Current Fellows
2025-2026 IFD Fellows
Anna Jimenez
International Energy Agency
Anna Jimenez is an LL.M. Candidate at NYU School of Law, where her studies focus on general public international law. Her coursework has included International Organisations, International Investment Law and Arbitration, International Trade Law, International Humanitarian Law and Law and Global Governance. She is currently working as a Research Assistant to Professor Benedict Kingsbury and has conducted a broad range of research from planetary law and compensation mechanisms to hybrid governance organisations such as the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation.
Prior to NYU, Anna was awarded a First-Class Honours BA in Jurisprudence from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. While at Oxford, she represented the university team at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition where she was named Best Oralist in the UK, and her team progressed to the semi-finals of the international rounds.
As an IFD Fellow, she will be joining the International Energy Agency's Legal Office where she looks forward to tackling the international legal issues that are arising in the energy sector.
Yihan Chen
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Yihan Chen is an LL.M. candidate in International Legal Studies at NYU School of Law. He holds an LL.B. degree from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and is qualified to practice law in China.
During his LL.B., Yihan participated in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition from 2023 to 2024 and served as a student coach in 2025. His team won the Baxter and Dillard awards for the best memorials worldwide, as well as first prize and best memorial awards several times in the Chinese national round. He also interned with the international arbitration team in the Shanghai office of a global law firm and the trade remedies team in the Guangzhou office of a Chinese law firm.
At NYU, his coursework includes International Investment Law and Arbitration, International Commercial Arbitration, Law and Business and Human Rights, International Trade Law, and a seminar on Law and Global Governance. Additionally, he serves as a Graduate Editor for the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.
Yihan truly looks forward to commencing the fellowship with the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Geneva, Switzerland.
Priyanka Sunjay
World Bank Technology & Innovation Legal Department
Priyanka Sunjay is an LL.M. candidate at NYU Law, where she is a Dean’s Graduate Scholar. She received her first law degree from National Law University, Jodhpur, India. Before joining NYU, she worked with leading Indian law firms as an M&A attorney. She had a brief stint at Uber as a Secondee. She was also a product counsel at an Indian financial services start-up, where she managed the legal aspects of product launches, entry into new business verticals, and compliance with sectoral laws. In addition, she conducted live classes on tech law issues on a leading Indian ed-tech platform. Her interests lie in fintech, emerging technologies, data privacy, and consumer protection.
At NYU Law, Priyanka was involved with the Privacy Research Group as a Student Fellow and Rights over Tech as an LL.M. Representative. She joined 13 other NYU Law students on an alternative break trip to Japan organized by NYU Law’s Social Enterprise & Startup Law Group.
As an IFD Fellow, she will be working with the World Bank’s Technology & Innovation Legal Department.
Natalia Reinicke
International Finance Corporation
Natalia Reinicke is an LL.M. candidate in International Legal Studies at NYU School of Law and a recipient of the Dean’s Graduate Award. Her studies focus on sovereign finance, capital markets, and cross-border transactions. At NYU, she serves as a Legal Changemaker at the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship, where she is developing SheLeads Circles, a pilot program in Chile designed to expand credit access and business formalization for women entrepreneurs in underserved communities. She also serves as a Research Assistant on sovereign finance, focusing on innovative debt conversion mechanisms, and is a member of the NYU Law Debt Jubilee Committee.
Prior to NYU, Natalia practiced corporate and capital markets law for over four years as an associate at Carey & Cía., Chile’s leading law firm. She advised financial institutions, private equity funds, multinational corporations, and development finance institutions on complex cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets issuances under Rule 144A/Regulation S, joint ventures, debt restructurings, and project and structured finance transactions. Her practice spanned critical sectors of the Chilean and regional economies such as data centers, telecommunications, private equity, energy, and infrastructure funds, including transactions exceeding US$1 billion in value. She also advised on the creation of industry associations representing key sectors of the Chilean economy, including the Chilean Data Centers Association.
