Rachel Manser joins Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as Chief Knowledge Officer

Rachel Manser has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as Chief Knowledge Officer. She will be based in the firm's Mumbai office..Manser is an England & Wales qualified solicitor with an English and German Law degree..Before joining CAM, Manser worked at Linklaters for almost twenty years, most recently as a Director leading Knowledge and learning (K&L) globally. She was responsible for the firm’s K&L strategy, knowledge management, client K&L, knowledge technologies, information and research, data governance, and learning and development. In addition, Rachel was responsible for setting up the firm’s strategy and approach to innovation and was an active member of the Innovation Steering Group from its inception. Prior to her role as a Director leading Knowledge & Learning, Rachel was a Professional Support Lawyer specializing in competition law at both Linklaters and Allen & Overy..On her joining, Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas said,“I am thrilled to welcome Rachel to the firm. Knowledge Management, including thought leadership and innovation, is essential to our firm’s ethos. We are putting knowledge at the center of the firm. Rachel joining us will bring decades of global and best practices. This will further boost our offerings within the firm and to our clients.”.Rachel Manser herself said, "It is a tremendous honour to be asked to work alongside the eminent lawyers at CAM to harness their extensive knowledge and expertise as a core part of the firm’s future growth strategy. The firm rightly enjoys a superb reputation both in India and internationally and I am delighted to be part of the team and to work towards taking the knowledge systems to global levels.”.If you would like your Deals, Columns, Press Releases to be published on Bar & Bench, please fill in the form available here.