Cynthia Gabriel, is a trailblazer and key advocate of human rights and good governance in Malaysia.

She has degrees in both science and law and brings two decades of experience to the field of governance, the rule of law and anti- corruption knowledge.

Cynthia has been honored with a seat on the prestigious Global Future Councils Advisory Body of the World Economic Forum (WEF), on good governance for the term 2019-2020 and 2023 – 2024. She also serves as a consultant to the Center for International Private Enterprise working on corporate accountability and with the United Nations on anti- corruption projects.

In 2022, Cynthia was conferred the prestigious global “anti-corruption champion” award, by US Secretary Anthony Blinken, and subsequently selected to address the high-level panel on the Summit for Democracy

in South Korea to address complex financial transparency issues to pave a global framework to combat transnational crime and corruption.
She was invited by the UN General Assembly President, to address the first UNGASS on Anti-Corruption at the UN General Assembly in 2021, among the many high profile acknowledgements.

In 2020, she also received a meritorious award from the King of Malaysia, for her monumental efforts at striving for accountability and anti corruption over the years.

Cynthia was also included in her alma matter’s hall of fame, as respected and exemplary former student of the Assunta School, one of the most respectable schools in the country.

She served as former Vice Chair of the international UNCAC Coalition and is Founding Director of the Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (C4 Center). She was also part of the founders of FORUM Asia the leading human rights organization in Asia, and continues efforts at the regional level to lead strong advocacy reform initiatives on transnational crime and corruption, political finance, whistleblower protection and corporate accountability.