Kevin Chang is Senior Advisor to International IDEA’s Myanmar Programme, where he provides strategic advice to programme design and implementation through capacity building, contextual analysis and stakeholder engagement with Myanmar’s key democratic actors, CSOs and international organisations. He also supports International IDEA's Asia-Pacific Regional Programme. Kevin teaches as an Associate Professor in International Law at National Chengchi University, and is an Honorary Associate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.  

Kevin has more than two decades’ experience serving the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Australian Government, and various international organisations as an experienced advisor on legal and justice sector reform, human rights and post-conflict democratic transition. He has served the UN under peacekeeping, development and humanitarian mandates across Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, including UNDP in Myanmar, Nepal, Timor-Leste and Ethiopia, the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan, and UNHCR in Pakistan. He has also served at headquarters in Geneva (UNDP), Rome (WFP) and Paris (UNESCO). 

Kevin has worked in various roles in the Australian Government, most recently as Acting Director of Human Rights Policy at the Federal Attorney-General’s Department, Investigator with the Australian Human Rights Commission, and was a junior expert outposted to the Fijian Government. Kevin is a lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, and is a qualified mediator and an investigator for human rights and war crimes.