Meghna Abraham

Meghna Abraham is an international human rights lawyer and expert on economic, social and cultural rights. She has worked with communities in all regions of the world to challenge the negative impacts of economic policies on their lives over the last twenty years. She has led campaigns, undertaken and overseen complex investigations, advocacy, legal analysis, and policy development. She currently advises foundations and NGOs on strategic, legal and policy issues and is also focusing on reparations for harms arising from the climate and biodiversity crises.

She was formerly the Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR). Prior to joining CESR, she worked for Amnesty International for more than a decade, including as the Director of Global Issues, Head of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and Senior Researcher on Corporate Crimes. Meghna has held a range of management roles in other non-governmental organizations, including the Natural Resource Governance Institute, International Service for Human Rights, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, and World Organisation Against Torture. Earlier in her career, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, and Centre for Child and the Law, the National Law School. She has acted as an expert consultant for various NGOs and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Meghna is the Chair of the Board of the Natural Resource Charter Limited and a Fellow of the Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre.

She is an Indian national who holds a BA LLB (Hons) degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and BCL and MPhil in Law degrees from the University of Oxford.

Twitter: @meghnaabraham