ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Expertise: Human Rights, International Law.

Locations: Global (based in Switzerland).

Kristina Touzenis is a lawyer and recognised leader in the business of international human rights standards and principles, particularly in complicated and volatile regions worldwide. Kristina has more than 20 years of experience in advocacy, human rights reporting, monitoring and evaluating as well as in policy making and negotiating at national, regional, and global level. Before launching her consulting business, helping companies and investors effectively operationalise ESG criteria and the Business and Human Rights agenda into their strategy, Kristina created the International Law Unit at the International Organisation for Migration – IOM, the UN Agency for Migration. She served as Head of the Unit from 2011 to 2020. Prior to her appointment at the IOM HQ, Kristina worked from 2006 to 2011 in the IOM Regional Office for the Mediterranean Region and from 2002 to 2006 on implementing children’s rights in the Mediterranean Region for an NGO. Throughout her career, she has taught post- and undergraduate courses in international law at several universities. Kristina holds an LLB and LLM from the University of Copenhagen. She is currently Head of the Geneva branch of Women in Sustainable Finance (WISF).