Praggya Surana is a second-year PhD student in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and a research assistant for the SNSF Ambizione project, Law by Colour Code: Locating Race and Racism in International Law. She studies the impact of the changing geopolitical global order on international legal norms. Her PhD uses an interdisciplinary approach drawn from sociology, international relations, and international law to explore the discursive possibilities available to smaller states to challenge legal inequalities. Her research interests include security law, environmental law, and power relations within international law.

She is an Assistant Professor at OP Jindal Global University, India (currently on leave). Her perspective on the politics of international law has been influenced by her research fellowship at the inter-disciplinary group, KFG- International Law? Rise or Decline, Berlin, and her previous research work at the Indian army’s think tank, the Centre for Land Warfare Studies. She has been educated at National Law School of India University, Bangalore (B.A.-LL.B. honours), and Harvard Law School (LL.M).