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'''Pinky Anand''' is an Indian lawyer and was designated as a [[senior counsel|senior advocate]] till May 2020. She served as an [[Additional Solicitor General of India]] at the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref name="BNB ASG">{{cite news |last1=Saluja |first1=Pallavi |title=Senior Advocate Pinky Anand appointed ASG |url=http://barandbench.com/content/212/senior-advocate-pinky-anand-appointed-asg |accessdate=4 February 2017 |work=Bar and Bench |date=10 July 2014 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140711131249/http://barandbench.com/content/212/senior-advocate-pinky-anand-appointed-asg%23.U7_iwH3LfK4 |archivedate=11 July 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Hindu asg">{{cite news|title=Pinky Anand appointed ASG |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pinky-anand-appointed-asg/article6194861.ece|accessdate=10 July 2014 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=10 July 2014}}</ref> She is also a politician.

==Education==
Anand graduated from [[Lady Shri Ram College for Women]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Inlaks ALumni|url=http://inlaksfoundation.org/Alumni.aspx?sort=old&Type=A&SortAlpha=P|accessdate=10 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201336/http://inlaksfoundation.org/Alumni.aspx?sort=old&Type=A&SortAlpha=P|archive-date=2014-07-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> and received her [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]] degree from the [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]].<ref>{{ cite news|title=Our generation sullied reputation of lawyers: Harish Salve|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/our-generation-sullied-reputation-of-lawyers-harish-salve-114072801321_1.html|newspaper=[[Business Standard]]|date=2014-07-28 }}</ref> In 1979–80, she was elected as the first woman Secretary of [[Delhi University Students Union]] (DUSU) winning with the highest number of votes.<ref name=TED /> In 1980, she joined [[Harvard University]] to receive a [[Master of Law]] degree, supported by an Inlaks Scholarship from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation.<ref name=HT>{{ cite news|title=Inlaks scholarship announced for 2011|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/hteducation/chunk-ht-ui-hteducationsectionpage-otherstories/inlaks-scholarship-announced-for-2011/article1-659854.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223225437/http://www.hindustantimes.com/hteducation/chunk-ht-ui-hteducationsectionpage-otherstories/inlaks-scholarship-announced-for-2011/article1-659854.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 December 2014|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=2011-02-08 }}</ref>

==Career==
Anand is considered an expert in the field of [[Constitutional law|constitutional]], [[Property law|property]], [[private international law|private international]], [[family law|family]], [[environmental law|environmental]] and [[corporate law]]s. She was the head of the All-India Legal Cell at the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) and is a former Additional Advocate-General for the State of [[Uttarakhand]]. In 2007, she was designated as a [[Senior counsel|senior advocate]]. On 9 July 2014, she was appointed as an [[Additional Solicitor General of India]]. She is the second woman lawyer to be appointed to this post after [[Indira Jaising]] was appointed in the [[United Progressive Alliance]] government.<ref name="BNB ASG" /><ref name="Hindu asg" /> She now practices in the [[Supreme Court of India]]. Some of the leading cases fought by her are related to constitutional right of freedom and expression for Indian actress [[Khushbu]] in which the Supreme Court upheld the rights in a path breaking judgment and quashed 21 cases of defamation; She represented the [[Government of France]] in the famous case of the [[French aircraft carrier Clemenceau]]; against genetically modified food in India, etc. She was the Chairperson, National Committee Law, [[ASSOCHAM]] Ladies League. She was the Vice President of Bar Association of India. Anand has received several awards for excellence in law including [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry|FICCI]] and [[Bharat Nirman]], Women Achiever.<ref name="IAML">{{cite web|url=http://www.iaml.org/members_data/profile/pinkyanand|title=Dr. Pinky Anand - Profile|publisher=International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers|accessdate=10 July 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817161826/http://www.iaml.org/members_data/profile/pinkyanand|archivedate=17 August 2013}}</ref> She was also an Arbitrator with the Indian Council of Arbitrations.<ref name=TED>{{cite web|title=Theme: The Space Between....|url=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6731|publisher=TEDxISBWomen|accessdate=10 July 2014|date=1 December 2012}}</ref> According to Anand her life-changing court case was when she, then a novice in law appeared against the reputed jurist [[Laxmi Mall Singhvi|L. M. Singhvi]] and eventually won.<ref name=HT/>

===Political career===
Anand was a member of All India National Executive of [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] and has served as the national convenor of BJP's legal and legislative cell from 2007 till 2010. She represented BJP in the 5th General Assembly [[International Conference of Asian Political Parties]] (ICAPP) at [[Astana]], Kazakhstan-24–26 September 2009 and was elected as the Vice President of the session on Women and Politics. She was a Member of the Delegation of the BJP to [[Kochi]] in July 2010.<ref name=TED />

==Other positions==
She was the spokesperson for and lead the All India Legal team of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP). She is Alternate Country Councillor (India) of LAWASIA. She is Chairperson, National Committee Law, [[ASSOCHAM]] Ladies League. She has received several awards for excellence in law by [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry|FICCI]], Lions Club, [[Amity University, Noida|Amity University]] & [[Bharat Nirman]], PHD Chamber for Progress Harmony Development. She was a Core Committee member of the [[National Human Rights Commission]]. She is a director at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, an NGO in the field of environment. She is a member in the Board of Studies at the School of Law in [[Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology|KIIT University]].<ref name=TED />

She is a speaker and writer active in social issues. She is a well known speaker on media and international and national conferences. Anand lectures in universities in India and abroad and in various international and national conferences such as Women's Forum Global Meeting, [[Deauville]], France in 2008 and [[Terra Madre]], Turin, Italy 2008 and 2010. She is a Fellow of Session 433, "Women, Political Power & Next Generation Leadership" Salzburg Seminar in Austria, 2006.<ref name=TED />

Currently, she is representing India in the formation of [[BRICS]] Legal Forum and serves as a member of the Indian delegation to Brazil. She represented India at II BRICS Legal Forum at [[Shanghai]] in October 2015. She was a speaker at the Ladies Study Group, Kolkata at the Seminar on "Law and the Woman" in November 2015. She was also a Panel Speaker at [[Jaipur Literature Festival]] 2016.

==Awards==
* [[National Order of Merit (France)|French National Order of Merit]] from the [[President of the French Republic]]<ref name=IAML />
* Award for Excellence in Law 2009, by [[FICCI]] FLO for outstanding contribution in the field of law.<ref name=TED />
* 19th [[Bharat Nirman]] Awards for Excellence in Law in 2007.<ref name=TED />

==Publications==
* Co-author of ''International Family Law, Jurisdictional Comparisons'' First Edition 2011, printed by [[Sweet & Maxwell]], UK.

==References==
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== External links ==

* [https://penguin.co.in/book_author/pinky-anand/ Pinky Anand] at [[Penguin India]]

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