Yuyun Ismawati

Yuyun Ismawati (she/her) is a dedicated Indonesian national with over thirty years of work in advocacy for environmental health and for strong policies on chemicals and waste. She is a co-founder and Senior Advisor of the Nexus3 Foundation, the leading Indonesian public interest organization working to protect people, especially vulnerable populations, from the impacts of development on public health and the environment, towards a future of justice and toxics-free, sustainable living. Her career has been characterized by her insightful and passionate drive to address critical environmental challenges through collaborative approaches and innovative solutions that lead to policy changes. In 2009, she received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her groundbreaking work on reducing pollution and waste, and she is also an Ashoka Fellow and a Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Fellow.