Francesca Gortan is a Trainee Lawyer in Italy. Francesca holds a Master Degree in Law from the University of Trento and an LL.M. in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Geneva Academy.

During her LL.M, Francesca was selected with two other colleagues to represent the Geneva Academy  at the 38th edition of the Jean Pictet Competition (finalist). From February 2022 to June 2022, Francesca joined the team of Professor Gloria Gaggioli and assisted with a research on non-state armed groups labelled as terrorist in the Sahel Region, Libya,  Yemen and Afghanistan.

Based on the research conducted during those months, she wrote her LL.M Paper on “Classifying coalitions of non-state armed groups: bilateral or cumulative approach?”.