Meenu Chandra leads the Legal, Compliance and Secretarial function of PwC US Asia Acceleration Centres across Asia. She is a legal professional with 25 years of rich and diverse experience of General Commercial, regulatory compliance, litigation, arbitration as well as policy advocacy in areas of IP, Privacy, Cyber security in Hi-tech & ITES companies like HCL Technologies, Microsoft and UnitedLex along with a rich research and training experience across USA, UK, and India.

Before joining PwC US Acceleration Centres, Meenu led the Legal, Commercial and Global Compliance function of HCL Technologies for its operations in India, UK, Europe and APMEA-ANZ Japan regions. Prior to this, Meenu was Senior Attorney, Director IP and Digital Crime Unit in the Corporate, External & Legal Affairs function of Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd. In her 5 years at Microsoft Meenu led the Cybersecurity Engagement Centre initiative of Microsoft India that showcased an immersive experience of Microsoft’s prowess in fighting cybercrime. She was also responsible for driving policy and advocacy programs with Government, Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Industry bodies, Academia, and Corporates.

Meenu Chandra leads the Legal, Compliance and Secretarial function of PwC US Asia Acceleration Centres across Asia. She is a legal professional with 25 years of rich and diverse experience of General Commercial, regulatory compliance, litigation, arbitration as well as policy advocacy in areas of IP, Privacy, Cyber security in Hi-tech & ITES companies like HCL Technologies, Microsoft and UnitedLex along with a rich research and training experience across USA, UK, and India.

Before joining PwC US Acceleration Centres, Meenu led the Legal, Commercial and Global Compliance function of HCL Technologies for its operations in India, UK, Europe and APMEA-ANZ Japan regions. Prior to this, Meenu was Senior Attorney, Director IP and Digital Crime Unit in the Corporate, External & Legal Affairs function of Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd. In her 5 years at Microsoft Meenu led the Cybersecurity Engagement Centre initiative of Microsoft India that showcased an immersive experience of Microsoft’s prowess in fighting cybercrime. She was also responsible for driving policy and advocacy programs with Government, Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Industry bodies, Academia, and Corporates.

She has served as BSA India Chair India Campaign Committee (2017 &2018) responsible for executing cybersecurity and anti-piracy awareness campaigns across India as well has been an active member of IP and Cybersecurity Committee at ASSOCHAM, CII and FICCI. Meenu has been actively engaged in policy debates and has published various publications on Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, IP and Innovation, Trade secrets, Anti-Counterfeiting, IP and Competition law. She spearheaded Public policy campaigns such as FICCI CASCADE and Microsoft India’s Cybersecurity Engagement Centre.

An avid speaker at national and international forums on policy & legal issues, Meenu is the proud recipient of the INBA Women In-House Counsel of the year – Cyberlaw 2017, the Legal Era IP Star Women Award of the Year at the International IP Conclave & Awards (IIPCA) 2019 and 3rd Annual "Women in Law Excellence Awards 2021” amongst many other accolades.

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