Abhishek Bharti

Abhishek Bharti (India) holds a Master of Laws in International Law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, USA, and a B.A. LL.B. (Honours) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He has been active in the field of ethics and compliance for the last nine years, having worked with multinational corporations and the Supreme Court of India. He has worked as a pro bono legal teacher at a state university and an NGO in India, and has published articles on taxation reforms, labour regulations, human rights, and corporate ethics in leading journals. Abhishek attended IACA’s Summer Academy in 2015. He joined the Academy’s Compliance and Collective Action Team in December 2015 and the Alumni Team in spring 2016.

India‘s Gilded Age – Course Correction or Course Continuity?

The famous American author Mark Twain is credited with coining the term “Gilded Age” to satirize a period in U.S. history of grave social concerns veiled by a golden veneer.1 The main social problem he had in mind was “corruption”, which characterized the era. That period saw a huge gap in income distribution as the …

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