Hemant K Batra is an internationally known Speaker, Author, Mediator, Academician, Tutor, Legal Counsel, and Law – Public Policy Expert in the areas of policies governing Economics, Corporate, Commercial, Business, Trade & Cross-Border Investment regimes. He is a globally acclaimed corporate, commercial, strategist business, and policy lawyer, author, writer and speaker, for nearly three decades. He was enrolled as an Advocate in 1991. He has been an active law practitioner of domestic/international corporate, business, and commercial cross-border laws & policies for last more than 27 years.
He is the elected vice-president of SAARCLAW (South Asian Association for Regional cooperation in law), a regional apex body of SAARC established in 1990, and being the longest serving Secretary General of SAARCLAW i.e. almost 10 years the past. SAARC is an inter-governmental diplomatic body of 8 South Asian nations. Hemant Batra had been associated with various projects of UN, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNESCAP, and ADB. He is chair of the South Asia committee of the Indian National Bar Association. His profile is independently covered by Wikipedia.
He was awarded the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Seva Medal by the Gandhi Global Foundation for effectively connecting legal communities of the SAARC nations. He was a mentor at several prestigious schools of business and a lifetime member of the General Assembly of the Union of International Association (UIA), a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was founded over 100 years ago, in 1907, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913) and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science. The UIA has consultative status with ECOSOC and associate status with UNESCO.
He is a well-acclaimed writer with six diverse books to his authorship. His latest book on `Due Diligence’ in business and asset acquisition has been published by a leading law publisher Eastern Book Company and has sold hundreds of copies already. He wrote the first-ever textbook on SAARC. It has been published twice with revised editions and unveiled by the Chief Justice of India, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister and the Secretary-General – SAARC. His other books include `Face To Face With Insight (Law & Policy)’ and `Global Concerns Viewed With Law & Policy’. He has been widely covered and reported in leading newspapers, magazines and tv channels.
