Liz Griffin is an honorary academic and leadership coach, mentor and trainer. Liz empowers people to make bigger strategic social justice impacts, nurture leadership ability, presence and skills and build healthier organisations and sustainable ways of working. She is a fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex where she previously lectured in International Human Rights Law.
Liz has over 20 years of leadership experience working with the UN, human rights NGOs and universities, rising to the level of Professor of International Human Rights Law. She has lectured and directed large programs and human rights centres at the University of Oxford (UK), the UN-mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica), and Jindal Global University (India). Liz also established and managed Amnesty International’s first ever field office and she has served as an expert consultant and coach to NGOs and IGOs, including the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Liz is a recognised expert in the theory and practice of human rights, with a specialisation in the practical aspects of human rights work.
Liz is an Extraordinary Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (South Africa), a Partner of the Human Rights Resilience Project and she also serves on the Advisory Board of the NGO, Universal Rights Group.
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