Shuma Talukdar
Shuma Talukdar is a Corporate Lawyer and a Corporate Governance Professional from India. She is the Director of LexEd Research an independent think-tank. She is also a Ph.D. Research Scholar (Law), Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. She holds professional membership of the Bar Council of India. Her research interests include the intersectionality of gender, climate, business, and law. Her scholarly publications include an edited volume Judicial Responses to Climate Change in the Global South: A Jurisdictional & Thematic Review (Switzerland: Springer, 2023) and papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. She has also published in popular media and presented at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: India/North-East India, climate justice, gender, indigenous environmental justice, sustainability law