Dr Garima Dadhich, Associate Professor with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). She is heading the School of Business Environment / National Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (NFCSR) and Centre for Business and Human Rights at IICA. She has also worked as Assistant Professor of Law at National Law University Jodhpur for five years and has taught several courses under corporate and commercial laws. She has 16 plus years of rich experience in academia, industry and development sector.

At IICA, she has provided end-to-end support to organisations for effectively executing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects and has executed several CSR project Assessments and CSR Project Monitoring for Public and Private Companies. She has trained various Directors/Independent Directors from various Public Sector Units and Private Companies for improving board effectiveness and governance of CSR.

She has been instrumental in co-creating an enabling environment in the country for promotion of the Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG), Business and Human Rights (BHR) and other such aspects in Corporate Sustainability. Various initiatives such as development of industry sector specific guidelines for adaptation of NGRBCs, development of Partnership guidelines etc. have recently been initiated by her.

She is a regular faculty for the programmes on business laws, corporate governance, Corporate Social Responsibility for Ministry Officials and Corporate Executives. She has undertaken various Research Projects for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and has provided policy support to the Government. She is also member of various Expert/Advisory committee of Government of India and other national and international bodies.

She is a certified trainer on "Managing Disputes and Difficult Conversations on the Board" by Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). She completed her LLB from ILS Law College, Pune and Masters Programme in Commercial and Corporate Laws from Queen Mary University of London, UK. She has obtained an “International Legal English Certificate” from University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research concentrates on Corporate Governance. She has also completed a course on Sustainable Finance from Harvard Extension School and is a certified Sustainable Finance Analyst from WSFI. She has published research papers in referred academic journals and presented papers in several conferences, seminars and academic workshops. She is a regular visiting faculty for SCOPE- Academy of Public Sector Enterprise (APSE), Management Institutions and various National Law Universities etc.

Her current areas of interest are Corporate Social Responsibility, Responsible Governance, Business Sustainability and Business Laws.

Email: garima[dot]dadhich[at]iica[dot]in
            garima[dot]dadhich[at]gov[dot]in
Contact Number: 9810501258