Seema is EY's Global Immigration Leader for Government Affairs and Financial Services. She works with global governments on transformative, and ESG values-driven, immigration policy. Seema supports EY clients on global immigration, cross-border remote work, strategic global talent location, M&A, risk, compliance and multi-jurisdiction private client cases.
Seema has spent 20 years at the cutting-edge of immigration law, practicing at leading chambers in complex immigration, extradition and international law cases before moving to corporate practice. She has co-authored award-winning reports on immigration policy and was the Consultancy Lead for Talent and Skills in the UK’s landmark Kalifa Review of Fintech.
Seema led EY’s Brexit, EMEIA PAS COVID-19 and war in Ukraine responses. She holds a Doctorate in International Law (PhD) from the London School of Economics in International Armed Conflict Law, Master of Laws with Distinction, and Bachelor of Laws (Honours).
How Seema is building a better working world
“My role is to protect and enable EY’s global clients and their people as they navigate complex regulatory frameworks at a time of continued disruption, reframing collective futures, and doing better around unseen individual challenges, unconscious bias, DEI and sustainability. I am proud to co-lead EY’s initiatives around refugee employment integration and have throughout my career acted pro bono extensively in cases supporting refugees, families in difficult cross-border circumstances, internally displaced persons and those at risk of destitution.”
