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Sumitomo Foundation grant for Indian academic

The Sumitomo Foundation of Japan has awarded C. Raj Kumar, a Lecturer and Deputy Director of the WTO Law and Dispute Resolution Centre (WTODR Centre), School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, a grant to pursue research on the theme: "Corruption and Human Rights — Promoting Transparency in Governance in Hong Kong, Japan and India".

The research grant was awarded to him in the category of "Fiscal 2002 grant for Japan-related research projects". He was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford and a Landon H. Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School and has obtained Masters' degrees in Law from both Oxford and Harvard Universities.

The research project is significant as it will be conducted on the basis of a comparative study over a period of one year of laws, rules, regulations, institutions and other mechanisms in these countries aimed at preventing corruption and promoting transparency and accountability in governance.

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