Archana Jatkar

Archana Jatkar

Chair, IGBA International Trade and Intellectual Property Committee

Associate Secretary General
Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA)

Archana Jatkar is an Associate Secretary General (International Trade and Regulatory Affairs) at Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) (www.ipa-india.org) where she is responsible for developing and executing strategies on international trade policy and regulatory issues.

Archana will be the Chair for International Trade and Intellectual Property Committee of International Generic and Biosimilar Association (IGBA) for 2023-24. She is also an active StartUp Mentor at Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) StartUps, fostering and stimulating health and health-based innovators.

Before joining IPA, Archana was the Deputy Head for a think tank working on International Trade issues. She works with governments, research and policy community in India, Geneva, USA, South Asia, EU, and with intergovernmental agencies such as the WTO, UN organisations, industry associations and consultants, globally. She has written several policy research papers and regularly writes in newspapers on contemporary issues of international trade. She has been guest speaker at law colleges and has also been judging moot court competitions including at National Law College, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in India.

She is an Alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University (USA) and an LLM (International Economic Law) from University of Kent, UK. Archana has practiced as an advocate in corporate and constitutional law before the Hon’ble High Court of Judicature at Bombay and has an excellent understanding of the legal and institutional environment in regard to trade development and economic laws in India.