Gitanjali Nain Gill

Professor Gitanjali Nain Gill is a tenured full professor of environmental law at the Faculty of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, UK.

Her research interests and published work form a coherent body reflecting the thematic areas including climate change, access to environmental justice with a focus on India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT), land rights, SDGs and sustainability.

Professor Gill is a recipient of prestigious research grants including Responsible AI UK Keystone Project (2024-2028), AHRC BRAID Scoping to Embed Responsible AI in Context (2023); British Academy Grants (2013-16; 2020-2023) on environmental justice in India. In 2022 she was awarded a National Environment Research Council (NERC) Grant on Climate Change and decarbonisation agenda.

Gitanjali was awarded the prestigious Global Initiative of Academic Networks in Higher Education Award (GIAN) by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.

Gitanjali has acted as an international expert to prestigious international organisations including Regional Leader for Asia on Global Climate Litigation at the Sabin Centre Peer Review Network on Climate Change Litigation, Columbia University; and British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London. She has also 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 to the United Nations Expert Consultation Group OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project II.

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