Researchers

Annyssa Bellal's areas of expertise include public international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law and armed non-state actors.

Adriana Bessa's research areas include the rights of traditional local communities, the draft declaration on the rights of peasants and the right to food.

Joanna Bourke Martignoni's research areas include the right to food, land commercialization, climate change, the right to education and gender equality.

Christophe Golay's expertise relates to economic, social and cultural rights, the right to food and the rights of peasants.

Dr Jonathan Andrew works as Research Fellow in the Geneva Human Rights Platform where he conducts research on the intersection of information technology with human rights law.

Helene Ramos dos Santos is the Senior Fellow–UN Liaison Officer in Geneva for the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI).

Chiara Redaelli's areas of expertise include international humanitarian law, jus ad bellum, and international human rights law.

Alice Priddy's current main research areas concern the rights of persons with disabilities during and in the immediate aftermath of armed conflict.

As Special Projects Manager, Kamelia Kemileva coordinates projects of the Geneva Human Rights Platform.

Émilie Max's research focuses s on the intersection between international humanitarian law and international human rights law

Claire Simmons conducts research on investigations in situations of armed conflict under the directorship of Professor Noam Lubell, Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy.

Stefania Di Stefano is Project Assistant at the Geneva Academy and a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies since 2018.

Her areas of expertise include legal anthropology, international human rights, the history of human rights, migration and the UN treaty body system.

Her areas of expertise include international human rights law, the United Nations Human Rights machinery and refugee law.

Clément Nyaletsossi Voule is Associate Researcher at the Geneva Academy and UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association. He is also Senior Advisor at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).

His doctoral project focuses on causal mechanisms related to National Human Rights Institutions engagement with the UN Human Rights treaty body system.

Milos Hrnjaz is an Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science where he teaches Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law.

Daniel Mekonnen is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy and the Director of the Eritrean Law Society (ELS).

Peter Vedel Kessing is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Lecturer in international security law at the Faculty of Law of Copenhagen University.