About

Shujath Bin Ali joined PAREXEL International – India in 2016 as senior director of legal and risk management and company secretary before adding the India compliance officer role the following year. He has established and developed the legal team to be a pro-active, business oriented, adaptive team that is constantly pursuing the latest legal research to optimise the department. He has created a governance and compliance program, and training programs making it a priority within the firm as well as launching a “global contracting centre of excellence” to support global contract management. Ali has also conducted multiple trainings to various teams in India, organised workshops on legal orientation to managers covering general guidance on policies, confidentiality, flow down obligations of contracts and intellectual property licensing requirements. In addition he developed training programs, modules, communications campaign on Ethics and Compliance for all India entities in all locations covering 4,000 employees which was emulated at other regions around the world. A nominator describes Ali as ‘an experienced legal and company secretarial professional. He has wide range of experience on legal, compliance and risk matters, having worked for several multinationals in leadership roles. He continuously strives for knowledge and loves learning and sharing knowledge with industry colleagues. He is an active member in various industry and legal forums and a regular speaker at several such events. He is well networked and has gained considerable visibility in the in-house legal community, not just in Hyderabad but across the country’.