Expertise and consultancies

In a Nutshell

I have served as an expert for various bodies, including from the United Nations, and worked as a Policy Advisor for the German Institute for Human Rights. Currently, I am a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Moreover, I have advised litigators to UN bodies and the European Court of Human Rights and made submissions (third party interventions and Rule 9 submissions) to the European Court of Human Rights in migration cases.

In More Detail

Since 1 August 2022, I am a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances . Within the mandate, I assist families globally in determining the fate or whereabouts of their family members who are reportedly disappeared. Furthermore, I participate in drafting and adopting guidelines and studies, as well as support states in adopting laws and policies that prevent enforced disappearances. I also conduct country visits.

Until my nomination to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, I was involved in the process of drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances in the context of migration of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. This General Comment is to provide authoritative guidance on legal obligations regarding enforced disappearances in the context of migration.

As a Policy Advisor on enforced disappearances in the German Institute for Human Rights , I prepared a report on The Relevance of the ICPPED for Disappeared Migrants and Refugees . Subsequently, I was invited to the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights to present the report at the treaty body platform meeting for members of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, UN Committee on Migrant Workers, and UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.

In March 2025 I co-authored a third party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of A.A.N. and Others v. Greece , relating to the Courts evidentiary framework regarding pushbacks.

Since 2021, I am involved in the monitoring of the implementation of the judgment M.K. and others vs Poland made by the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerns the non-acceptance of asylum claims at the Polish-Belarusian border in 2016 and 2017. The submission highlights a significant deterioration of the situation since the delivery of the judgment, along with regressive legal developments contrary to the general measures required by M.K. and others vs Poland , especially since August 2021. For more, see our submissions from January 2022 , April 2022 and January 2023 .