Chandra Lekha Sriram
Director
Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
University of East London
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram joined the School of Law at the University of East London in 2005 as its inaugural Professor of Human Rights, when she also founded and directed the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict. As director of the Centre, she raised collaborative grants from the British Academy, the United States Institute of Peace, the Leverhulme Trust, the European Union, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. From 2010-2013, she was Professor of Law at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. She returned to UEL as Professor of International Law and International Relations in 2013, accompanied by colleagues working on her collaborative grant funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in collaboration with Anja Mihr of the University of Utrecht.
Research Interest
She is now the principal investigator on a research project on justice and accountability, gender, and land and property in post-accord Colombia, with Centre co-deputy director Sally Holt.
