Dr. Aniruddha Rajput is a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (2017-21). He served as the Chairperson of the Drafting Committee of the International Law Commission at its 69th Session in 2017. The topic proposed by him ‘Evidence before International Courts and Tribunals’ was put on the Long Term Programme of Work of the Commission in 2017. He advises and appears on behalf of States and private entities before international courts and tribunals and currently practices as a Consultant, Public International Law and International Arbitration at Withers LLP in London. His areas of research, writing and practice are general international law, law of the sea, boundary disputes, international trade and investment law. He has published and lectured in these areas. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and was previously a Practitioner-in-residence at the KFG International Rule of Law – Rise of Decline? at Humboldt University in Berlin in 2017. He is a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA). He was a member of the Study Group constituted by the Law Commission of India to revise the Model Bilateral Investment Treaty and member of the 5th Haryana State Finance Commission constituted under Article 243 (I) and 234 (Y) of the Constitution of India.