Nathalie Gunasekera is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Ms. Gunasekera is a member of the Firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.

Ms. Gunasekera 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 on the Executive Board of Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights, and co-founded the Harvard Central and Southeast Europe Law Students Association.  She further conducted clinical work for the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic on human rights accountability mechanisms of international organizations.

Prior to law school, Ms. Gunasekera worked for global non-governmental organizations as a youth employment advisor in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Western Balkans.  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 Master’s dual degree program in International and World History in 2012.

Ms. Gunasekera is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Publication:

• Author, “The United Nations Must Deliver Long Overdue Remedies for the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Victims of Lead Poisoning in Kosovo,” Harvard Human Rights Journal (2021).