Paola Forgione
Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Paola Forgione has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for over a decade. She was protection delegate in Gaza, El Salvador, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the Ivory Coast. During her missions, she monitored the treatment of people in detention, documented attacks against healthcare workers and supported families of missing people in the search of their loved ones.
She is currently Legal Adviser at the ICRC in Geneva, where she focuses on accountability for war crimes and on transitional justice. She advices states on domestic norms that they should adopt to translate international humanitarian law obligations into practice, and she delivers trainings on war crimes to judges, prosecutors and investigators of domestic and international accountability mechanisms.
She has been admitted to the Bar in Milan, and she holds a PhD in International Justice and Human Rights from the University of Pavia in Italy. She held visiting positions at the Australian National University and at King’s College London.