Dr. SIMONA PINTON. Electoral Reform International Services (ERIS) Berkeley, CA Master of Laws LL.M May, 2004 Ferrara Law School

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1 Dr. SIMONA PINTON EDUCATION Electoral Reform International Services (ERIS) London, UK Long Term Observer Training January, 2014 ISPI ECES Milano, Italy Advanced Diploma on Effective Electoral Assistance November, 2013 University of Padua, School of Law Doctorate in International Law April, 2005 Boalt Hall School of Law Berkeley, CA Master of Laws LL.M May, 2004 Ferrara Law School Ferrara, Italy JD magna cum laude October 1997 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES European Union - EU EOM Tanzania Tanzania Africa Electoral Observer October 2015 TRF Cadre of Technical Advisers, The Rotary Foundation Democracy Building and Peace & Conflict Prevention/Resolution Technical Adviser Evanston, IL Seattle, WA July present Ca Foscari University, University of Washington Senior Research Fellow June 2014 present Perform research on a variety of international law subjects, also environmental law, related to the different regimes of responsibility for international crimes; work on a forthcoming monographic work on the role of redress after genocide and other crimes from an international law perspective; teach classes on international law, the international and regional protection of human rights; attend meetings with research groups on environmental law, global health law, on the value of cultural heritage for society. Help for Life Foundation Onlus Seattle WA Program Development and Project Manager Sep present Manage microfinance and global health projects development from initiation to closure in Ethiopia and Kenya; work with project sponsor and stakeholder to complete project; charter outlining scope, goals, required sources, budget and timing; track and report on project milestones and provide status report to sponsor; lead and motivate project team members on a proactive basis; determine how results are measured and complete a post-project evaluation to establish how well results were achieved; safely crash unsuccessful and/or reprioritize projects; ensure all projects documents are securely archived. TRF Cadre of Technical Advisers, The Rotary Foundation Evanston, IL Seattle, WA Democracy Building and Peace & Conflict Prevention/Resolution Technical Adviser Mar present Technical reviewer of democracy building/post-conflict projects also travelling to sites to evaluate the projects' effectiveness and compliance with TRF's mission and policies. University of Washington School of Law Seattle, WA

2 Visiting Researcher Jan Feb Performed research on the international protection of human rights and State responsibility; delivered formal lectures to the host institution; engaged in formal or informal discussions with graduate or postgraduate research students on international criminal justice issues; undertake collaborative research with faculty on the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; contributed to the university's teaching by presenting lectures on the case law on the European Court on Human Rights. University of Padua, Law School Research Fellow June 2006 Dec Conducted significant legal research on international law matters and presented it to constituencies and advisory bodies; taught seminars on international law and European Union law; joint with original key national and international research groups; planned and coordinated meetings, seminars and conferences with other academic and non-academic partners; edited books and legal journals articles. Magnificat Institute Jerusalem, Israel Pedrollo Music Conservatory Vicenza, Italy Consultant for legal affairs and international projects Feb Dec Successfully designed and enforced peace-building and educational projects for more than 100 Israeli and Palestinians students; designed and developed efficient learning programs; obtained repeatedly governmental funding; built and leveraged relationships with key external partners (governmental and nongovernmental); contributed to programs and grants formulation and budgeting; administered funding. Venice Foundation on Peace Research Program officer Jan Dec Oversaw and managed the Foundation s national and international partnerships; drafted memoranda, sections of studies, background papers; coordinated research groups meetings and presented findings to partners, also via web; represented the Foundation at public and private events. UN Tribunal for the Genocide in Rwanda Arusha, Africa Legal Assistant to the Head of Prosecutor May Oct Assisted the Senior Attorney in handling cases at trial level (Seromba case, Butare Case); prepared and drafted decisive pre-trail legal briefs, memorials and other legal instruments; researched on questions of substantive international and national criminal law, evidence; attended trials' hearings. Padua Law School Department of Legal Science Wake Forest University School of Law Winston Salem, NC Assistant Director Wake Forest Summer Program Summers Overall coordination of the Italian Comparative Summer Program between the Italian and American Universities; designed training programs incorporating media and technology; prepared legal materials for students; arranged meetings with Italian judges, advocates and notaries, also via web; developed institutional relations with academic and cultural bodies. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Vienna, Austria Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome, Italy Short-term Elections Observer Jun Dec (Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia-Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania elections) Discussed implementation and maintenance of overall OSCE compliance programs; assessed the compliance of relevant electoral activities to international rules; observed and reported on the election s days; reported on irregular operations. Delegation of the European Commission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Vienna, Austria Legal Assistant to the Head of the Delegation Jan. Nov Assisted Head of the Delegation in daily meetings; examined critically issues on regional conflicts, human rights, economy, and military security; drafted classified weekly reports to EU Commission s services in Brussels; presented Delegation s position papers. 2

