Hamsa Vijayaraghavan is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Migration and Asylum Project, India's first and only center for studying forced migration. Hamsa's work advocates for a cohesive movement towards safe migration in the region by making the Rule of Law central to addressing human rights challenges. Hamsa also works to secure opportunities for the rehabilitation of the displaced populations. She has previously worked as an asylum and immigration adviser in the UK and with the UNHCR field office in India, as well as at the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India and UNICEF, where she drafted the rules for the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. Hamsa graduated a master's from the University of Rouen, France, on an Erasmus Mundus scholarship and a law degree from Symbiosis Law School, India.