Hoda Asgarian completed her bachelor’s degree in law at Allameh Tabatabayi University in Iran. Driven by her fascination with international affairs, she pursued an LLM in International Law at the same university, and later specialised in and earned a second LLM in Maritime Law from Lund University in Sweden.
Hoda is licensed to practice law in Iran and has extensive experience as a sole practitioner and as an in-house legal counsel at Unilever, among other multinational corporations. Hoda has published several academic articles and is currently a Ph.D. student at Bond University in Australia, and her research focuses on environmental law and climate change, which she considers one of the most pressing international issues of our time.