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Dr. Akhil Prasad is Country Counsel India and Company Secretary with Boeing International Corporation and is based at New Delhi. In past, he has held offices as Head of Legal and Company Secretary with Fidelity Worldwide Investment (2007 to 2013), Director India Legal Affairs & Company Secretary of The Walt Disney Company India (2005 to 2007), as Senior Attorney & Company Secretary of General Motors India (2003 to 2005), and as Assistant General Manager Legal with Electrolux Kelvinator (2000 to 2002). Prior to these assignments, he has also worked with the legal teams in Modicorp Group (including Modi Xerox and Graphtech India from 1995 to 2000). Akhil has about over 20 years’ experience as an In-house Counsel and has worked with legal teams spread across different countries. Akhil has been on the board of directors of entities within the Fidelity group (Devonshire India Real Estate Holding, Eight Roads Investment Advisors, and FIL Research India) and is currently a member of the board of directors of Boeing International Corporation India Private Limited, Boeing India Defense Private Limited and Boeing India Services Private Limited. Akhil in 2016, has been nominated among the GC Power List India by Legal 500, 100 Legal Luminaries of India by Lexis Nexis, and among the Finest India In-house Counsels by Indian Corporate Counsel Association. He has also been appointed as member Editorial Board of Asia Business Law Journal www.vantageasia.com and International In-house Counsel Journal www.iicj.net/editorial-board both of which are international journals. Akhil has been nominated to the Corporate Law Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Akhil has worked across various industries in the area of legal, risk and compliance, taxation, regulatory and corporate affairs. He has worked for Steel, Office Automation, White Goods, Computer Hardware, Media & Entertainment, IT/ITES, Private Equity, Mutual Funds and now Aerospace and Defence. His areas of practice includes Contracts (including International Contracts) & Litigation, Corporate Laws, Competition Law, Environmental Laws, Intellectual Property Laws, Industrial & Employment Laws, Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled Services, Private Equity, Risk Management, Oversight and Regulatory Compliance, Media Laws, Mergers Amalgamations & Restructuring, Real Estate / Property Laws, Tax Laws. Akhil is a visiting faculty with the National Law University – Delhi and Jodhpur (NLU), the Master of International Business program of the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), the Indian School of Business, Chandigarh (ISB), the Department of Management Studies of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi), the Management Development Institute (MDI – Gurgaon), OP Jindal Global University (OPJGU), the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur (IIM-K), and Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law – IIT Kharagpur (IIT-Kharagpur). Akhil has also judged international moot competitions at NLU Delhi and IIT Kharagpur. Akhil holds a Doctorate in Law (LL.D), Doctorate in Commerce (Ph.D), is a post graduate in Law (LL.M), is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (FCS) and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK (FCIS), is a non-practicing Solicitor of England & Wales, has done the Master of Laws (Honors) program in US laws (LL.M US) with the Northwestern University, Chicago and Certificate in Business Administration program from Instituto de Empressa, Madrid, Spain (IE). Akhil, therefore, has legal expertise in India, UK and the US. Akhil holds professional memberships with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK, the Law Society, UK, Indian Council of Arbitration, India, FACT Panel of Arbitrators & Conciliators, India. Akhil is the Vice – Chairman and an Advisory Board member to the Corporate Counsel Committee of the International Bar Association. He has also been nominated as an India Representative to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee of the International Bar Association. Akhil has also been nominated as a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) to develop a “Guide for Corporate Counsel on Corporate Sustainability”, a joint initiative by Linklaters. Link to the guide: http://www.upj.de/fileadmin/user_upload/MAIN-dateien/Aktuelles/Nachrichten/generalcounsel_gc_linklaters.pdf Akhil is the founder member of the Indian Corporate Counsel Association, an organisation of In-house Counsel in India www.iccaonline.org.in He is an avid speaker and has participated in seminars in India and outside (Boston, Dubai, London, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Vancouver, & Vienna).