Sangeetha Iengar

Sangeetha is an award-winning international human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers, a two-time TEDx speaker and a non-resident Senior Scholar at Yale University, as well as a Research Associate at the University of Oxford, on climate-related migration.  She now directs the Institute for Law and Policy on Climate Mobility.  Sangeetha has two decades of experience specialising in asylum, immigration and international human rights matters.  Sangeetha is a thought leader in the fields of global migration, climate and international human rights.

In her practice, Sangeetha specialises in international human rights and public law. She has acted in several landmark cases over the course of her career.  Sangeetha also spent several years living and working ‘on the frontline’ advising on rule of law and justice sector development issues.   Alongside her practice and her academic appointments, Sangeetha also sits as a part-time Judge of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.

Sangeetha is a published writer, having written on a broad range of human rights, rule of law and migration issues. A seasoned public speaker, she regularly gives keynote speeches, appears on the television, radio and in print media as a human rights expert.  Sangeetha’s first TEDx talk is on the erosion of migrant’s rights.  Her second TEDx talk will be on climate mobility.

Sangeetha is currently harnessing her expertise and experience as a seasoned advocate, practitioner, humanitarian, scholar, public speaker and adjudicator to promote a rights-based approach to climate mobility and does so primarily through serving as Director of the Institute for Law and Policy on Climate Mobility at the University of Oxford.