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This is Noel Mariam George. I am a research scholar at the LSE International History Department. Before joining LSE, I did my Masters in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and my M. Phil in Political Science at the University of Hyderabad. This training, along with several political changes in India, piqued my research interest in Indian citizenship and refugees. Later, through my engagement with Tibetscapes in IIT Madras, I began to re-work minority histories outside the framework of national citizenship and through the lens of refugees and transregional migration. My current project is a comparative case study of the two largest post-partition refugee communities in India: Tamil ‘repatriates’ from Sri Lanka vis-à-vis Tibetan ‘foreign guests’.  I attempt to decode how refugees tactically emphasize or downplay identities as per the demands of national and local recognition.   I aim to build transferable skills by which, my research is not limited to the confines of academia, but will find real-world applications. 

I am a dual-qualified lawyer, licensed to practice as an advocate in India and as an attorney in New York, United States (admission pending) with a demonstrated interest in environment related international trade law and policy issues. My interests include the role of trade in achieving SDGs, interests and challenges of developing countries in trade and environment issues and the interaction of MEAs and international trade law and policy.  I have previously worked with the Government of India and the World Trade Organization. I have also completed the International Business and Economic Law LL.M. with the WTO and International Trade Studies Certificate at Georgetown University Law Center with distinction and honours.

I am an LL.M. (Master of Laws) candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am a motivated individual with a demonstrated interest in the areas of International Trade Law and Investment Treaty Law (and their linkage with developmental, environmental and human rights studies). Currently, I am an intern at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, where I am updating their investment treaty law databases, to be used to study 'regulatory chill'. I have previously been a research assistant at the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the World Trade Organisation, where I gained significant exposure to matters of trade policy formulation and improvement of international trade law capacities of developing nations. I have also previously interned at the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (established by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Here, I undertook research on the usage of non-WTO law as substantive law before WTO disputes, on the dispute settlement history of various cases before the WTO, on matters of international taxation and on the establishment narrative of globalisation. I was chosen to participate as a youth delegate at the UNCTAD15 Youth Forum. I contributed to the drafting of the UNCTAD Youth Declaration and examined carbon border taxes, from a trade, developmental and environmental perspective. It enhanced my ability to work closely with people from different ethnicities and diverse backgrounds and arrive at mediated solutions accounting for multiple interests.  I am proficient in the usage of MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. I am fluent in English, Hindi and Telugu and possess an intermediate knowledge of French.

I am an international trade and investment law specialist and am passionate about global development through international trade and investment. I aim to contribute meaningfully to these areas of law and policy in leveraging existing a future efforts to the effective realization of development and sustainable development goals. 

Conor Gearty is professor of human rights law at the Department of Law (LSE), and also a practicing barrister at Matrix Chambers which he helped found in 2000. He is a Bencher of both Middle Temple and the King’s Inn, and is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 2021 he was appointed an Honorary Queen's Counsel. He has honorary doctorates from universities in the US, the UK and Ireland. Conor has written many books on civil liberties, human rights and terrorism, the latest of which  On Fantasy Island. Britain, Strasbourg and Human Rights  was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. Recent articles of his have focused on issues related to democracy and human rights. He has been a frequent contributor to the  Guardian  and the   London Review of Books  over the years and is also a regular broadcaster, having hosted his own programmes on Radios 3 and 4. Expertise:  human rights; terrorism; civil liberties