Tulika Srivastava

Tulika Srivastava is a seasoned feminist leader and human rights practitioner with extensive experience spanning grassroots engagement, legal advocacy, and international policy frameworks. Her work bridges local realities with global discourse, with a strong focus on advancing women’s and trans* rights through an equity and justice lens.

She has worked across the Global South, including in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, undertaking long-term assignments with a range of regional and international organizations.

Tulika currently serves as the Executive Director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP). Prior to this, she led Women’s Fund Asia as Executive Director for over a decade, where she guided key institutional transitions and advanced a shift from the politics of resources to a framework of resource justice. She has also served as Co-Chair of Prospera, the International Network of Women’s Funds.

Her expertise includes treaty negotiations and international advocacy, with contributions to processes related to CEDAW, ICC, and ICESCR. She has also supported civil society engagement with UN treaty bodies through the Global to Local programme.

Tulika began her career as a litigator at the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) before working with rural women through Mahila Samakhya and co-founding AALI (Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives), the first feminist advocacy organization in Uttar Pradesh, which presently works across the Hindi belt, undertaking litigation, rights advocacy, capacity building, and research. .

She is deeply interested governance as a politically substantive process, and is committed to bringing a feminist, human rights lens to this work. In addition to her executive role, she currently serves on several Boards of Directors, to follow through on her vision of advancing accountable governance.

She is known for her strategic leadership, deep political analysis of power and resources and her commitment to building sustainable, collective institutional processes.