Nathalie Gunasekera is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.
Nathalie served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allison D. Burroughs of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 2024 to 2025. She received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2021. While in law school, she served as an online articles editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, was a member of the Executive Board of Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights, and co-founded the Harvard Central and Southeast Europe Law Students Association. She was also a student attorney in the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic, where she focused on access to remedies for human rights violations and accountability mechanisms for international organizations in Haiti and Kosovo.
Prior to law school, Nathalie worked for global non-governmental organizations as a youth employment and private sector development advisor in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo, Lebanon, Malawi, and Nigeria, among other countries. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of St Andrews in 2010 and graduated with distinction from the Columbia University and London School of Economics dual master’s degree program in International and World History in 2012.
Nathalie is admitted to practice in the states of Massachusetts and New York.
Publication:
- The United Nations Must Deliver Long Overdue Remedies for the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Victims of Lead Poisoning in Kosovo, Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (2021).
Capabilities
- Litigation
- Geopolitical Strategy and International Law
- International Arbitration
- Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement
- Securities Litigation
- Transnational Litigation
- Trials
Credentials
Education:
- Harvard University - 2021 Juris Doctor
- London School of Economics & Political Science - 2012 Master of Science
- Columbia University - 2011 Master of Arts
- University of St Andrews - 2010 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- Massachusetts Bar
- New York Bar
Clerkships:
- USDC, Massachusetts, Hon. Allison D. Burroughs, 2024 - 2025