Juana Kweitel

Juana is the Executive Director of Conectas Human Rights, whose mission is to promote the realisation of human rights and consolidation of the Rule of Law in the Global South – Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Juana previously worked in Argentina as an institutional coordinator of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and as coordinator of their Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program.

Juana serves on the Board of Trustees of the Brazil Human Rights Fund (2014), the Advisory Board of Open Global Rights (2013) and is a member of the Assembly of Partners of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS, Argentina) and of the Developments in the Field Panel of the Business and Human Rights Journal, published by the Cambridge University Press.

She has a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex and in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, where her thesis topic was “Accountability of Latin American Human Rights Organizations”.

She also holds a postgraduate degree in Human Rights and Democratic Transition from the University of Chile, and she graduated as a lawyer with honours from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).