Niranjan Jose is a master’s candidate in International Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, where his research examines the development and operationalisation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) as a legal norm in the context of energy transition mineral mining in the Brazilian Amazon. His thesis traces FPIC’s evolution through the United Nations and Inter-American human rights systems since the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples before testing its implementation through two case studies in Pará: Vale’s Onça Puma nickel mine and Glencore’s bauxite operations at the Mineração Rio do Norte mine. The APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship will support the completion of his fieldwork analysis, including the stakeholder interviews conducted during his three-month research stay in Brazil, as well as travel to present his findings at the FECAP Business School Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Business and Human Rights. Niranjan holds a bachelor’s degree in law and is currently an intern at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
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