Laila Kasuri is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London looking at increasing participation and inclusion of Indigenous peoples and their values in global water governance processes and discourses. Her research deals with issues of water justice, equity, water rights and ontological pluralism especially as it pertains to Indigenous peoples.

Prior to joining Imperial, Ms. Kasuri had been working for the last twelve years on the breadth of global water issues, with organizations such as the World Bank and the Global Green Growth Institute, in multiple countries including Canada, the United States, Pakistan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Jordan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso and the four countries of the Lake Chad (Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria). In her most recent role, she worked as a Senior Advisor with the Assembly of First Nations in Canada working on issues around Indigenous water stewardship, federal regulations and policies related to climate and biodiversity, environmental regulations (CEPA), federal safe drinking water and freshwater issues and the linkages of these issues with UN human rights declarations.

She graduated with a Bachelors (Hons.) in environmental sciences and engineering (ESE) from Harvard University with a minor in East Asian Studies, and a Masters Degree from University of California, Davis in Environmental Engineering.