Sharanjeet Parmar is an international human rights lawyer and President of Glasshouse Initiatives, a development consulting firm. She most recently implemented an anti-corruption project for PriceWaterhouseCoopers UK in the DR Congo. She has served as a war crimes prosecutor with the Special Court for Sierra Leone and lectured on human rights at Harvard Law School. Ms Parmar has over 15 years of experience working in a dozen countries across Africa and Asia on gender, peace, justice and security issues. She is a recognised expert on sexual and gender-based violence, transitional justice, anticorruption and rule of law programming in fragile states. With proven capacity in mixed-methods field research, she has authored numerous policy and academic publications.