Meghna Abraham

Meghna Abraham served as Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and was the founding Chair and President of the Global Detention Project. She is an international human rights lawyer and an expert on economic, social, and cultural rights, and has spent over two decades working with communities to challenge the impact of unjust economic policies across a wide array of issues. She has previously worked with NGOs and academic centres in India, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and worked at Amnesty International for over a decade–including as the Director of Global Issues and Head of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She is a qualified Indian lawyer 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, where she was a Radhakrishnan Chevening Scholar. She is a Fellow of the Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. She was the founding Chair and President of the Global Detention Project Association.