Mr. Surya Deva
Former member of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Mr. Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School, University of Macquarie, Sydney. He researches in the areas of business and human rights, India-China constitutional law, international human rights law, and sustainable development. Deva has published extensively in these areas, and has advised UN agencies, governments, multinational corporations, and civil society organisations on issues related to business and human rights. Prior to joining Macquarie, he taught at City University of Hong Kong, the University of Delhi and the National Law Institute University Bhopal. Mr Deva holds BA (Hons) Political Science, LLB and LLM from the University of Delhi and a PhD from the University of Sydney. He is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, the Indian Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights. Deva is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2014-18; 2018-22).