Ramona Vijeyarasa

Ramona Vijeyarasa is the Chief Investigator behind the Gender Legislative Index, a tool designed to promote the enactment of legislation that works more effectively to improve women’s lives. Her work innovatively combines law, engineering and data science to reinvigorate decades-long debates about the law’s role in addressing gender inequality. A Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Juris Doctor Program Head at the University of Technology Sydney and a 2020-2022 Women's Leadership Institute Australia Research Fellow, she is author of The Woman President: Leadership, law and legacy for women based on experiences from South and Southeast Asia (OUP, 2022), editor of International Women’s Rights Law and Gender Equality: Making the law work for women (2021) and author of Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Women: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims (2015). Ramona’s research is informed by a decade working in civil society.