The Centre for Fundamental Rights invites you to join the fourth event in our series on human rights career paths. This event will focus on career opportunities within international organisations in the field of human rights. We are delighted to host a conversation with Bernhard Knoll-Tudor, Director of Executive Education and Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School, who brings extensive experience at international organisations, including the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) and Martin Waehlisch, Team Leader of the Innovation Cell in the Policy and Mediation Division of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA). The discussion will be moderated by Grażyna Baranowska, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights and member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances
This event is open to the Hertie School community. Prior registration required.
Speakers:
Dr. Grażyna Baranowska is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin. She has also worked as a Policy Advisor on enforced disappearances in the German Institute for Human Rights and supported drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances and migration of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Since August 2022, she is a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. She is the Principal Investigator of MIRO, a project funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, which seeks to identify and interpret international legal obligations regarding ‘missing migrants’ and accordingly critique and shape the practices of the EU, its Member States, and pertinent international organisations.
Bernhard Knoll-Tudor is Director of Executive Education and Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School. As Director of Executive Education, Bernhard develops strategic partnerships and establishes high-level working contacts with INGOs, government bodies, IOs, foundations and think tanks globally. As Adjunct Faculty, he teaches public international law as well as skills courses. Before joining the Hertie School, Bernhard served as director of the Global Policy Academy at Central European University, Budapest. He worked for ten years for the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) and held positions at the European Union Monitoring Mission (Sarajevo), the United Nations Administration Mission in Kosovo (Prishtina), the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Vienna) as well as with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR, Warsaw).
Dr. Martin Waehlisch leads the Innovation Cell in the Policy and Mediation Division of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA), an interdisciplinary team dedicated to exploring, piloting, and scaling new technologies, tools, and practices in conflict prevention, mediation and peacebuilding. He holds a PhD in International Law and recently published the edited volume “Rethinking Peace Mediation: Challenges of Contemporary Peacemaking Practice” (Bristol University Press 2021).