Ioana Cismas is a researcher with the Project on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of
International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She is offering
legal
support to Jean Ziegler, member of the Advisory Committee of the UN
Human Rights Council.
Ioana has previously interned and worked in the research and policy
analysis units of NGOs and research centers - among which Geneva Call
and the Centre for International Governance - focusing on
humanitarian engagement of non-state actors and on corporate complicity
in international crimes. She has also been an adviser to the Romanian
Minister of European Integration.
As a doctoral candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute
of International and
Development Studies in Geneva, Ioana is exploring the rights and
obligations under international law of religious actors, state and
non-state. She aims to propose an accountability framework for
religious actors.
Ioana holds a master's degree in international affairs from the
Graduate Institute and a double bachelor's degree in political science
and sociology from the National School of Political Studies and Public
Administration in Bucharest.
