Sumi Dhanarajan is the Associate Director, APAC for Forum for the Future, an international non-profit that works with business, government and civil society to solve complex sustainability challenges. She is an experienced advocate and international development practitioner with expertise on the impacts of the private sector on the environment, poverty reduction and human rights. Previously, she served at Oxfam GB for 10 years as senior policy adviser, then head of the private sector team; and, on moving to Singapore, at the Centre for Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, leading their programme on the Public Roles of the Private Sector. Before embarking on her career in international development, Sumi served as a senior legal adviser to the Secretariat for Legislative Councillors of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, and established the human rights desk for the Malaysian Bar Council. She has served as trustee and board director to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, the Ethical Trading Initiative and the Commonwealth Human Rights Institute and has had various advisory roles including on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights.