Els Reynaers is a Partner at M.V. Kini & Co.  and heads the firm’s Environment practice; and is specialized in environmental law and nuclear law. 

She has law degrees from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (magna cum laude), and the University of Delhi, India. She completed an LL.M. degree at the University of Georgia, U.S.A, which included a thesis on the regulation of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes.

Before moving to India, she worked as a lawyer on environment and energy-related issues at Allen & Overy, Brussels and at Giordano & Associates, Chicago, USA.

Prior to obtaining her Indian law degree Els headed the Centre for Global Agreements, Legislation and Trade at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi.  She worked closely with the Government of India on its WTO trade and environment negotiations. 

Els is widely published. She has recently written on India’s civil nuclear liability regime (“India's Nuclear Trade – Inching Forward?" in Key Developments in Environmental Law 2014, Canada Law Book) and published a monograph on the status of the precautionary principle.

Els serves as the General Secretary of the Nuclear Law Association of India, which she helped co-found, was the President (2015-2016) of the International Nuclear Law Association, and is Senior Vice Chair of the IBA’s Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee (2017-2018).

International Alumni Association Member Els Reynaers, LLM, MA can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.