Dr. Valentina Carraro is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) and the Institute of Political Science, and Deputy Coordinator of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme. Her research interests include the governance of human rights- and violence-related challenges, global and regional human rights governance, state compliance with international law, and the use of expertise in public bodies. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Maastricht University (2017).

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Dr. Valentina Carraro is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) and the Institute of Political Science, and Deputy Coordinator of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme.

Her research interests include the governance of human rights- and violence-related challenges, global and regional human rights governance, state compliance with international law, and the use of expertise in public bodies. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Maastricht University (2017).

Before joining Leiden University in February 2021, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna and at Maastricht University, and she held teaching positions at the University of Groningen and VU Amsterdam. She has also been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Carraro has recently concluded a two-year research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) by means of a Rubicon grant (2018-2020). The project was titled: “The More the Better? The Complementarity of Human Rights Reviewing Mechanisms in the United Nations” and explored the complementarity of United Nations governance mechanisms in the fight against torture.

PhD supervision

Valentina Carraro is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
•    Human rights
•    International organisations 
•    New actors in global governance

Publications