Pearl Pandya is the South Asia Assistant Research Manager at ACLED. She joined the organisation in February 2022, as an India Researcher. She has an undergraduate degree in law from King’s College London and a master’s in public international law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She previously worked as a consultant with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York and as a legislative assistant to a Member of Parliament (India) in New Delhi.