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Christiana Galvão Ferreira de Freitas
Human rights · Disaster risk management · Public policy
Lawyer and sociologist working on human rights, disaster risk management and public policy.
She was Director for the Promotion of Human Rights at the Special Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of Brazil (2015) and Human Rights Manager at the Renova Foundation (2017 to 2025), in the reparation of the Rio Doce basin. She served as an international consultant for the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), for Brazil’s Ministry of Women, Racial Equality, Youth and Human Rights, and for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on human rights.
She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Brasília, with a dissertation on disaster risk management and disaster law, including a doctoral research period at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Education
- PhD in Law, University of Brasília (2014), with a research period at the University of Bremen. Read the dissertation (in Portuguese)
- Master in International Humanitarian Action (NOHA), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Master in Political Science, University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Career
- Director for the Promotion of Human Rights, SEDH/PR (2015)
- Human Rights Manager, Renova Foundation (2017 to 2025)
- International consultant, OEI
- International consultant, UNDP
