Neshan Gunasekera, WIJA , is an international lawyer, educationist, leadership coach, facilitator and environmentalist from Sri Lanka. He is currently the CEO, World Future Council and Deputy Chair, Ethics Specialist Group, World Commission on Environmental Law, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). 

Formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden 2023 – 202, Neshan has supported and advised several international organizations including the United Nations Agencies (UN) – Member International Civil Service (2015 – 2022), and IUCN (2010 onwards). During his tenure at the UN, he provided technical guidance to the United Nations on Peace and Governance during 2016-2022, including bringing together all 14 UN Agencies, Government, private and civil society stakeholders under these themes and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Sri Lanka. From 2007 – 2012 he was Director, Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, founded by Late HE Judge C.G. Weeramantry.  

Neshan is engaged by several international organizations, including as Director of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Member, Steering Committee, of the Ecological Law and Governance Association, (ELGA), Co-Chair, Earth Trusteeship Working Group and Firekeeper, World Ethic Forum and Member, Board of Advisors, Climate Rights International. 

In 2020, Neshan was bestowed with The H.E. Judge C.G. Weeramantry International Justice Award for his work for the cause of justice and inclusion of all peoples during and after conflicts, notably in Sri Lanka and the South Asia region through various global, regional and national institutions and his continuing contributions in the areas of peace, conflict transformation and sustainable development.