3 Grimaldi & Clifford Chance Law Firm Cacco Law Firm Practicing Attorney Jan Dec Researched and wrote memos on criminal law and procedure; family law; civil law; assisted attorneys in negotiating agreements and drafting contracts; met with and interviewed clients; attended court proceedings; enriched the team with unconventional insights. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Ca Foscari Senior Lecturer Jan Dec Courses: Public international law, International criminal law, Human rights and social justice, International protection of cultural heritage Wake Forest University School of Law Winston-Salem, NC Visiting Professor Jan. March 2010 Course: International criminal law Venice International University Lecturer Apr May 2011 Course: International environmental agreements and climate change Prof. Maria Laura Picchio Forlati University of Padua Faculty of Law Jan Dec Teaching Assistant Courses: Public International Law, Conflict of laws, European Union law International and Area Studies Berkeley, CA Reader on Human Rights Jan. - May 2004 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Primary interests:, International Law, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Human Rights Law, Social and Restorative Justice, International Criminal Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property and Human Rights, European Union Law, International Environmental Law and Policy, Additional interests: International Private Law. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books Redress in Rwanda Twenty-one Years after the 1994 Genocide. An International- Law Perspective (forthoming, winter 2015) La tortura nel nuovo millennio. La reazione del diritto (Torture in the new millennium. The reaction of law), (with L. ZAGATO), Cedam: Padua, Articles The Role of Restorative Justice in International Law, in Studi in onore di Laura Picchio Forlati - Essays in Honour of Laura Picchio Forlati, Etudes en l honneur de Laura Picchio Forlati, Festschrift Laura Picchio Forlati, a cura di Bernardo Cortese, Giappichelli, 2014, pp The Armenian Massacres in International Law, in ML. Picchio Forlati (ed.), Rassicurazione e Memoria. Per dare un futuro alla pace, Padua: Cedam, 2012:

4 The problem of the retroactive application of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 2011, La riparazione alle vittime di tortura (The reparation to victims of torture), in L. ZAGATO, S. PINTON, eds., La tortura nel nuovo millennio. La reazione del diritto (Torture in the new millennium. The reaction of law), Padua: Cedam, 2010: Sostegno alle vittime di crimini di diritto internazionale come elemento necessario della lotta alla criminalità, in M.L. Picchio Forlati (a cura di), Rapporto finale sul Progetto International Training in Law and Justice IntelJust, 2009, pp La tutela della identità culturale a fronte dei cambiamenti climatici nel diritto internazionale (The protection of cultural identity in the face of climate change in international law), in L. ZAGATO L., ed., with S. PINTON, Le identità culturali nei nuovi strumenti Unesco: un approccio nuovo alla costruzione della pace? (The cultural identities in new UNESCO instruments: a new approach in building peace?), Padua: Cedam, 2008: National through to Local Climate Policy in Italy, co-authored with Emanuele Massetti and Davide Zanon, in 4 Environmental Science (2007): La disciplina italiana sulla radiotelevisione alla luce delle garanzie internazionali sulla libertà di espressione (The Italian regime of radio-television in the light of the international guarantees on freedom of expression), in L. CARLASSARE, ed., Il pluralismo radiotelevisivo tra pubblico e privato (The radiotelevision pluralism among public and private spheres, Padua: Cedam, 2007: Il ritorno di persone sradicate nel diritto internazionale: diritto di o diritto al ritorno? (The right to return of displaced persons in international law: right to or right at return?), in L. ZAGATO, ed., Verso una disciplina europea comune del diritto d asilo (Towards an European common regime of the right to asylum), Padua: Cedam, 2006: Striving for Peace after Massive Violence: Dilemmas in Dealing with Human Rights Atrocities. A Holistic Approach to Justice, in E. M. EPSTEIN, ed., Sources of Inter and Intra State Conflict and Possibilities for Resolution in this Decade, Evanston: Rotary Publications, 2006: La rilevanza della memoria nella tutela internazionale dei diritti umani (The relevance of memory in the international protection of human rights), in S. RIONDATO, ed., Discriminazione razziale, xenofobia, odio religioso. Diritti fondamentali e tutela penale (Racial discrimination, xenophobia and religious hate. Fundamental rights and criminal protection), Padua: Cedam, 2006: Edited (in cooperation with) Le minoranze etnico linguistiche in Europa tra Stato nazionale e cittadinanza democratica (The etnolinguistic minorities in Europe between national state and democratic citizenship), M. CERMEL, (ed.), with S. PINTON, Padua: Cedam, Le identità culturali nei nuovi strumenti Unesco: un approccio nuovo alla costruzione della pace? (The cultural identities in new UNESCO instruments: a new approach in building peace?), L. ZAGATO L., (ed.), with S. PINTON, Padua: Cedam,

