I am an Associate Professor of Human Rights at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and Vice-Dean (Impact) at UCL's Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. I have been a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), at Sciences-Po, and a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. I am currently convening the Latin America course for the International Academy at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO).Previously, I held academic positions at the Human Rights Consortium (University of London), Oxford Brookes University, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Warwick University, and various Oxford colleges.I have worked with a range of human rights organizations and as a consultant for the Association for the Prevention of Torture; the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); and the European Parliament. I am currently a member of the Non-Executive Board of Directors at ABColombia, an advocacy project of a group of five leading UK and Irish organisations with programmes in Colombia.Prior to entering academia, I worked at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva.