Ameya Kilara

Ameya Kilara is a dual qualified lawyer (India and the UK) with extensive peacebuilding experience. She is Director of the South Asian Leadership Initiative at Inter Mediate in London, focused on supporting leaders negotiating peace in Kashmir and other conflicts in South Asia. She has facilitated various dialogue initiatives across the Line of Control in Kashmir and a high level India-Pakistan Track Two process at Conciliation Resources, London. She has also provided technical support to the UN’s Office of the Special Envoy for Syria and contributed to pro bono legal mediation at Linklaters, an international law firm in London. She is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge USA. She was awarded the Tamasek Foundation-NUS Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking Award 2008 and a leadership fellowship on social innovation at the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership from 2016-18. She participated in the Melbourne Forum in 2019.