I am an educator and policy advocate working where universities, the United Nations, and the Council of Europe meet — convinced that education is the most durable form of human-rights work, and that institutions are only as strong as the people they prepare to lead them. Universities, NGOs, and international organisations engage me for teaching, advisory, and analytical work in this space.
As a permanent lecturer at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin and Potsdam, I teach and supervise theses across International Law, Digital Literacy, Business & Human Rights, and International Relations. Earlier in my UE career I established the Peer Leadership Programme at the Innovation Hub Potsdam, before transitioning into a permanent teaching role. The programme has since scaled across UE's German campuses and continues to operate today. I serve on the University Senate, Faculty Council, and Quality Advisory Board, where I help shape curriculum, governance, and quality assurance.
During my tenure at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, I worked at the UPR Branch — the Secretariat of the Universal Periodic Review, the Human Rights Council mechanism through which the United Nations reviews the human rights record of all 193 Member States. My work centred on country-level human rights analysis: examining a State's compliance with its international obligations, mapping treaty-body and Special Procedure findings against the conventions it has ratified — and the ones it has not — and contributing to the Compilations of UN information OHCHR publishes for each review. The same analysis fed into recommendations sent from the High Commissioner to States on legislative reform, institutional safeguards, and the ratification of outstanding human rights treaties.
Beyond the classroom, I work as an active advocate within the international human rights system — intervening from the floor at the UN Social Forum in Geneva and contributing as an expert at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on digital citizenship and human rights in the digital age. The position is the same in every room: human rights are not abstract instruments but daily commitments, and education is the ground where those commitments take root.
