Shruti Rana is the Assistant Provost for Strategic Faculty Initiatives and a Professor of Law at the University of Missouri. In her administrative role, she fosters faculty development, inclusion, and success, spearheads faculty development programs, and supports faculty recruitment, retention and promotion efforts. 

Prior to joining Mizzou, she served as senior assistant dean for curricular and undergraduate affairs and diversity officer at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, where she was also a professor and director of the International Law & Institutions Program. Her legal scholarship focuses on international law and global governance, including international women's human rights issues (most recently women's leadership and advancement in academia and the judiciary, the impacts of the gendered care crisis, and transnational human rights advocacy). She has also testified on abortion access before legislators in Indiana and New York and worked with a variety of community and advocacy groups on reproductive justices issues.

Her other professional experience includes serving as a professor at the University of Maryland Law School, where she co-developed the school’s international law clinic, and a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law. She has also served as Of Counsel at Brooks Pierce LLP, where she helped grow the firm’s international law practice, and as a Social Affairs Officer at the United Nations, where she analyzed international and domestic treaty obligations for the Commission on the Status of Women. Rana’s other legal experience includes serving as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. James R. Browning at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practicing in the areas of international, corporate and regulatory law at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC and Quinn Emanuel LLP in San Francisco. She obtained her JD from Columbia Law School, MSc from the London School of Economics, and BA from the University of California, Berkeley.