Meghna Abraham

Meghna Abraham is the Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR).  She is an international human rights lawyer and expert on economic, social, and cultural rights. She has a track-record of enabling organisations to develop new and innovative areas of research and advocacy and impactful national, regional, and global campaigns. Meghna has spent over two decades working with communities to challenge the impact of unjust policies across a wide array of issues. These have included the provision of public services, abusive supply chains, development and extractive projects. Her work has a strong focus on multiple forms of inequality and discrimination, on strengthening accountability of state and non-state actors, and has spanned all regions of the world.

Meghna has held a range of management posts in non-governmental organizations and supervised diverse teams of lawyers, policy advisers, researchers, campaigners, and advocates. She was employed at Amnesty International for over a decade in various roles including the Director of Global Issues and Deputy Director/Head of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She has also worked at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, International Service for Human Rights, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, World Organisation Against Torture, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, and Centre for Child and the Law at the National Law School of India University. She has been an expert consultant for various NGOs and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights providing them with strategic or legal and policy advice.

She is a qualified Indian lawyer who holds a BA LLB (Hons) degree from the National Law School of India University and BCL and MPhil in Law degrees from the University of Oxford. She is the Chair of the board of the Natural Resources Charter Limited and a Fellow of the Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre.

Twitter: @meghnaabraham