Vikram Raghavan is senior counsel in the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency, where he works in two different practice groups. As a member of the East Asia and South Asia group, Mr. Raghavan is country lawyer for the World Bank’s operations in India, Myanmar, and Korea. In that capacity, he provides legal and transactional advice on a variety of constitutional, operational, and local law issues that arise in World Bank-financed projects in those areas.

Previously, he worked as country lawyer for World Bank portfolios in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Most recently, he focused on Iraq, Iran, the West Bank, and Gaza.

In the Operations Policy practice group, Mr. Raghavan’s responsibilities include handling various legal and policy issues affecting post-conflict areas and fragile states. He serves on the World Bank’s Post Conflict Fund Committee. He also provides legal advice regarding development policy operations (formerly called structural adjustment operations) and breach-of-governmental-contract questions. Before joining the World Bank in 2001, Vikram Raghavan was an associate in the New York office of O’Melveny & Myers. There, he worked on several transactional, litigation, and international-arbitration matters. He is a graduate of the National Law School of India in Bangalore, and earned his masters in international law from NYU Law School. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. He is the author of a legal treatise: Communications Law in India: Legal Aspects of Telecom, Broadcasting, and Cable Services (LexisNexis 2006); and is presently working on a book about the drafting and adoption of the Indian Constitution and the founding of modern India. He and his friends have together created a blog on Indian law and legal developments: www.lawandotherthings.blogspot.com.