Dr Anju Rathi Rana

Dr. Anju Rathi, ex-officio Member, IBBI (7th  July, 2025 to 10th Feb, 2026)

Dr. Anju Rathi Rana was the Union Law Secretary to the Government of India, heading the Department of Legal Affairs under the Ministry of Law and Justice. A senior officer of the Indian Legal Service, she was the first lady to hold this position.

Dr. Rana was an ex-officio member of several key institutions, including the Law Commission of India, the India International Arbitration Centre, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and the Indian Law Institute—where she also serves on the Governing Council, Executive Council and Finance Committee. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; the Executive Council of the Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies; and the Governing Body of the Indian Council of Arbitration.

She has been leading the policy and legislative initiatives in the domain of commercial dispute resolution under key enactments including the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, and the Mediation Act, 2023, aimed at inter-alia improving the Ease of Doing Business in the country.

She has represented India at several international platforms, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and BRICS, contributing to dialogues on legal cooperation, cross-border governance and security. Under her leadership, the Department is actively contributing to key bilateral and multilateral agreements, such as the Indo-UK Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, taking forward cooperation under the India–Singapore MoU on Cooperation in Law and Dispute Resolution, and India-UK MoU in the sphere of law and justice and ongoing negotiations for Bilateral Investment Treaties, with several countries.

A 2017 recipient of the loksabha research fellowship, Dr Rana has navigated the many layers of India's legal and administrative machinery with institutional insight and a deep rooted commitment to public service