Hemant K. Batra is a policy specialist & international business lawyer with nearly three decades of experience. He is one of the principal founders of Goeman Bind HTO. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kaden Boriss Global, full-service international law firms worldwide link that has more 10 offices in 7 countries. He is the Vice President of South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation in Law (SAARCLAW), a regional apex body of a diplomatic regional forum SAARC, by virtue of which, he enjoys a quasi-diplomatic status. He is also the Chair of the South Asia Committee of Indian National Bar Association and a lifetime member of the General Assembly of the Union of International Association (UIA), a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was founded over one hundred years ago, in 1907, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science. The UIA has consultative status with ECOSOC and associate status with UNESCO. He is the Jury Chairman of globally acclaimed ACES Awards for business leadership, corporate excellence, and sustainability. He is the winner of England’s prestigious Corporate-INTL Lawyer Award for the years 2014, 2015 & 2016. And UK’s Global Law Experts Award for 2017 in the category of Joint Ventures. He was awarded the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Seva Medal by the Gandhi Global Foundation. He has been the longest serving Secretary-General of SAARCLAW (South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation in Law). He is associated with various projects of UN, UNDP, UNAIDS, UN-ESCAP, ADB, and IDLO.