Priya Nandita Pooran advises on international financial regulation and reforms arising from the global financial crisis. She qualified from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.B; LL.M) in 1996 and is admitted to the Bar in England (Grays Inn, 1997), Trinidad & Tobago (1999) and New York (2003). She started her career at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York and has advised as a transactional and regulatory lawyer on all aspects of the financial system and on the regulation and supervision of bank and non-bank financial institutions at leading international law firms, and in the public sector at the IMF, UNODC and other international organizations.

She was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, UK in 2009 and has spoken and taught on financial regulatory reform in Switzerland, London and other countries.