Dato’ Shyamala Alagendra

Dato’ Shyamala Alagendra (Malaysia) is an international criminal and human rights lawyer with over 26 years of experience, serving as prosecutor, defence counsel, and victims’ representative. She has practised before the International Criminal Court and hybrid tribunals across multiple jurisdictions in high-profile cases involving international crimes, including sexual and gender-based violence and crimes affecting children. She has also served as Senior Adviser to UN investigative and accountability mechanisms, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions in Fiji, and contributed to The Gambia’s Reparations Commission. She is currently Counsel at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.

She has collaborated with Dr Daryn Richter and the Stanford Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab in Sierra Leone, Fiji, Kenya, and The Gambia on the mental health impacts of gross human rights violations and child sexual abuse , including expert evidence and, training and guidance on trauma-informed victim engagement in The Gambia.