Zainab Lokhandwala is a former Associate Editor (Central & South Asia) at Fair Observer. She works as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Regulatory Studies, Governance and Public Policy (CRSGPP) at the National University for Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, India. She has completed her Bachelors from ILS Law College, Pune, India and Maters in International & Comparative Law at NUJS. At CRSGPP Zainab has worked on evaluating and framing policies for the West Bengal government in the environmental, education, administrative and labour sectors. She is interested in environmental studies, international law and diplomacy.