Shreya Joshi

Shreya Joshi is a legal associate at RBN Chambers LLC where she handles international commercial arbitration cases. She has co-represented international clients in arbitration administered by Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). Further, she engages in legal research on various contractual, commercial, labour and technology-related matters.

She is Nepal-qualified lawyer with a Master of Law (LLM) from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening-Cambridge Trust Scholar. At Cambridge, she studied International Investment Law, Intellectual Property Law, Economics of Law and Regulation and Advanced Labour Law. She completed her undergraduate degree in Law and Business Management (BBM LLB) from  Kathmandu University, where she graduated top of her class and earned the Nepal Bidhya Bhusan award.

Prior to joining RBN Chambers, she worked at Unilever Nepal as a Legal Consultant where she managed contracts, partnered with various corporate functions such as Marketing and Supply Chain to ensure legal compliance and due diligence. She spearheaded government liaison initiatives and worked on data privacy issues and intellectual property law matters. Following this, she led a legal-tech start-up as the Chief Legal Officer at MeroAdda, improving access to justice through technology-driven solutions. She taught Intellectual Property Law at Kathmandu University School of Law as a visiting faculty.

In 2024, Shreya presented on the status of  AI law and ethics in Nepal at the SMU-Microsoft Asian Dialogue on AI. She also contributed to the leximetric dataset on Nepal’s labour laws for Cambridge’s Centre for Business Research.

Beyond her legal career, Shreya is a published novelist, debater, debate-coach and a vocal advocate for legal reforms and justice. Her research interest lies in the intersection of law, technology and labour.