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Lambrini Tzorela is a lawyer with specialty in Migration Law, and has been a member of the Thessaloniki Lawyer’s Bar Association since 2018.

She was a postgraduate student in «Public Law and Political Science» in the Faculty of Law of the Democritus University of Thrace and is highly interested in human rights, refugee rights and gender-based violence.

Lambrini works in the non-governmental organization “Greek Council for Refugees” since September 2022. offering free legal aid in the entire spectrum of refugee law and mainly in the field of administrative detention.

Between June 2020-September 2022, Lambrini has been working in a non-governmental organization on the island of Lesvos (Moria, Kara Tepe and Mavrovouni camp), providing legal support exclusively to applicants and asylum seekers, having handled a large number cases of victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking.

Between 2017-2020, Lambrini was an associate attorney in the law firm of Anastassios Valtoudis (Professor
at the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Attorney in Supreme
Court).

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After graduating from the Law School of Ankara University in 2012, Sibel began a
master's program in public law at the same university. Meanwhile, she started her internship, receiving the Attorney’s Certificate in 2013.

In 2014, Sibel was assigned to the Law School at Bursa Uludağ University as a research assistant, and now she is an associate professor in the department of constitutional law.
As she wanted to focus on refugee rights, Sibel wrote my master's thesis about the temporary protection regime, making presentations and writing articles related to refugee law.

During the doctorate programme, which started in 2015, Sibel was at the Free University of Berlin for ten months (2018-2019) and learned German. After that, Sibel researched at the University of Innsbruck/Austria for six months. She then defended the doctoral dissertation in June 2022, and continued her studies on human rights, especially refugee rights.

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Practicing lawyer for the past fifteen years, Member of Greek Council for Refugees’ Legal Unit since 2016, having worked as a lawyer in the FLA programme of Greek Council for Refugees, followingly as a legal professional in a protected shelter hosting vulnerable families (both seeking or granded refugee status), as a reception lawyer in an open door policy, as a provider of legal counselling and representation to persons claiming asylum or recognized refugees.

Vivi holds a degree in Law and a Master's degree in Criminal Law and Procedures, and has attended multiple UNHCR, IOM, NGO organized conferences and seminars on International Protection, mainly focused on GBV and violence against women in
particular.

Vivi is a member of the Committee of the Hellenic Bar Association on the Tackling of
Domestic and Family Violence.

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After graduating from the Faculty of Law and completing the master's studies at the Department of Criminal Justice, Department of Juvenile Delinquency, Edina gained experience in the field of international law and migration through my work in the Association “Vaša prava BiH”, where she started working as a Legal Associate in the Team for Asylum in January 2018.

The engagement in the Association includes providing free legal aid to persons of concern represented by the Association (asylum seekers, refugees, persons under the subsidiary protection and other persons in need of protection) through providing necessary information and representation before the competent authorities.

Through her work in the aforementioned position, Edina has encountered numerous cases of different nature, as well as challenges and she believes that participation in this Forum will be of significant benefit for further action in this area of law.

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Carla Trimmer was born and raised in Mexico.
She holds a BA in International Relations from The Mexican Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM), where she published the Thesis: Power Asymmetries between countries of transit and countries of origin on bilateral migration agreements: Comparison case of Turkey and Mexico

Carla has more than 5 years of experience as a volunteer and later intern in the area of durable solutions in the organization Casa Refugiados. Casa Refugiados is based in Mexico City and focuses on providing social, psychological, and economic assistance to forcibly displaced persons in the central region of Mexico. As a volunteer, Carla provided workshops with the purpose of social harmonization for the arriving asylum seekers and supported the strengthening and creation of partnerships with actors from different sectors.

From 2019 to 2021, Carla was assigned to the Cash-Based Interventions Project as the CBI Specialist and Manager. The CBI project was a community-based approach used to provide humanitarian assistance to
the applicants of refugee status recognition and refugees in the city.

Currently, Carla lives in Istanbul, volunteering with different organizations suchas Small Projects Istanbul, Help Afghans Now and Conversations on Consent to continue learning from
different contexts, projects and the best humanitarian practices.

