Patricia Gossman is senior associate director for the Asia division of Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining HRW, Dr. Gossman was Director of the Afghanistan Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice and was the founder and director of the Afghanistan Justice Project, an Open Society Foundation-funded project to document war crimes committed during the Afghanistan conflict, 1978-2001. She was Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch in the 1990s, covering Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Dr. Gossman received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is widely published on human rights issues in the region.

Keith B. Richburg is a member of the Editorial Board and a Global Opinions columnist for The Washington Post.  A veteran reporter and foreign correspondent for The Post for over 35 years, he has served in bureaus in Asia, Africa and Europe, and was the paper's Foreign Editor. He is the author of Out of America; A Black Man Confronts Africa and currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ambika Satkunanathan is a human rights advocate based in Sri Lanka. From 2015 to 2020, she was a Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, where she led the first ever national study of prisons. Prior to that, for 8 years, she was a Legal Advisor to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is a member of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Torture, the Executive Council of the World Organisation Against Torture, the Membership Council of Penal Reform International, the Network of Experts of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime and the Steering Committee of the Just Futures Collaborative. 

Ambika was an Open Society Fellow from 2020-22. She has a B.A. and LL.B from Monash University Australia and a LL.M from University of Nottingham, where she was a Chevening Scholar.