It is our pleasure to introduce our new contributor Ananya Mukherjee. Ananya is an India qualified lawyer and a graduate from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. She has 4 years of professional work experience working on corporate laws, M&A, PE & VC deals in India, and currently works at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements on higher education policy in India. She is actively interested in fields of international criminal law, international environmental law, human rights and policy. She is also a trained negotiator and mediator from ADR Group UK and an incoming MPA student at Columbia University, New York. Previously she was a Public Policy Scholar with the Global Governance Initiative and enjoys spending her weekends working with leading Indian NGO’s such as Udayan Care towards helping young women achieve their professional potential. Outside of the work space, she enjoys painting, is a trained Scuba Diver and mentors young lawyers in India in navigating the domestic and international legal and policy space.

Heartfelt welcome!