Natalia earned her law degree summa cum laude from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, graduating in the top 5% of her class, with a specialization in Commercial-Economic Law. There, she also served as a teaching assistant for the LL.M. course on Mergers and Acquisitions and for the undergraduate courses in Commercial Law, Introduction to Economics, and Civil Law.
She is admitted to practice law in Chile and plans to sit for the New York Bar in July 2026. As an International Finance and Development Fellow, she will work with the International Finance Corporation in Fall 2026.
Charles Romain
International Development Law Organisation
Charles Romain graduated with a double bachelor’s degree in Law and in Economics from the UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles among the best students in his class. He then pursued a double Master’s degree in European and International law from the KU Leuven and the university of Zürich and graduated summa cum laude. Charles is passionate about multilateral diplomacy and international organisations. For this reason, he participated in several prestigious Model United Nations as a member of MUN Society Belgium and earned several individual awards, such as the Diplomacy Award at Harvard World MUN 2023. Alongside his studies, Charles also completed several internships at leading law firms such as A&O Sherman, Freshfields, and Cleary Gottlieb.
At NYU, Charles is pursuing a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies, further specializing in Public International Law and International Human Rights Law. He is particularly interested in issues related to economic and social rights, as well as emerging environmental rights. Upon graduation, Charles will first be doing an internship in Geneva in the special procedures sections of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Then, as an IFD Fellow in the Office of the General Counsel of the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), Charles hopes to put what he has learned in theory into practice and is ready to promote the rule of law to advance development, justice, and sustainable development globally.
Christopher McCardle
World Bank Legal Vice Presidency
Christopher McCardle is an LL.M. candidate in legal theory and Hauser Global Scholar at NYU School of Law. His work has focused on the morality of private law institutions, with a particular concentration on applying neo-republican theory to the law of property ownership. While at NYU, Chris has served as a staff editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, a research assistant to Professor Trace M. Maddox and LL.M. representative on the Board of Law Students for Economic Justice.
Before coming to NYU, Chris graduated second in his class at Waipapa Taumata Rau | the University of Auckland with a bachelor of laws (honors) and a bachelor of arts in history and politics. He also studied abroad at Trinity College, Dublin and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After law school, he served as judge's clerk to Glazebrook J at te Kōti Mana Nui | the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
During his clerkship, he was also Editor-in-Chief of the Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand. Also concurrent with his clerkship, Chris worked as a tutor in contract law at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington. Following his time as a clerk, Chris practiced as a junior barrister at Mills Lane Chambers in Auckland, working across all areas of civil litigation. He has published various articles in the Auckland University Law Review, the Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand, the New Zealand Law Journal and Gateway History Journal.
Chris is excited to commence his fellowship at the World Bank Legal Vice Presidency, where he hopes to develop his own research skills while contributing to the Bank's mission.
Ayushi Chaurasia
World Bank Legal Vice Presidency
Ayushi Chaurasia is a Master of Laws candidate at NYU School of Law. Having an interest in privacy and data protection, Ayushi's coursework at NYU includes Global Data Law, Information Privacy Laws, and Digital Currency, Blockchain and Future of Financial Services. Ayushi is a Student Fellow for the Privacy Research Group and LL.M. Representative for the Asia Law Society at NYU.
Before joining NYU, Ayushi practiced as a dispute resolution attorney before various courts and tribunals in India, prominently the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. She handled matters ranging from education, healthcare, aviation, and energy sectors, and represented corporations and public sector entities in mediations and ad-hoc arbitrations.
Ayushi completed her B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) at National Law Institute University, India, in 2020. During her time there, she held leadership positions and was actively involved in volunteering in the public sector. She successfully represented her university in several mooting, debating, and client counselling competitions. Ayushi also volunteered in organizing an exhibition on refugee law in New Delhi.
Ayushi is passionate about technology law and its intersection with international law. She has undertaken specialized training at the Hague Academy of International Law, Indian Society of International Law and the World Intellectual Property Organization. She has published a research paper on privacy and presented her research at prominent law schools in India.
Ayushi looks forward to her role at the World Bank in Washington D.C., where she will assist in advising on issues relating to technology and innovation in aiding development.