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Gloria Gaggioli is an Associate and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva, Department of Public International Law and International Organization and the Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights since August 2020. She is also member of the board of Geneva Call since August 2019.

She is the Principal Investigator leading the research project ‘Preventing and Combating Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Towards a Legal-Empirical Approach’. 

She holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva (summa cum laude, Pedone 2013), an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (summa cum laude and Henry Dunant certificate of merit ex aequo) as well as a Masters and Bachelors in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development. 

Prior to starting the project, Gloria Gaggioli has researched and/or taught in several Universities in Denmark (University of Copenhagen), Sweden (Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law), France (Catholic University of Lille, University of Aix-Marseille), Switzerland (University of Neuchâtel) and conducted research as a ‘Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence’ at the US Naval War College, Stockton Center for the Studies of International Law. She also served as Legal Adviser in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for four years and is the author of the ICRC report ‘The Use of Force in Armed Conflicts: Interplay between the Conduct of Hostilities and Law Enforcement Paradigms’. 

Gloria Gaggioli has published extensively in various fields of public international law and participates regularly in international conferences, roundtables and expert meetings. Her work focuses notably on issues related to the interplay between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the right to life and the use of force, including the conduct of hostilities, law enforcement and self-defence. In the framework of the counterterrorism project, she focuses on conflict classification in the fight against terror and membership into armed groups labelled as terrorist (see Track 2).