Anand Grover, is a designated Senior Advocate, practicing in the Supreme Court of India and the Director of the Lawyer’s Collective (India), which has offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
He was the UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (Right to Health) by the UN Human Rights Council from August 2008 to July 2014.
Grover is a well-known long-time advocate and activist on HIV and human rights. He has argued many cases at the Delhi High Court, as well as the Indian Supreme Court, including: the rights of people living with HIV (including the first HIV case in India relating to employment law), on sexual diversity (including the case which decriminalized homosexuality in the Delhi High Court), sexual harassment at the workplace, patent cases to make medicines accessible in developing countries, as well as the rights of sex workers and persons who use drugs (death penalty for drug users).
Grover was a member of the drafting group of the International Guidelines on Human Rights & HIV/AIDS and is a member of the Lancet-University of Oslo Panel on Global Governance of Health.
He joined the Global Commission on Drug Policy in 2014.