Jonathan Andrew

Dr Jonathan Andrew works as a Research Fellow on the Geneva Human Rights Platform’s initiative providing support for the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council. In this context, he is developing an assessment tool for impact evaluation of the contribution made by communications and country visits of the thematic and country mandates.

Besides his work at the Geneva Academy, Dr Andrew is also the Data Protection Advisor to the Consortium of 14 partner institutions of the EU Horizon 2020 project 'ITFlows'.

Dr Andrew formerly worked at the European University Institute (EUI) as Project Manager for SURVEILLE, a cross-disciplinary collaborative research project funded by the European Commission, where he focused on the impact of the surveillance of mobile devices on freedom of movement, assembly and association. Before joining the EUI, he worked as a Senior Legal Adviser with the Danish Refugee Council. His professional experience includes consulting in IT and business process re-engineering.

Dr Andrew holds a PhD in Public International Law from the European University Institute and the Academy of European Law’s Diploma. His doctoral thesis examined the concept of locational privacy in relation to human mobility, focusing on how the classification and terminology of technologies influence the construct of legal metaphors in bridging gaps in applying existing context and precedent.