Gaytri D. Kachroo

Dr. Gaytri D. Kachroo is a scholar, attorney, entrepreneur, and author. She is the Founder and President of the Project for World Peace (the ‘PWP’).

Early life and education

Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, she emigrated with her family to Montreal, Quebec, Canada at almost nine years of age speaking neither English nor French.

Kachroo received her Bachelor’s at Wellesley College majoring in Fine Arts, Political Science, and English Literature.

Later she attended McGill Law School and Harvard Law School which added to her civil and common law degrees from the University of Ottawa. Her studies focused on human rights, comparative conceptions of law, and understanding dynamic systems of order within legal institutions.

Wellesley College: B.A. 1982

Harvard Law School: S.J.D., Doctor of Juridical Science, 2002

Harvard Law School: LL.M., Master of Laws, (Qualifying Degree - High Honors), 1995

McGill University: LL.M., Master of International Comparative Law (High Honors), 1991

University of Ottawa: LL.B., Common Law, Magna Cum Laude, 1987; LL.L., License en Droit, Magna Cum Laude, 1986

Work

Overview

She is the founder and managing principal of Kachroo Legal Services, P.C. (“KLS”) a Boston area law firm that serves U.S. and international clients.

Dr. Kachroo has represented the Madoff Whistleblower, Harry Markopolos, and his team, before the House Financial Services Committee, and the Senate Banking Committee and before the SEC.

She has also proposed a bill to establish a new International Finance Court to curb the persistence of jurisdictional arbitrage in financial fraud worldwide through the House of Commons in the U.S. congress. She has also made this proposal before the World Legal Forum at the Hague, Netherlands.

In addition to legal services, she has operated businesses in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors, creating turn-key solutions and teams using traditional corporate models.

Legal services

Dr. Kachroo is the founder of Kachroo Legal Services, P.C. (“KLS”), a law firm representing individuals and large groups of domestic and international investors in strategic recovery and in whistleblower claims before the SEC, IRS, and under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Along with other KLS Attorneys, she has represented a class of defrauded investors globally overcoming sovereign immunity under the FTCA and a motion to dismiss the case brought by the US Government and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She represented the Class of Investors defrauded by the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. She also joined the Madoff Global Alliance as its Vice Chair - a group of 5000 attorneys worldwide representing the defrauded investors in the Bernie Madoff case.

Project for World Peace

Gaytri D. Kachroo, is the Founder and President of the Project for World Peace (‘PWP’) – a ‘DO’ Tank and social enterprise promoting peace and prosperity initiatives through a variety of advanced and sustainable technologies to address steep economic disparities worldwide and intractable world conflicts.  The PWP and its affiliate funding structure, seek to create a wholly novel network of organizational collaborations and purpose-based projects for international development and futurist sustainable technology including agritech, aquatech, biotech, energytech, identity-creation, security, AI, nanotech, microfinance, and transformational digital technologies for humanity.  Through PWP work on the future of human governance, Dr. Kachroo seeks to implement the theory of ‘integration’ propounded in her new monograph in process.

Financial services

Kachroo formed a corporate structure for and assisted the Whistleblower Team of Harry Markopolos, and assembled a record of its investigation and disclosure of the record of complaints made to the SEC regarding the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. She represented Harry Markopolos before the Senate Banking Committee (Sept. 10, 2009); and the House Financial Services Committee as co-counsel (Feb. 4, 2009). Kachroo represented the entire team, Frank Casey, Michael Ocrant, Neil Chelo, and Harry Markopolos before the SEC IG’s Office in its investigation of errors made by the SEC in their investigation of Madoff.

International legislative and political initiatives'

Dr. Kachroo helped formulate the proposal for a new International Finance Court before the Hague World Legal Forum. Her work assisted with the introduction of a House bill for a new International Finance Court and discussions between the EU and Chairman Kanjorski of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on an arbitral forum for international financial fraud claims.

She advocated for and provided input to the Senate Banking Committee on changes in legislation affecting the financial services sector including whistleblower provisions embodied in the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act.