Carla is also a graduate student in
Boğaziçi University, in the program of International Relations with a focus on Turkey, Europe and Middle
East.

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Sofija Zumrova is a Lawyer form North Macedonia.
Between 2015 and 2016 Sofija worked with the Macedonian Young Lawyers Association, and was in charge of providing legal advice and assistance to asylum seekers, refugees, persons under
subsidiary protection and stateless persons in procedure. These, Sofija had direct daily contact and communication with refugees and authorities. She also performed monitoring and evaluation of overall situation and drafting reports for
the task and services provided.

Until 2021, Sofija worked for UNHCR as Protection Assistant (until 2020) and then as Supply Chain Assistant.
There, she participated in Protection Monitoring activities, ensuring presence and mobility throughout the country, with emphasis on the South Border. She assisted the Government to align the country’s legal and institutional asylum framework with International as well European standard in the contexts of the EU accession process, and she also worked towards improving asylum practices by ensuring access to and provision of quality
Protection by national authorities to person seeking asylum in the country.

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Irene is a Human Rights trainee and currently serves as Junior Researcher at the 3 rd Standing Committees on Dialogue among Civilization and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Throughout her academic and professional career, she has lived in Palestine, Germany, Türkiye, and San Marino, where she had the opportunity to specialize in sustainable development and global politics.

After getting a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations, Irene graduated 🤬 laude from the University of Siena in Environmental and Development Economics in 2021, with a Master’s thesis in political philosophy addressing the inequality of meritocracy as a theory of
justice. Her main research interest concerns social and environmental justice.

In 2022, she joined the European Solidarity Corps in the border city of Gaziantep, where she supported the organization and implementation of non-formal education activities with Syrian refugees and Turkish coming from vulnerable backgrounds, with the aim of facilitating integration and social inclusion. There, she collaborated with youth and cultural centres supported by the government, NGOs, and IOM.

At the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, she currently conducts research on mass migration, refugees, gender equality, and climate change. She monitors the policy development in
the region and elaborates policy recommendations to Member States, in order to eliminate any political, social and economic obstacles that prevent a person from living a life with dignity.

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Josephine Kiguru is an enthusiastic protection professional with over 11 years of work experience working for
asylum seekers, refugees, IDPs and other forced migrants.

Josephine has worked with various entities including National and International organization in different countries including North East Syria, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Kenya.

She has a firm grounding on protection and rule of law from her legal education background and also with various work experiences ranging from general protection, legal protection, protection from gender based violence, child protection, protection for victims of trafficking,
community based protection, legislative drafting, lobbying and advocacy for protection legislations of forced migrants.

Her other core competencies include collaborative initiatives on durable solutions for the displaced persons, protection integration & mainstreaming, protection analysis and risk reduction strategies in an emergency and/or protracted setting.

Josephine also has a track record in cluster coordination and advocating for the rights of forced migrants with State and Non-State actors at national and regional level in support for a common goal.

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Maria de los Angeles is a research fellow in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Her research addresses children on move, refugee law, and irregular migration.

She has developed research related to unaccompanied children on the move in Mexican Southern-Border, and refugee protection, migration governance and diaspora engagement, as well as the genealogic analysis of public policies related togovernance of vulnerable groups.

Most recently, her research explores the initiatives promoted by diaspora organizations in the United States of America regarding the protection of displaced unaccompanied children from Central America.

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Corina Dodi has been an Associated Professor at the KROK University, Kyiv, Ukraine for more than ten years. Her teaching disciplines are: International Public Law, International
Private Law, International Humanitarian Law and Constitutional Law.

Before teaching at the University, Corina Dodi worked as a Project Coordinator for the Moldovan Association of International Humanitarian Law (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova).

Corina Dodi finished her Ph.D. studies in International Law in 2011 in the sphere of
International Humanitarian Law (Historical and juridical regulation of non-international armed conflicts).

She is the author of a number of publications in different journals and reviews.

Ms Dodi participated in different seminars, conferences, round tables, and summer
schools such as: Summer School "Transitional justice in Central and Eastern
Europe - Coping with the Communist", Berlin, Germany; International School
“Transitional Justice – world experience and Ukrainian context”, Kharkiv,
Ukraine; European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) Summer School Lviv,
Ukraine; Summer School “Safety in Danger”, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Kyiv,
Ukraine etc.
Also,she is a member of the Lviv Center for International Law and Human
Rights.

