Rana previously 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. At IU, Rana developed and strengthened curricular, experiential and global learning opportunities and partnerships, and worked on a number of school and campus initiatives to enhance student success and retention as well as equity and inclusion for faculty and students. She is also a legal scholar who has published widely in law journals and other media in the areas of international law, global governance and equality, and has been a primary investigator on several major grants including most recently a multinational collaboration under an Australian Discovery Project grant.

Rana has a broad range of leadership and other experience in academia, legal practice and community organizations. She was 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. 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. Rana has also served on a number of professional and community boards and actively volunteers in her local communities.