Kriti Sharma is a Research Associate in the Global Health Law and Governance Program at the Centre for International Law. Kriti holds a Bachelors in Law from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (India). She also holds a Dual Masters in International Affairs and Law from Sciences Po and Georgetown University Law Centre (2022). Kriti is a member of the New York State Bar and is qualified in India to practice as a human rights lawyer.
Kriti’s interests are in Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law and Public International Law. During her Master studies, Kriti studied specialized courses, including Indigenous Peoples’ Health, Business and Human Rights and Socio-Economic Rights. She represented Georgetown at the 2022 Clara Barton International Humanitarian Law Competition, where she examined the dilemma of balancing access to health during war. Kriti was awarded the Hardy C. Dillard Award for excellence in memorial writing at the 2019 Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition.
Kriti has worked at the intersection of law and public policy. In particular, in India she worked at the Centre for Policy Research and the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. At Georgetown, she worked as a Research Assistant with TrustAfrica, where she undertook research across varied parameters to study the impact of Covid-19 on law and policy globally. She went on to work at the Georgetown Centre on Poverty and Inequality as a Research Assistant. There, she focused on evaluating socio-economic inequities, including matters such as Black maternal mortality in the United States.