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Janja Simentić Popović is the Assistant Professor in International and EU law at the University of
Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science, Serbia.
In 2021 she completed her PhD studies at the same faculty (International and European Studies) by
defending the PhD thesis “Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the field of
asylum”. Areas of her current scientific work and interest are international humanitarian law,
international refugee law, EU asylum law and the role of the Court of Justice of the EU. In these
areas, she wrote ten scientific articles published in national and international journals and she
presented her research at six international conferences.
She was engaged as the consultant for writing four different research studies (on Serbian Law on
Asylum and Temporary Protection; on Self-determination in South Africa; on University Curriculum
on Transitional Justice; on the Rule of Law in the Republic of Serbia).
In 2022 Simentić Popović successfully completed the online Specialists’ Course on International
Refugee Law, organized by UNHCR, International Institute of Humanitarian Law and University of
Belgrade - Faculty of Law.
Simentić Popović participated in several international and national projects, both as participant and
as Project Manager. Janja works with students in preparation for participation at moot courts in
international humanitarian and refugee law. From 2011 she worked with 7 teams who achieved
excellent results at these moot courts.
Simentić Popović is a member of several scientific associations in the field of international law (e.g.
European Society of International Law) and programme coordinator at NGO Belgrade International
Law Circle.

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Dmytro Reznichenko was born in the heart of Ukraine. In 2018, he graduated from Kharkiv National Law University and then continued his university studies in Lithuania and France.

Dmytro started a career as an international lawyer at the International Law Firm. At this position he was mainly working with legal entities. Therefore, he took part in claims handling, prepared letters of claim, drafted settlement agreements, participated in negotiations between the parties to the contract, drafted and submitted various legal documents in the arbitration process under the arbitration rules of GAFTA /LMAA/LCIA.

He is currently a consul at the Embassy of Ukraine in Lebanon, where he is responsible for the protection of legal rights and interests of Ukrainians temporarily or permanently residing in Lebanon. Dmytro carries out consular reception of Ukrainians in the Lebanese Republic (citizenship issues/passport issues/immigration issues/consular registration/issues of obtaining visas/local documents).
He also take part in crisis-management cases.

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Alaa Hadid holds a MA in “Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action”, and a BA in “Arts and Social Studies”.

She worked with different government and academic institutions in several countries like Qatar, Iraq and other Middle Eastern locations. Alaa has worked with the International Crisis Group, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia (Georgia) among others.

Alaa has professional experience in program planning, implementation, policy advocacy and management. She is now a project manager at an Iraqi NGO focusing on the prevention of violent extremism.

Moreover, she has academic publications in the field of peace, conflict and political science, including a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Asian Affairs titled “Stable Jordan: How A Monarchy Survived Disorder” and a book chapter by Routledge titled “Challenges to Youth Civic Engagement and Community Development in Syria”.

My research outlines the context of the Nineveh governorate in Iraq and the role of women in the current peace process. The goal of this research is to shed light on women participation, or lack thereof, in peacebuilding activities in the governorate in light of the UNSCR 1325 doctrine.
Women’s participation in Nineveh is outlined in several aspects starting from the lack of their participation in political decision-making and their involvement in peacebuilding activities.
Nineveh governorate is situated under the turbulent context in the whole country of Iraq. The situation in the country and dynamics of the conflict help us situate the northern-west governorate of Nineveh challenges better.

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Nour Al-Wattar, 28 years old, from Damascus-Syria, is a third-year PhD student at Corvinus University doctoral school of International Relations and Political Science in
Budapest-Hungary.

She pursued a master’s degree in European and International Business Law at Károli Gáspár University in Hungary a
Bachelor of Law, Legal Studies, at Damascus University-Faculty of Law.

She has training experience in Baker McKenzie Law firm in Budapest and in the Specialized International Law Firm and Arbitration in Syria.

Always been interested in migration studies, Nour is doing a PhD research on the Protection of Human Rights of
Women Within the Context of International Migration Crisis.

