Born on 26th June 1981, Shireen Irani is a student at law. After graduating from Kodaikanal International School, located in South India, she went on to study International Relations with Development Studies at Sussex University, spending her third year in University of Amsterdam upon receiving an EU grant.

After working in the corporate social responsibility department of HSBC, Shireen initiated a fair trade project, promoting Indian wildlife artists and conservationists. Amazed by the talent of local artists, who specialise in depicting the Bengal tiger in Ranthambhore, she spends her free time advancing their art in the UK, holding exhibitions in London, the Midlands, Bristol and Kent.

In 2004, Shireen completed her masters degree in International Economic Law at Warwick University. With a burgeoning interest in corporate accountability issues, her dissertation focused on the concept of third-party liability in international law, in order to hold multinational corporations liable for egregious human rights abuses in developing countries.

Shireen went on to work with Judith Chomsky, a human rights attorney litigating under the auspices of the legal advocacy organisation in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights. Working on groundbreaking corporate accountability cases such as Doe v. Unocal and Wiwa v. Shell has led Shireen to commit herself to legal advocacy in this area.