Nursyahbani (Nur) is a native of Jakarta and is currently the chair of Board of Directors of Indonesian Legal Aid Association for Women and also serves as chair of Board of Trustees of Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, a leading women and human rights organization in Indonesia. She was the country prosecutor of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (2000), General Coordinator of The International Tribunal of 1965 Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2015) and a member of the panel of judges at the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Myanmar (2017). Nur served as a member of People Consultative Assembly (1999-2004) and was elected a Member of Parliament (2004-2009) in Indonesia. She directed Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (1980-1993) and was president of Indonesian Environmental Forum (WALHI). Nur was commissioner of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (1998-2004) and the first secretary general of the Indonesia Women's Coalition for Justice and Democracy (1998-2003), the first women's mass organization having a LGBT section. She was also a member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development (2013-2015). She was an active member of the Board of Directors with Sexual and Bodily Rights Coalition in Moslem Society based in Jordan (2007-2014). In 2011, Nur co-founded Partnership for Good Governance, and chaired its executive board until 2013. She is a consultant on the women's legal rights and has been involved in several fact-finding teams on human rights violation during Soeharto era. She was also a newspaper columnist and had published 5 books on legal and violence against women issues and implementation of CEDAW. She published articles and book chapters and presented research papers at international and national conferences. Her essay entitled "Indonesia in the Grip of Fundamentalism: Legal Issues and Women Movement Responses" was published in The Future of Asian Feminism in Confronting Fundamentalism, Conflicts and Neo-Liberalism (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2012). Nur's essay "The Implementation on Domestic Violence Act in Indonesia" appeared in the "Family Ambiguity and The Domestic Violence in Asia (Sussex Academic Press, 2013). She co-authored Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia (Sussex Academic Press, 2015), Creeping Criminalization of LGBT in Indonesia (OutRight International 2017), Propaganda and Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil (Routledge 2018). For her commitment and work, she was nominated as one of A Thousand Noble Prize (2006). In 2007 and 2008, GLOBE ASIA magazine put Nur as number 51 of 99 powerful women in Indonesia. Nur graduated from the Law Faculty of Airlangga University (1978) where she specialized in criminal law (1979). She holds post graduate diplomas in international comparative sexual orientation law from Leiden University (2012) and in bridging the research-policy divide from the National Centre of Epidemiology of Australian National University (2012). In July 2019, she was granted an honorary doctorate from SOAS of London University for her long standing work on human rights and feminism.