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From 1 Sept 2020: Senior Legal Advisor #project finance #sustainability with #Norinchukin Bank NV, Netherlands
Roster Expert on #land rights & #indigenous rights with the Independent Redress Mechanism of the Green Climate Fund
Passionate about applying her skills and experience to make a positive societal difference.
Kinnari Bhatt is an English qualified solicitor, project finance lawyer and legal consultant with a PhD in the field of law and development finance, She is widely published and the author of the book 'Concessionaire, Financiers and Communities: Implementing Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects' (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Kinnari has years of private practice experience advising commercial and development banks, ECAs, companies and governments on the drafting, and negotiation of high value contracts for infrastructure and natural resource projects as well as in-house general commercial law experience. Kinnari worked on a World Bank/DFID project as a senior lawyer advising the government of Sierra Leone on the drafting and implementation of environmental and social regulations and land policy for the mining sector. She has lectured and developed post-graduate modules on the legal aspects of international finance, project finance, contract, tort, international trade law and business and human rights issues. She sits as co vice-chair of a UK based human rights association.
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Publications (21)
- Industry and Infrastructure Save
- Where are all the T-Shaped International Lawyers?: Thoughts on Critical Teaching from a Practitioner’s Perspective Save
- Pricing for Poverty Save
- Preface Save
- Negotiating Land Outcomes Save
- Moving Forward Save
- Index Save
- Development Projects, Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights and Rights Implementation Save
- Characteristics of Indigenous Peoples and Development Projects Save
- Bridging the Gap through the Elephant in the Room? Save