Ivy N Josiah is a women’s rights advocate, a gender consultant and trainer. She has a background in women’s human rights addressing multiple forms of discrimination against women and has conducted trainings in over 15 countries.
Currently, Ivy is a non- Executive Director of the International Women’s Development Agency, Australia (IWDA) and a member of the Programme & Management Committee of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development (APWLD), Thailand.
She was recently appointed as Co-Chair of Urgent Action Fund, Asia and Pacific.
As a member of Five Arts Centre she has taken on the role of Producer for several Five Arts Centre productions and projects.
Ivy is the former President and Executive Director of Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO), where over 20 years she developed WAO’s shelter services and advocacy strategies for law and policy reform. WAO opened Malaysia’s first shelter for survivors of domestic violence in 1982.
