Sharanya Mitchell

Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory and International Legal at Cohen & Steers

Sharanya is Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory & International Legal at Cohen & Steers, a publicly listed global asset manager with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore. Based in New York, she is a seasoned legal executive who advises on domestic and international regulatory matters, including corporate and fund governance, trading, cross-border sales, marketing and distribution, data privacy, and ESG/sustainability initiatives.

She oversees legal affairs for the firm's international affiliates, funds, and boards, and serves as a director of UCITS funds distributed in more than 30 jurisdictions globally. Prior to joining Cohen & Steers, she advised on financial regulation at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and served as Special Counsel at NYSE. Earlier in her career, she worked in London in both private and public sector roles, including advising on financial regulation in-house at Banque AIG during the global financial crisis and on policy matters at Her Majesty's Courts Service within the UK Ministry of Justice.

Sharanya holds an LL.M. with honors from Columbia Law School, an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of London, an Executive Education Diploma in Capital Markets Regulation and Compliance from Henley Business School and FINRA International, and a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) from the University of New South Wales. She is an active member of the Institutional Investors Legal Forum, the Investment Company Institute, and the New York City Bar Association, where she serves on both the Compliance Committee and the Foreign & Comparative Law Committee.