Mahdev Mohan – Co-Founder and Director, Access to Justice Asia

Mahdev Mohan teaches Public International Law at the Singapore Management University’s School of Law. A former Fulbright scholar, Mahdev’s research in the fields of international law, genocide studies and conflict resolution has been awarded Stanford University’s Carl Mason Franklin Jr. Prize for International Law and the Richard S. Goldsmith Research Grant for International Conflict and Negotiation. Mahdev’s international human rights litigation and civil society initiatives have earned him Singapore’s Outstanding Young Person Award for Contributions to Peace & Human Rights.

Vinita Ramani Mohan – Co-Founder and Director, Access to Justice Asia

Vinita Ramani Mohan is an editor and writer. She was the Asian Scholarship Foundation’s 2007 ASIA Fellow and has spent the past three years researching and writing on memory and identity. She received a full scholarship from the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce to pursue a BA (Hons) degree in interdisciplinary studies focusing on identity and difference from Trent University (Canada). Vinita has a M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK) in South Asian Studies, focusing on ethnic minorities and the law. She formerly worked as a journalist and researcher on music, cinema and history with various institutions across North America and Asia.

Megan Karsh – Senior Associate, Law and Transitional Justice Unit

Megan is currently serving as a legal fellow and lecturer at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, as well as being a pro bono AJA Legal Associate. A licensed attorney in the United States, Ms. Karsh has experience working with impact litigation and restorative justice initiatives in Namibia, the United States and Uganda. She earned her J.D. at Stanford Law School, where she was a Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict Negotiation.

Delphia Lim – Senior Associate, Law and Transitional Justice Unit

Delphia is AJA’s pro bono Associate and an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and is a litigation associate at Drew & Napier LLC. She was also a trial monitor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) with the Asian International Justice Initiative from June to September 2009. She is a graduate of the National University of Singapore’s law school.

Geetanjali Mukherjee – Associate, Law and Transitional Justice Unit

Geetanjali holds a degree in law from the University of Warwick, UK and a Masters in Public Policy from Cornell University, with a concentration in human rights and social justice. Her research interests merge international human rights policies with economic development, with a specific focus on genocide and ethnic conflict, its causes, prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding. Geetanjali received the Everett Public Service Fellowship in 2008 to work with the Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, on post-conflict transition issues in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. She is also a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, national honor society for public affairs and administration.

Jenny Holligan – Associate, Law and Transitional Justice Unit

Jenny currently works as a Legal Associate for AJA based in Phnom Penh where she is involved in direct impact litigation at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal on behalf of AJA’s Khmer Krom Civil Parties. She is also KAS-SMU Researcher at the Asian Peace-building & Rule of Law Program run through Singapore Management University’s School of Law. A qualified lawyer from Scotland, Jenny has worked in the Office of the Co-Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the Home Office in London and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in Ghana.

Shirany Sinnathamby – Associate, Law and Transitional Justice Unit

Shirany Sinnathamby is a Pro Bono Associate with AJA based in Sri Lanka and a Researcher at a multi party political dialogue called the ‘One Text Initiative’, Sri Lanka. She received a full scholarship from the Indian Council for Culture and Relations in collaboration with the Ministry of High Education, Sri Lanka to follow a B.A, LL.B (Hons) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She also holds an Attorney-at- Law from the Sri Lanka Law College. Shirany received the NOMA fellowship by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to pursue a Masters in Political Science at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sarah Shi – Research Associate, Law and Transitional Justice Unit

Sarah is a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore. In her personal capacity, she is a pro bono Research Associate with AJA. She read law at the University of Oxford on the Public Service Commission Overseas Merit Scholarship (Legal Service). There, she completed both the B.A. in Jurisprudence and the Bachelor of Civil Law, winning the John Morris Prize for Conflict of Laws. After finishing her studies, she did an internship with a local NGO in Sri Lanka from July to September 2010.

Joel Ng – Senior Associate, Policy and Governance Unit

Joel Ng is a Senior Analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University working on non-traditional security issues, particularly energy and natural resource security, internal conflict and civilian protection. He completed his MA in Conflict, Security & Development at the University of Sussex and BA in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He formerly worked in Uganda on refugee and IDP legal protection issues during the northern Uganda conflict and Singapore in public and investor relations. Joel is principal research co-ordinator for the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN’s Rule of Law Project.

Tsai Lan Shiow – Associate, Policy and Governance Unit

Lan Shiow is a KAS-SMU Research Fellow at the Asian Peace-building & Rule of Law Program at the Singapore Management University’s School of Law. She has a B.A. from Brown University in International Relations, with a focus on Global Security. She has had internship experiences at Human Rights Watch, the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore Institute of International Affairs and the Institute of Policy Studies. Lan Shiow conducted independent research on international responses to crimes against humanity while based in Geneva. She is research co-ordinator for the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN’s Rule of Law Project.

Former Associates & Interns

Cambodia

  • Heang Chansoneang
  • Bunthon Hin
  • Sotheary Hun
  • Vidjia Phun
  • Theara Pon
  • Son Sokeng
  • Sophy Thou

Singapore

  • Sopheara Hun
  • Pamela Yeo
  • Sangeeta Yogendran
  • Vani Sathisan

International

  • Sokun Bobson
  • Suzanne Innes-Kent
  • Jessica Mar
  • Justin Min
  • Lyma Nguyen
  • Audrey Roelandt
  • Rothany Srun