Kritika Krishnamurthy is a corporate commercial lawyer and policy expert with extensive experience in financial regulation, dispute resolution, and digital reforms. She serves as Honorary Director at Bridge Policy Think Tank, India, a sector-agnostic think tank dedicated to shaping India’s public policy landscape as a non-profit. She works at the intersection of law, economics, pharmaceuticals, fintech, MedTech and governance to support governmental and non-governmental organisations, regulatory bodies and international institutions.

Kritika serves in several distinguished international and governmental capacities, including being empanelled as a Mediator with the World Bank, and holding advisory roles as External Consultant to the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, External Consultant to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Mediator for the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). Her professional contributions have been recognised through multiple honours, including the Forbes Legal Powerlist, ASSOCHAM National Legal Excellence Award, India Business Law Journal’s Future Legal Leaders, and BW Legal World 40 Under 40. She is a Fellow of UN 1325 Women in Conflict (Beyond Borders, Scotland) and an alumna of the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation and Government of Maharashtra scholarship programmes, reflecting academic excellence and global leadership. She has also received advanced mediation training from the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR) and the Global Mediation Forum in Bangkok.

Her previous work includes high-impact policy research and advisory projects across diverse sectors. She has authored reports on payment innovations and financial inclusion in South Asia for the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, advised the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) on creating a global dispute resolution framework at GIFT City, and provided expert inputs to the World Bank on improving delayed payment mechanisms for MSMEs under the India RAMP Project. She has consulted for USAID Sri Lanka on enhancing access to justice through ADR, collaborated with the European Union on harmonising digital health regulations under the EU-India Think Tanks Twinning Initiative, and developed multi-jurisdictional studies on drug pricing for the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority. Her work also spans emerging areas such as Central Bank Digital Currency, fintech regulation, climate governance with the Green Climate Fund, and sustainable municipal waste management with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA). These initiatives reflect her commitment to evidence-based policymaking, institutional reform, and socio-economic inclusion.

Kritika is deeply invested in knowledge dissemination. She serves as visiting faculty at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), and the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law. As an author and academic, she has co-authored *The Art of Negotiation and Mediation*, published by LexisNexis and recommended by the Bar Council of India as a textbook for law students, and *Third Party Funding of Dispute Resolution*, published by Eastern Book Company (EBC).

Participant in: November/December 2020 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes