Domenico Zipoli
Project Coordinator and Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Domenico Zipoli is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Coordinator at the Geneva Human Rights Platform. His research focuses on the question of connectivity among international human rights mechanisms and on national strategies for monitoring, implementation, and follow-up of international human rights obligations and recommendations. He is currently leading a research initiative aimed at advancing digital solutions to improve the efficiency of human rights and SDG monitoring and implementation, leveraging digital human rights tracking tools, databases and artificial intelligence.
Dr Zipoli is also Project Coordinator at the Geneva Human Rights Platform (GHRP), providing expert input to different Geneva-based international organizations and permanent missions as well as coordinating the organization and development of GHRP projects, events, workshops and training courses.
Prior to starting at the Geneva Academy, Dr. Zipoli worked as PhD Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis in 2021 (‘The Power of Engagement: Assessing the Effectiveness of Cooperation between United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and National Human Rights Institutions’). He previously worked as Research Assistant for the Academic Platform on Treaty Body Review 2020, as Research Trainee at the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency, and as a research assistant at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
Throughout his research, he also carried out visiting stays at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Australian Institute for Human Rights (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales) as well as internships at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division) and two National Human Rights Institutions (the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia and the Defensoria del Pueblo of Ecuador).
Dr Zipoli holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oslo, a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Human Rights Law from Lund University and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Exeter.
Resources
Bridging Human Rights and Data Science at the 2025 Latsis Symposium
Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Human Rights Monitoring: Key Takeaways from the AI for Good Workshop
New Academy Briefing Calls for Stronger Engagement of Local and Regional Governments in Human Rights and SDG Monitoring
Briefing N° 25: Localizing Multilateralism
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Domenico Zipoli, Ludovica Chiussi Curzi, Kamelia Kemileva
AI and Human Rights in the Intelligent Age: GHRP in Davos
GHRP Annual Conference 2024 Strengthens Connectivity in a Pressured Human Rights System
Expert Roundtable on Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Human Rights Monitoring
Briefing N° 23: The Human Rights Data Revolution
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Domenico Zipoli
International Treaty-Based Reporting Practices Review Report
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Felix Kirchmeier, Claire Callejon, Domenico Zipoli
The Emergence of Digital Human Rights Tracking Tools and Databases
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Domenico Zipoli
Implementing the Treaty Body Review 2020 – Where do we stand
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Felix Kirchmeier, Domenico Zipoli
Briefing No°18: National Human Rights Strategies: The Role of National Human Rights Systems in the Implementation of International Human Rights Standards
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; The International Land Coalition
Domenico Zipoli