Centre on Human Rights in Conflict

Staff

Centre Staff

• Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram , Director
• Dr. Olga Martin-Ortega , Senior Research Fellow
• Johanna Herman , Research Fellow
• Victoria Perry, Research Administrator
• Nana Agyemang, Student volunteer

Director: Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair in Human Rights.

Chandra Lekha Sriram was appointed Professor of Human Rights in October 2005. During the fall term, 2005, she was a visiting associate professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law. From 2003-05 she was lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. Prior to that she was Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy (IPA) in New York, directing IPA's conflict prevention project, From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict. Her areas of teaching expertise include war and human rights public international law, international criminal law, human rights, and conflict prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding.

Professor Sriram received her PhD in Politics from Princeton University in 2000, her JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1994, and her MA in International Relations and BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1991. (See staff profile for more information)

 

Senior Research Fellow: Dr. Olga Martin-Ortega.

Olga Martin-Ortega joined the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict in November 2006. She holds a Law degree from the University of Sevilla (Spain). Olga received her PhD in International Human Rights Law at the University of Jaen (Spain) in 2006. Before joining the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict she was a lecturer in European Law at Napier University, Edinburgh, and Public International Law and Human Rights in Jaen. She conducts research in the areas of business and human rights, post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice. Her latest research has focused on the impact of the activities and working methods of multinational enterprises in conflict zones, the rebuilding of rule of law and transitional justice in Liberia and the work of the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She also teaches at the LLM Human Rights Programme of the University of East London on Business and Human Rights and at the Open University of Catalonia on the LLM Human Rights and Democracy on Post-Conflict Reconstruction.

For her publications click here.

 

 

Research Fellow: Johanna Herman.

Ms. Herman received her MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International And Public Affairs in 2006, with a concentration in human rights. She holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She has worked in various capacities for UN-HABITAT and the United Nations Development Programme in Japan, Afghanistan and New York.She also has work experience with UNICEF UK, Human Rights First and the International Center for Transitional Justice.

Student Volunteer: Nana Agyemang.

Mr Agyemang is currently pursuing LLM in International Human Rights. He holds a BA in Law and Sociology. He has worked in various capacities including volunteer work for the International Labour Organisation (ILO).  

 

 

Past CHRC staff members

Visiting Researcher: ( November 2009-December 2009): Elena Lopez-Almansa Beaus.

Leverhulme Visiting Fellow (January 2008-January 2009): Dr. Carmen Draghici.

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