Dr. Simona Pinton, Ph.D., is a senior researcher and lecturer in international law, international criminal law, and international and European law on human rights and cultural heritage.
In the past decade, she has taught at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she is still an associate at the Center Study on Human Rights. Simona also serves as a researcher at the Venice Foundation for Research on Peace, studying issues dealing with redress to victims of genocide and other gross human rights violations in the framework of international law. At the same Foundation, Simona is part of the research group on the safeguarding of heritage and cultural identity/diversity in armed conflicts, also encouraging a bottoms-up implementation of the CoE Faro Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society via the cooperation with local heritage communities and authorities.
Simona also has taught at the University of Washington School of Law and the School of Law at Wake Forest University, and she served on the prosecutorial team for the UN Tribunal for the Genocide in Rwanda, located in Arusha, Tanzania.
Since 2000, Simona has been a consultant for national and international NGOs by designing, monitoring, and evaluating the implementation of projects in the Middle East and Eastern Africa, dealing with the fight against illicit trafficking while fostering education, safeguarding of cultural heritage, children and women’s rights, health, and community development.
Currently, Simona is the Regional Coordinator for Europe, Mena, and North Asia of the Cadre of Technical Advisers at Rotary International, leading the global team of advisers on peace-building and conflict prevention.
She is a member of Faro Venezia; of the working group on cultural heritage of the Italian Society of International Law; and of several NGO Boards dealing with the protection of human rights, including Rotary International, Anpha, Help for Life Foundation, and Uplift International.
