Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni is the Executive Director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine that documents atrocities and helps build cases for international mechanisms. She is also the Tom and Andi Bernstein Visiting Fellow for Human Rights at Yale Law School, Schell Center for Human Rights.
She is also an award-winning war reporter and the author of nine books as well as an academic specializing in human rights. Previously, she ran a similar initiative for the UN Democracy Fund in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. She is currently a Non Resident Fellow at Yale Law School Schell Center for Human Rights. In 2021-2022 she was Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos SNF Agora Institute, leading initiatives on transitional justice. From 2018 to 2022, she was a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, teaching human rights. She is also a Global Affairs columnist at Foreign Policy and The National in Dubai.
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