Dr. Kachroo lead initiatives of multiple NGOs in Canada relating to Human Rights before the Canadian Parliament, and advocated at the United Nations and on global platforms for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.

Health care, energy and technology

Kachroo acted as global CEO and Chairman, of RAPID Pharmaceuticals (now in Liquidation), a Swiss company with multiple subsidiaries involved in the clinical development of peptide therapeutics for various orphan and chronic neurodegenerative illnesses.

Kachroo was also member or head of the India Practice Group and International Practice Group at various Boston Law Firms.

Certificates and awards

LL.L. License en Droit, Magna Cum Laude, 1986

Charles Coderre Prize

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Clerkships

Massachusetts Appeals Court (1999-2000)

Law Clerk to the Honorable Gerald Gillerman for one-year term

Rotating Clerk for 1-year term with all Justices of MA Appeals’ Court Professional Organizations

Legislation

Bill Introduced by House Financial Services Committee: A New International Finance Court

Dodd-Frank Act: Reviewed and made modifications to the Dodd-Frank Act – reforms to Sections relating to Whistleblower Awards and Retaliation

International Effort for a New International Finance Court – 2009-2010 – EU-US Dialogue

Publications

Book

Co-Author - No One Would Listen, 2010, John Wiley & Sons

Documentary film

Associate Producer – Chasing Madoff, 2011

Presentations

Presentation before the World Legal Forum at The Hague (Dec. 2009) and before CIFA in Monaco (2010): “Integration – Towards a New International Finance Court.” The first call for a new cross-jurisdictional court to transparently adjudicate financial fraud and other multi-jurisdictional claims against Multinational financial institutions, funds, and companies.

Presentation Before CIFA (Convention of Independent Financial Advisors, the only organization of financial advisors recognized by the United Nations) in Monaco: “Whistleblower Protections and Reforms in the Dodd-Frank Act” (2011).

Speaker before Hedge Fund investors, Harvard Law School, the University of London, Suffolk Law School, Bentley Business School: Financial Institutions, the Madoff Fraud and Fraud Investigation

Speaker before business and professional venues on the internationalization of legal education, outsourcing, and international intellectual property law

Presentation Before Aruba Congress of 1000 Women – Women’s Leadership – a Leadership of Care (2012)

Other

Gaytri Kachroo, Integrating Madoff: Towards a New International Finance Court, paper delivered to the World Legal Forum at the Hague, Dec. 2009.

Gaytri Kachroo, Mapping Alimony: From Status to Contract and Beyond, 5 Pierce L. Rev. 163, 2007

Gaytri Devi Kachroo, Outsourcing to India: Transnational Law and Culture, Int'l Quarterly, Oct. 2007

Gaytri Kachroo, Self-Determination in International Law – The Kashmir Conflict, LLM Thesis, Harvard Law School, 1995

Gaytri Kachroo, Children, Violence and Law, LLM thesis, McGill University, 1990

Gaytri Kachroo, The Elderly Person and the Exercise of the Rights to the Administration of his Property, Editions Yvon Blais, 1987

Gaytri Kachroo, Self-Determination in International Law – The Israel-Palestine Conflict, 1980, McGill Law School

Professional associations

Global Alliance of Madoff Lawyers (Feb. 2009-2012) – As Vice- Chair of The Madoff Global Alliance, which comprises more than 50 law firms and 5000 lawyers from approximately 28 countries, Gaytri Kachroo created the Alliance’s initiative of a new International Finance Court, along with other possible substantive proposals for regulation of financial services sector. She coordinated the effort with Alliance members as well as with UNCITRAL, members of the U.S. Congress and other U.S. governmental agencies and experts in the financial services sector.

World Boston (2008 – Present) - Gaytri Kachroo serves as Chairman and Board member. World Boston brings international visitors, professionals in all industry sectors, and governmental delegates to Boston to educate and expand Boston business, education and the professional community. World Boston is a member of the World Affairs Council.

Boston Bar Association (2005-2009) - International Law Section – She acted as co-chair of the international law section of the Boston Bar Association for a number of years, supervising and innovating and chairing a number of events in the Boston area for lawyers and the public.