About

Co-founder of Nalanda Analytica

Assistant Professor at the School of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

laurabernalb@nalandaanalytica.com

laurabernal@javeriana.edu.co

Short bio

Founding partner at Nalanda Analytica S.A.S, a consultancy firm specialized in regulatory analysis and design. Laura has been consultant of the Department of Sociology and the Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford, regarding transitional justice and business involvement in past violence. She employs a multidisciplinary lens to investigate pressing human rights issues around the world.

Laura has a body of research work that includes the analysis of business and human rights, combined with the economy of conflict and the economy of peacebuilding. She also combines qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct analysis of public policies. Her latest work is found in the book “Transitional Justice and Corporate Complicity: Deploying Archimedes’ Lever from Below”, published by Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Professor Leigh A. Payne of the University of Oxford and Dr. Gabriel Pereira. 

She is recipient of an Honourable Mention of the LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award for her PhD thesis, titled “The Power of Business and the Power of People: Understanding Remedy and Accountability for Corporate Involvement in Human Rights Violations – Colombia 1970-2014.” She has presented her academic work in universities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil. 

Laura was an associate in one of Colombia’s leading law firms and has had experience working for state and non-state human rights institutions. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.