Ereshnee Naidu is the Senior Director for the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and, Reconciliation (GIJTR), ICSC’s flagship program on transitional justice. Ereshnee has over twenty years of experience designing and implementing community outreach strategies and programs in critical post-conflict settings that include South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, and Colombia, among many others. She is a seasoned educator with extensive curriculum and workshop design experience, and has broad content development, training, and facilitation skills.

A thought leader and global transitional justice practitioner, Ereshnee pioneered ICSC’s work in transitional justice in 2014 with the founding of GIJTR, which under her stewardship has worked with partners in 76 countries, fostered over 463 grassroots projects, and engaged more than 760 local civil society organizations in building capacities and laying the groundwork for community-wide participation in transitional justice processes. 

Ereshnee earned her Bachelor of Arts and two Masters of Arts degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, the first in Dramatic Arts (1998) and the second in Forced Migration Studies (2004). She subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.