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National Justice Program Officer at Justice Rapid Response, Geneva

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Juliette Leoni currently carries out programmatic activities in support of national justice processes and accountability mechanisms at Justice Rapid Response, in Geneva.

Her previous experience includes working in an international criminal law firm, development non-governmental organizations and as a Protection Officer within the French administration OFPRA. In this capacity, she was in charge of Refugee Status Determination, interviewing asylum seekers and working on numerous asylum cases related to gender-based violence. Juliette holds a MA in Law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a LL.M in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from SOAS University of London. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Italian.

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Cynthia has worked at IOM for seven years. She is experienced in human movements and in aid delivery to Afghanistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Lebanon.

In her capacity as IOM Germany’s PSEA Focal Point, Cynthia is currently working on the Protection of Beneficiaries from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the context conflict in Ukraine.

Cynthia is a human rights lawyer with 20 years international experience. She holds a specialist qualification in employment law and is an accredited international mediator. After a successful career in litigation, she has renewed her interest in alternative dispute resolution, conflict transformation and peace building.

Cynthia’s practice, in and out of court, has always been rights based with a focus on defending minorities and vulnerable groups; in particular in employment law, anti-discrimination, rights advocacy, administrative law, international migration law, international refugee law, and child protection.

Cynthia is an Australian citizen. She has lived in Sydney, London, and Vienna. Her current duty station is “Nuremberg, the City of Peace and Human Rights” in Germany.

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UNHCR Associate Child Protection Officer

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May is a protection Specialist with UNHCR with eleven years of experience inclusive of two emergency operations (Syria
emergency operation in Jordan & currently Ukraine emergency operation in Slovakia). She has been leading various child
protection aspects; prevention and response activities, case management, Best Interest Procedures to ensure that children under UNHCR mandate are able to access services, protected and their best interest is taking into consideration.
In addition, she has been providing  technical guidance and support considering child protection case management and procedures internally and externally (governmental entities and nation/internal parties).

She has been contributing to strengthening the quality of best interest determination for refugee children and inclusion
through advocacy with national entities and enhancing the national systems within the operation she has been serving. In
addition, taking rule in the planning programs for child protection and strengthening the quality of case management and partner coordination and monitoring CP partners implementation.

She has facilitated several professional specialized trainings to enhance the capacity building for CP staff and governmental personnel on various Child protection topics mainly best interest procedures, referral of CP cases,
interviewing techniques) to strengthen the response to service the best interest of children at risk, in addition to targeting
non-child protection specialized personal on safe referral and general child protection mandate.

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Evelyn Alisia Aro Karenio currently works at the European Union Agency for Asylum as a Reception Assistant-site management for the Ministry of Migration and Asylum in Greece. Her duty location is in Thiva Camp.

She started working in Thiva since August 2020, to support Reception and Identification Center’s site manager with the overall management of the camp, identify special needs of the beneficiaries and vulnerable groups of people, submit weekly reports for the HQ, and participate in coordination meetings along with the SMS partner. She also organizes capacity building workshop, trainings, seminars in coordination with partners and external actors.

For almost two years, she worked as Operations Assistant at the Regional Asylum Office in Thessaloniki with EUAA. According to the needs of the service, she informed applicants of international protection about their legal status, ensured the good communication between them and the service, and supported in managing teams of persons allocated to the implementation of daily activities, including day-to day coordination.

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Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/هي) is a Canadian-Lebanese Scholar and Expert in Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies.
She is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Migration Studies.

In 2022, she became the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research's first ever Global Fellow on Migration and Inequality. She has served as a Visiting Professor at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace, an Adjunct Faculty Member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Global Institute of Law, as well as a Guest Lecturer at McGill University, Leiden University, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.

Dr. Diab is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Global Fellow at Brown University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, and Visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge and the Centre for Lebanese Studies' British Academy Bilateral Research Chair on Education in Conflict.

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University of Gondar Hospital, Gondar, Ethiopia

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Abera Abebe Zegeye received a Degree of Law (LL.B) from Dilla University (Ethiopia) in 2016 and a Masters of Law (LL.M - in Human Rights Law) from the University of Gondar (Ethiopia) in 2019.

