was the president of the Malaysian Bar Council from 2007 to 2009, and co-chairperson of Bersih, an NGO coalition advocating for free and fair elections.

Ambiga Sreenevasan previously served in the executive committee of the Women's Aid Organisation as well as in the Bar Council Special Committee on the rights of the indigenous Orang Asli people.

Ambiga Sreenevasan is a director of the Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Centre, and has been involved in the preparation and presentation of papers and memoranda on issues relating to the rule of law, the judiciary, the administration of justice, legal aid, religious conversion, and other human rights issues.

Ambiga Sreenevasan graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Exeter in 1979, and was called to the English Bar at Gray's Inn in 1980.

Ambiga Sreenevasan has been a practising advocate and solicitor since March 1982.

Ambiga Sreenevasan had served as the president of Hakam, Malaysia's National Human Rights Society.

Ambiga Sreenevasan chaired Bersih 2.0, the organisation behind the July 2011 rally in Kuala Lumpur that drew 20,000 people.

Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan was appointed to the International Commission of Jurists in 2018.

Ambiga Sreenevasan is a member of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association and was its vice president in 2002.

Ambiga Sreenevasan is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

Ambiga Sreenevasan headed Bersih 2.0, called Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, a citizen's movement for free and fair elections.