Soma Roy Chowdhury

Soma Roy Chowdhury is a lawyer and legal and governance expert with over 18 years experience in Access to Justice especially in the areas of Legal Aid, Criminal Justice, Workers Rights, Gender, Policy Advocacy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research, Capacity Building and Public Interest Litigation (PIL). She brings substantial senior management experience (serving as the National Program Coordinator for GBP12 m Community Legal Services Program in Bangladesh involving travel to remote and uncharted areas across the country working with marginalized groups in diverse demographic settings).

Soma has an impressive track record of building the capacities of legal aid NGOs and other stakeholders in the justice sector. She has provided numerous trainings on gender and human rights to raise legal awareness and establishing strong networking with government officials, justice and security actors and authored a number of research studies and reports.

She qualified as a lawyer in India and obtained a Master of Laws, specializing in Dispute Resolution and Corporate Governance, with Distinction from Bond University, Australia. She enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of West Bengal, India in August 2000.