Currently, he is serving as a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, at the University of Gondar. He has taught different legal courses including human rights law, humanitarian laws, jurisprudence, the rights of IDPs and refugees, the rights of
PWDs, and child rights.

He also serves as a Vice Director of the Legal Aid Center of the School of Law, University of Gondar; and also a Project Coordinator in a community engagement project of the University.

He published a research article on the right to self-determination, and two other research papers concerning Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) that were presented at National and International conferences.

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Dr. Oksana Koshulko is a Ukrainian social scientist, with a Lancaster University M.A. Degree in Economy and Society and a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences. Her areas of research are Gender, Migration, and Refugee Studies. Dr. Koshulko is a Ukrainian war refugee - scientist.

At the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, in Hamburg, Germany, she carry out a scientific project, entitled ‘Ukrainian War Refugees in the E.U.: Security, Challenges, Prospects.’

Her previous scientific project was at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich, where she explored and compared the situation of the war refugees in Germany and Poland in the scientific project, entitled ‘Refugeeism because of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Explanation, Analysis, Exploration.’

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Program Assistant, Refugee Law and Migration Center, "Iustinianus Primus" Law Faculty, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia

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Nikola Donev is currently enrolled in a masters program for International Public Law at the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus" - Skopje at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia. He currently works as the project assistant at the Refugee Law and Migration Center at the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus" - Skopje.

Nikola also serves as the Vice President for Science of the University Student Assembly at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Previous professional experiences of Nikola include working with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in North Macedonia, and Peace Corps North Macedonia.

His main area of academic interest are International Public Law, Human Rights Law and Conflict Resolution.

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Associate professor in political science, "Iustinianus Primus" Law Faculty, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia

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Irena Rajchinovska Pandeva is an associate professor in political science at the Iustinianus Primus Law Faculty at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She is a vice dean for science and international cooperation and Erasmus Coordinator, as well as a Head of the Refugee Law and Migration Center and project manager and mentor at the Refugee Law Clinic at the same Faculty.

She teaches several courses on both undergraduate and postgraduate level in four study programs. Since 2020 she is a member of the TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association, Brussels) Board.

Her research interests are focused on EU integration, identities, Europeanisation, geopolitics, conflicts, transition and migrations.

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University of the West of England - UWE Bristol, Coldharbour Lane, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, UK

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Christel Querton is a Wallscourt Fellow in Law at the University of the West of England (UWE).

Her doctoral research examined judicial interpretation of international refugee law in the cases of persons fleeing armed conflicts from a gender perspective.

She is a member of the Global Crime, Justice and Security Research Group at UWE and sits on the Editorial Board of the Refugee Law Initiative's Working Paper Series.

Her research adopts comparative, feminist and inter-disciplinary approaches to law. She has published in the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the Refugee Survey Quarterly, and her monograph "Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Policy" will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2023

Christel was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013 (Middle Temple) and practised at Lamb Building in asylum, immigration and human rights law.

She was a founding Trustee of the Asylum Research Centre Foundation (2016-2020) and a member of the Women’s Project Advisory Committee at Asylum Aid (2012-2019).

Christel was previously employed at Asylum Aid and Wilson Solicitors LLP.

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Ivana Krstić is a Full Professor of International Human Rights Law and a Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law. She teaches several courses, including the European Immigration Law and Policy, Non-discrimination Law, Gender Equality, and Minority Rights.

She obtained her LLM (2003) at the School of Law, University of Pittsburgh (USA), along with an LLM (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. In the academic year 2006/2007, she was a Chevening Scholar working on her Ph.D. research at the Exeter College, Oxford University.

She collaborates very closely with the Serbian Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and with the Judicial Academy and participates in the training of judges and other public officials. She has published several monographs and textbooks, around 20 handbooks, and more than 60 articles in international human rights law, international refugee law, and international public law.

She is currently a member of the Republic Commission for Transgender Persons.

