Mrinalini Shinde

Mrinalini is an environmental lawyer and researcher based in Cologne, Germany. She currently serves as an Integrity Manager at International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) involving closer monitoring the integrity of sustainability certification and business compliance through integrity assessments. Previously, she managed the International Master of Environmental Sciences programme and was affiliated with the INGENIoS (Indo-German Network Interaction of Scientists) projects at the Environmental Law Center of the University of Cologne. Her research background is in international climate change law; corporate criminal liability for environmental crime; and international environmental law.

In the past, she has also served as a Fellow at the Legal Affairs division of the UNFCCC secretariat in intergovernmental matters, treaty implementation and capacity-building. She has also previously litigated cases in environmental and criminal law; and advised the climate media non-profit, ‘Climate Tracker Inc.’ as Policy Associate.

She is a candidate for the Doctor of Laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Cologne, & Doctor of Comparative Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds an LL.M. in Legal Theory from the Goethe University, Frankfurt, an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Cologne and a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore.