Christelle Genoud, PhD

Experience

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  Geneva Call

  May 2010 - Oct 2010

  Research Assistant

  Research on Pakistani Taliban and Baluchistan Liberation Front

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  Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2010

  Liaison Agent, XIIIème Sommet de la Francophonie
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  Institut français

  Jan 2011 - Mar 2011

  Project Assistant

  Coordination of two cultural events

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  Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

  May 2011 - Sept 2011

  F2F employee

  Fundraising and advocacy

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  United Nations, OCHA

  Oct 2011 - Dec 2011

  Intern
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  Embassy of Switzerland in The United States of America

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  Academic Associate
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  World Council of Churches

  Oct 2012 - Oct 2014

  • Assistant to the Special Advisor on International Partnerships

    Feb 2013 - Oct 2014

  • Human Rights Observer

    Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
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  PROAH - Peace Watch Switzerland - Friendship Office of the Americas

  Nov 2014 - Apr 2015

  Human Rights Observer
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  Middle East Eye

  Apr 2015 - Aug 2015

  News Editor

  News Editor at newly-launched news website looking to transform how the world sees the Middle East

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  UNIL - Université de Lausanne

  Aug 2015 - Feb 2020

  PhD Researcher

  PhD thesis on the instrumentalization of human rights by financial actors. Defended in March 2020. "Transnational private regulations of financialized land grabbing : Can human rights regulated finance? "keywords: human right to land, large-scale land investments/land grabbing, finance and human rights, Transnational Private Governance, Colombia, palm oil, financialization of land, food securityFrom August 2015 until January 2018 (2.5 years) : teaching assistant for courses on International Relations, International Political Economy, and Financialization Show less

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  University of Waterloo

  Dec 2016 - Jun 2017

  Visiting Scholar

  Working on the financialization of the agricultural sector and large-scale land investments in flex crops

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  Universidad de Los Andes

  Jun 2017 - Sept 2017

  Visiting Scholar

  Field research on large-scale land investments for the production of palm oil and the RSPO human rights framework

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  United Nations

  Feb 2018 - Apr 2019

  Associate Expert in Human Rights - OHCHR

  Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

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  Embassy of Switzerland in the People's Republic of China

  Apr 2019 - Aug 2021

  Human Security Advisor, Second Secretary
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  King's College London

  Aug 2021 - May 2024

  Principal Investigator for a project on human rights diplomacy and Xinjiang funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO) Working with Prof. Eva Pils on the project "Academic Freedom, Globalized Scholarship and the Rise of authoritarian China" Research on the relationship between human rights and political economy in China

  • Principal Investigator

    Oct 2023 - May 2024

  • Research Associate

    Nov 2021 - Sept 2023

  • Visiting Research Fellow

    Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
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  OSCE Academy in Bishkek

  Aug 2023 - Oct 2023

  Senior Lecturer

  Contribute in launching the new Master on Human Rights and Sustainability at the OSCE Academy. First Master dedicated to human rights in Central Asia.

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  University of Lausanne - UNIL

  Aug 2023 - now

  Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche