Dr. Christina Binder, E.MA, holds the Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich since April 2017. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre “Human Rights”. She is member of the ILA Committees on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and on Human Rights in Times of Emergency. Christina is member of the Executive Board and former Vice-President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), was member of the Executive Board of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC) (2016-2019) and is member of the Council of the Global Campus for Human Rights and Democratization since 2019. Her research focuses on a number of public international law issues, including human rights, the law of treaties, international investment law as well as international environmental law. She is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte and of the Hungarian Yearbook of International and European Law and has widely published, in edited volumes and in peer-reviewed journals. Christina also served as legal and electoral expert for EU and OSCE/ODIHR election observation and assessment missions in several countries. She likewise acts as electoral expert for the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.