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Professor Gitanjali Nain Gill (Gita Gill) is a tenured full professor of environmental law at the Northumbria School of Law, 51±¬ÁÏ, UK. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Her research interest and published work in leading peer-reviewed journals forms a coherent body reflecting the thematic issues including access to environmental justice, climate change, biodiversity, land rights, SDGs and sustainability with a focus on India.

Professor Gill is a receipient of prestigious research grants including Responsible AI UK Keystone Project (2024-2028), AHRC BRAID Scoping to Embed AI in Context (2023), British Academy Grants (2013-16; 2020-2023); and?NERC Grant on climate change and UK's Decarbonisation Agenda (2022)

She has acted as an expert academic advisor to prestigious international organisations including the Sabin Centre Peer Review Network on Climate Change Litigation (National Rapporteur on India's Climate Change Litigation), Columbia Law School, New York. She has provided intellectual and disciplinary expertise by identifying and contributing specialised environmental courts and tribunals best practices, these being particularly instructive for the global south, to the United Nations Environment Programme (2016 and 2022)and the United Nations Expert Consultation Group OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project 11.

Through awareness and capacity-building empowerment programmes, Gita's action research helps build coalitions, trust and confidence between Indian NGOs and marginalised communities to support victims of environmental degradation.

Presently, her research is focusing on menstrual waste, law and sustainability in India.

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