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Director of the Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law

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Mr. Delfabro is an Argentinian-born protection specialist, international refugee law expert, and senior lecturer with more than 20 years of professional experience in forced displacement, Human Rights, and refugee protection. Throughout his career, he has worked in different conflict areas, including Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. In Latin America, he advised governments and civil society on refugee protection and statelessness-related issues. Mr. Delfabro was the first Head of the Protection Section at UNHCR’s Global Learning and Development Centre. In his most recent position at UNHCR, Mr. Delfabro served as Head of Protection in the largest UNHCR country operation in the world at the time, Lebanon. In 2016, he joined the Institute as Director of the Refugee Law and Migration Department. In his capacity, Mr. Delfabro has designed and developed over 100 specialized training and capacity-building initiatives and has delivered lectures and classes in more than 40 countries.

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Content Development Assistant, Academic Unit

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Keila is a Brazilian-Spanish citizen who has lived in multiple continents and practised her profession in over five jurisdictions. She is qualified in European and International law, graduating with honours from the University of Amsterdam. Her fields of expertise are human rights, environmental law and refugee protection.

To date, her career has contributed to efforts channelling justice around the world, particularly in Europe, South America and the Middle East. Prior to joining the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in October 2022, Keila worked for several non-governmental organisations, developing advocacy campaigns and conducting research to support public interest litigation. To her role at IIHL, Keila brings extensive experience in producing policy and legal reports on human rights issues, ranging from the abuse of refugees’ fundamental rights in the Netherlands to the nexus existing between gender-based violence and environmental displacement.

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Kristijan Mihajlovski comes from Skopje, North Macedonia. He joined the International Institute  of  Humanitarian  Law  in  Sanremo  in  February  2021  and  is  currently  the Academic  Unit  Coordinator  for  the  Department  of  International  Refugee  Law  and  Migration  Law.
He  obtained  a  Master’s  Degree  in  Public  International  Law  from  the  ‘Iustinianus Primus’ Law Faculty in Skopje, North Macedonia in 2015. He previously worked for 5 years with the Protection Unit at the UNHCR Representation in North Macedonia, where he was the focal point for the UNHCR’s partnership with academia. He also has experience working in the field with refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and other persons in need of protection, as well as on systemic legal issues, including drafting and comments on asylum legislation, RSD monitoring, judicial review and protection border monitoring in the context of mixed movements.

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Milano, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

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Federica Rizzi comes from Milan, Italy. She has recently obtained a Joint Master’s Degree in Global Economic Governance and Public Affairs from LUISS University and the Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE), for which she wrote her thesis on the key role played by third-country complementary pathways (specifically education pathways) in the field of refugee protection.

She previously worked as an intern with the Partnership and Coordination Service (PCS) at the UNHCR in Geneva, as part of the NGOs and Civil Society team, where her work focused on building partnerships with NGOs and FBOs to deliver optimal results for refugees, IDPs, and persons of concern. Prior to that, she was also an intern with OCHA’s Emergency Response Section in Geneva, where she was involved in the organisation and planning of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW2020).

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Academic Engagement Assistant

Arina holds bachelor's degree in Jurisprudence from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (2018) and an LL.M. degree in Human Rights from Central European University (2021).  She started her career as an Assistant Attorney-at-Law and later joined Team 29, a Russian NGO, as a Human Rights Lawyer representing clients in the cases on digital rights and freedom of expression before domestic courts and in the European Court of Human Rights. In the course of her graduate studies, Arina supported the teams of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and French Centre de la Protection Internationale. Prior to joining the Institute as an Academic Engagement Assistant, she spent 6 months as an intern at the Office of the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, assisting senior officers of the External Co-operation Section in their partnership-building and programmatic work.

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Chiara Perrone comes from Lecce, Italy. She joined the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo in May 2022 and is currently the Academic Unit Assistant for the Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law. She graduated with honors with a Master in Human Rights from the University of Vienna in 2021.

Chiara has worked in Chios, Greece, as a legal assistant for migrants and refugees. There, she performed research and advocacy with regards to structural problems in the asylum procedure and connected issues such as access to social rights, and she contributed to the publications of the NGO Equal Rights Beyond Borders. She was an intern at the UNHCR Liaison Office with the OSCE in Vienna, where she reported on OSCE region developments in fighting trafficking, advancing the integration of refugees, IDPs and returnees, and on efforts to end statelessness.