Punam is Assistant General Counsel at Mercer (part of the Marsh McLennan Group). As a London based corporate lawyer, she has 10+ years’ experience of working in City law firms and within the financial services industry, across a range of regulatory issues, commercial matters, complex multi-party litigation, data protection, and more recently, advising on Sustainability/ESG issues at Board level. As a senior in-house professional (and commercial litigator by training), Punam is a keen horizon scanner and an advocate for mitigating risk as early as possible. Punam is also a Co-Opted Governor at Colvestone Primary School in Hackney and is passionate about education and improving social mobility for young people.