Faculty

Karina Yong is a senior researcher with Third World Network, where she specialises in the impact of investment and trade agreements on human rights and laws and policies in developing and least developed countries. Her work includes analysing the implications of multilateral agreements, UN treaties/conventions, investment treaties and the investment chapters of free trade agreements on human rights such as the right to health, the right to food, indigenous rights and responsible business conduct. Karina was a lead author of the Malaysian Competition Commission’s market review of the pharmaceutical sector which investigated the factors influencing the affordability and availability of medicines in the country. Prior to joining Third World Network, Karina worked as a litigation lawyer where she worked in areas of civil, administrative, constitutional and environmental law.