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Biography

Purna Sen, is the Special Adviser on Working Climate to ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan QC, and Visiting Professor in the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU), at London Metropolitan University. She has worked extensively in the UK and beyond on inequalities and the pursuit of human rights, including as Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where she also taught gender and development, as Head of Human Rights for the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Director for the Asia-Pacific Programme at Amnesty International. Purna most recently (2015-2020) worked at UN Women, initially as Director of the Policy Division and latterly as the Executive Co-ordinator and Spokesperson on addressing sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination.