Akshay Sinha

Akshay Sinha is Senior Advisor, Policy and Traceability at Neville Peterson LLP and is currently based in New Delhi.  Formerly based in Washington, DC, Mr. Sinha has fifteen years of experience in advising governments, industry organizations, and companies across various industries (consumer goods, agriculture, metals, chemicals, etc.) on policy and regulatory relating to international trade, labor, sustainability, and traceability matters across global supply chains.

Mr. Sinha’s advisory and advocacy work centres on the intersection of international trade and supply chain traceability. He has supported clients across Asia, North and Central America, Europe, and the Middle East in optimizing duty exposure, ensuring regulatory compliance, and building transparent, resilient and responsible supply chains. In this role, he has helped obtain approximately $15 million in duty savings for clients through leveraging preference programs and rules of origin.  In addition, he has also helped clear nearly $5 million in UFLPA-related detentions before U.S. Customs and Border Protection while maintaining a 100 percent success record in clearing UFLPA detentions

Mr. Sinha’s work spans end-to-end chain-of-custody systems, supplier due diligence frameworks, documentation and data validation processes, and the integration of scientific, transactional, and operational best practices into state-of-the-art origin, labor, and environmental programs. In addition to advisory support, Mr. Sinha also provides targeted advocacy and stakeholder engagement across governments, industry associations, non-profits, academia, and the media to help clients navigate emerging policy design and enforcement environments.

Beyond trade and traceability, Mr. Sinha has experience in policy analysis, institutional strengthening, business process improvement, and sustainability strategy.  He has also published articles in several well-known institutions, including The Indian Express, The Print, and Fiber2Fashion Magazine.

Mr. Sinha has a Masters’ in Public Policy from Georgetown University, an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a Bachelors’ in Physics with Honors from Hindu College at the University of Delhi.