ICODR Podcast Episode 10: Chittu Nagarajan, Founder and CEO of CREKODR

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Chittu Nagarajan, Founder and CEO of CREKODR, as well as co-founder of odr.com. Chittu co-created Modria.com and served as Managing Director of Modria India.  She also founded ODRworld and ODRindia, the first Online Dispute Resolution Service Provider in India in 2004. She served as Head of the eBay and Pay Pal Community Court initiative.

Chittu is a Fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A and served as the Conference Chair for the 10th International Online Dispute Resolution Working Forum, held from February 7-9, 2011 in Chennai, India. She also is a founding board member of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution.

Chittu was a speaker at the International Online Dispute Resolution Forum in December 2007, Hong Kong; the United Nations Online Dispute Resolution Forum in June 2008, Victoria, Canada; the International Online Dispute Resolution Forum in June 2009, Haifa, Israel; the International symposium on Online Dispute Resolution, September 2009, Barcelona, Spain and the International Online Dispute Resolution Forum in June 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chittu was a speaker at the Micro-finance course conducted by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and is a Regular Evaluator at the International Competitions for Online Dispute Resolution.

• The 2023 ODR Forum: https://odr2023.org
• Agami – the access to justice agency promoting ODR and hosting the Forum: https://agami.in [Note not Agaami, as mentioned in the call]
• Agami’s ODR pages: https://agami.in/odr/ 
• Indian Government Policy on ODR: https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2021-11/odr-report-29-11-2021.pdf

                       

Chittu Nagarajan

Chittu Nagarajan is currently Head of Community Courts, eBay & PayPal and Chief Mediator and Head of ODRWORLD.com. Chittu holds a first degree in History and a second degree in Law (UK). She has as a Legal Practicing Certificate and is a trained Mediator. Chittu’s passion is in Online Dispute… MORE >

                       

Ian MacDuff

Ian is Teaching Fellow, Centre for ICT Law at Auckland Law School. He was, until June 2016, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Initiative at Singapore Management University. He previously taught at Victoria University of Wellington for a number of years. He has been a practising… MORE >