Els Reynaers Kini obtained her law degree at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (magna cum laude), as well as the University of Delhi, India, and completed her LL.M. degree at the University of Georgia, U.S.A, during which she wrote a thesis on the regulation of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes in the US and the EU.

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 she worked at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), New Delhi, where she headed the Centre for Global Agreements, Legislation and Trade, during which she had the opportunity to work closely with the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India on the WTO trade-and-environment negotiations. She also taught environmental law at the TERI School of Advanced Studies (Master Program).

She has several publications to her credit; her latest monograph (published in 2008 by the Editions Interuniversitaires Suisses – EDIS) addresses the status of the precautionary principle under international environmental law and the customary international law formation process: http://www.editions-edis.ch/Sitio/libro_or_5.html

She now is a Senior Associate and Head of the Environment Department at M.V. Kini & Co. She is also the Secretary of the newly established Nuclear Law Association (India): www.nlain.org