Primary Job Title Senior Associate Primary Organization 
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
Sohini Chatterjee provides strategic advice to foundations, think tanks, and governments on global human rights and security issues. She served as an appointee in the Obama administration, working in the Policy Planning Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She led multiple White House and Department of State initiatives and
directives on global development. Her work was focused on mass atrocities and conflict, transnational organized crime, and strengthening civil society and the rule of law. Prior to that, she worked for the World Bank’s Development Prospects Group on the economic and political effects of migration and long-term scenario planning. Previously, she was an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, worked on the first ever international trade case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and provided legal and strategic advice to various governments and companies on a wide array of international legal matters. She also served as a pro bono trial attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Washington, D.C., where she was lead counsel in numerous trials involving domestic violence and family law.
