Golda Benjamin

Campaigner for Asia-Pacific, Access Now

Golda is Access Now’s campaigner for Asia-Pacific. She previously worked with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre as Programme Director for Asia, Labour, and Corporate Legal Accountability. Having started as a grassroots lawyer for farmers and workers, Golda has shaped her work via litigation, policy advocacy, and campaigning. She has worked on issues involving international trade, human rights defenders, tax justice, tobacco control, land rights, and corporate legal accountability. Her government experience includes serving as chief for legislation for a senator and legal consultant to a head of the agrarian reform department of the Philippines. Golda holds a masters degree on international commercial arbitration law from Stockholm University and is a licensed attorney.