Timothy Ryan

Timothy (Tim) Ryan (b. United Kingdom, February 5, 1956) was the Asia Regional Program Director for Solidarity Center, based in Washington between 2001 and his retirement in 2021. In this position, he oversaw all Solidarity Center programmes for Asia, including offices in Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam, with regional programmes in India, Nepal, Philippines, and the Maldives. Between 2005 and 2011, Timothy also directed the European department covering offices and programs in Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He spent eight years in Asia as the Solidarity Center’s Country Program Director for Sri Lanka (1993-97) and Indonesia (1997-2001), working on organising export processing zones, migrant worker issues, and in India and Pakistan his work was focused on developing programmes to combat child labour. In Indonesia he focused on trade union organising, policy advocacy training for unions, labour law reform, legal aid for fired and imprisoned union activists, promoting policy and legal advocacy for migrant workers and child labourers, voter education, get-out-the-vote programmes, and long-term election monitoring.