Salma Yusuf

Salma Yusuf is an International Lawyer and Senior Specialist Consultant on democratisation, governance, peacebuilding, transitional justice, and human rights. She has advised the United Nations, Commonwealth, governments, civil society, academia, and international institutions on policy design, dialogue facilitation, program implementation, and training.

Currently Visiting Professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain, Salma has also taught at universities in Colombo, Sydney, and Northumbria. She led Sri Lanka’s first National Policy on Reconciliation, served as Deputy Director of Law, Policy and Human Rights at the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation, and is a Board Member of the Women Mediators across the Commonwealth Network. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Negotiations, Switzerland. She holds a Master of Laws in Public International Law from Queen Mary University of London and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London. She is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.