CHEE Yoke Ling is the Executive Director of Third World Network (TWN), an international non-profit policy research and advocacy organization with its headquarters in Malaysia. She was trained in law at the University of Malaya, Malaysia (LLB) and University of Cambridge, UK (LLM).
She works on sustainable development issues, with a focus on social justice and equity issues and the effects of globalization on developing countries. Among her current research and advocacy work are issues related to public health systems strengthening (especially access to affordable treatment and antimicrobial resistance), ecological agriculture (especially linkages to biodiversity, climate change impacts and nutrition), and the intersection between gender equality and the Right to Development. She engages in related inter-governmental negotiations and processes at the United Nations and with national policy makers in Malaysia, as well as support policy and law capacity building for civil society organisations.
She was a co-convenor of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine campaign initiated by DAWN and TWN during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a member of the Global Digital Justice Forum and the Global South Coalition for SRHR and Development Justice.
Yoke Ling is currently on the Board of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia-Pacific, and Vice-President of Together Against Cancer (a Malaysian cancer treatment advocacy association).