Esha Kamboj is an Attorney Advisor at the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce. As an Attorney Advisor, Esha works on legal reform and economic development issues in countries within the Asia-Pacific Region.

Before joining CLDP, Esha spent six years as an attorney in the International Arbitration practice at Norton Rose Fulbright in New York and Washington, D.C., where she focused on complex cross-border disputes, including international arbitration, arbitration-related litigation such as the enforcement of arbitration awards and agreements, and complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts. She represented corporate clients and foreign sovereigns across a diverse range of industries, including energy, infrastructure, insurance and reinsurance, banking and finance, securities, pharmaceuticals, and real estate. Esha was also a guest lecturer for Georgetown University Law Center and the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C., where she taught courses on international investor-state and commercial arbitration.

Esha received her law degree, cum laude,  from Notre Dame Law School in 2017, where she focused her curriculum on international law and spent a portion of her legal studies in London, United Kingdom. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012, graduating with high honors in Global Studies and French. Prior to law school, Esha served as an Assistant de Langue at the Lycée de Villaroy in Guyancourt, France for the Teaching Assistant in Program in France (TAPIF). Esha is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and New York, as well as in the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Southern District of New York. She is fluent in Hindi and has advanced proficiency in French.