Sunayana Sasmal currently serves as a Research Fellow in International Trade Law at the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex.
Previously, she has held research roles with the Indian Government’s trade-advisory think tank Centre for WTO Studies and with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. She has interned at the WTO Legal Affairs Division and has also been a consultant for the World Bank and Tulip Consulting. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, New York, where she was a Jagdish Bhagwati Fellow, and a B.A., LL.B. (International Trade and Investment Law Hons.) from National Law University, Jodhpur. Trade, climate and sustainability interlinkages have been her predominant interests in the recent past.