Bonny Ling

Executive Director, Work Better Innovations; Co-Founder, Taiwan Project for Business and Human Rights; Trustee, IHRB

Bonny is a practitioner and scholar who works on international human rights and development, with experience working in the UN system and international civil society. Bonny is Executive Director of Work Better Innovations, a social enterprise with a community service mission to build an inclusive and sustainable economy.

Bonny co-founded the Taiwan Project for Business and Human Rights and teaches business and human rights at the School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and at the University of Bergen. Based in the UK, she is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham Taiwan Research Hub and serves on the Board of the Southeast and East Asian Centre.

Bonny wrote her PhD in Law on human trafficking and China at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Her book chapter on the Abolition of Slavery in China has been published in a volume of studies in global slavery (Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900). She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (Criminology) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

In 2024, she received the Fletcher Women’s Leadership Award for contributions to global affairs in the private sector. She is a Truman Scholar, Gates Cambridge Fellow and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, which recognises the contributions made by immigrants to American life.