5 Controllo degli armamenti e lotta al terrorismo tra Nato, Unione Europea e Nazioni Unite (Control of armaments and fight against terrorism between Nato, European Union and United Nations), M.L. PICCHIO FORLATI (ed.), with S. PINTON, Padua: Cedam, Online Publications Cronologia dei fatti delle organizzazioni internazionali (agosto 2005 agosto 2007), disponibile on line all indirizzo Cronologia dei fatti del Consiglio d Europa (agosto 2005 agosto 2007), disponibile on line all indirizzo PH.D dissertation deposited at Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze: La riparazione alle vittime di violazioni di massa dei diritti umani secondo il diritto internazionale: dottorato di ricerca in diritto internazionale Alberico Gentili (evoluzione storica e teoria del diritto internazionale), ciclo 15. Coordinatore: Maria Laura Picchio Forlati; supervisore: Maria Laura Picchio Forlati, Padova, Collocazione: TDR CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS Dal riconoscimento del diritto all alimentazione alla sua attuazione concreta: quadro di riferimento internazionale e prospettive europee. Alcune Riflessioni, 11 giugno 2015 Workshop Il ruolo dei diritti economici e sociali nell attività di cooperazione allo sviluppo della UE, Ca Foscari University, Venezia Tangible and Intangible Heritage in Cultural Venice, 15 May 2015 International Conference on Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Values University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Rimedi contro il genocidio e vittime, February 2014 International Conference on Il genocidio: declinazioni e risposte di inizio secolo, Università Ca Foscari, Venice, Health and Human Rights in International Law, September 2012 University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, USA The European Court of Human Rights and its Case-Law on art.3 of the ECHR, March 2012 University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle Roads to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, February 2012 World Issues Forum, Western Washington University, WA, USA The European Court of Human Rights and its Case-Law on art.3 of the ECHR, 2011 Health and Human Rights in International Law, 2011 University of Washington, School of Law, USA The Armenian Genocide in the Practice of International Law, December 2010 International Conference on Reassurance and Memory: Give a Future to Peace, The Importance of Getting Alumni Together, 2010 International Convention of The Rotary International, Montreal, Canada 5

6 The Contribution of the Armenian Question to the Development of International Criminal Justice, 2009 (in Italian) International Conference, Department of History, Cà Foscari University, The Reparation to Victims of Torture in International Law, 2009 Paper presented at the International Day Against Torture, Annual Workshop, Ca Foscari University Amnesty International, Support to Victms of Human Trafficking and Rehabilitation as Necessary Steps to Fight against Organized Crime, 2008 Paper presented at the Iternational Conference Dreptul şi procedura penală entre recunoaştere reciprocǎ şi justişia restaurativǎ, Arad, Romania, EU Project: Criminal Justice Training in EU Legal Instruments and Policies Studies and Exchange of Best practices The Obligation to Memory in the Framework of Restitutive Justice, 2008 National Conference of Instructors of International Humanitarial Law, Italian Red Cross, Senigallia, Italy The Contribution of International Criminal Justice to Fight against Torture, 2008 Third Workshop, International Day Against Torture, Ca Foscari University, Climate Change and Cultural Identities, 2007 Workshop on Cultural Identities in New Unesco Instruments, Ca Foscari University,. The Control over Etno-linguistic Minorities in Europe through the Practice of International Bodies, 2007 International Conference on Ethnic-Linguistic Minorities in Europe between National State and Democratic Citizenship, Ca Foscari University, Venice Foundation on Peace Research, Peace Building s Perspectives in Post-Conflict Societies, 2007 Rotary World Peace Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA The Case Law of Mixed Tribunals on Torture: Recent Deveopments, 2007 Second Workshop Combatants in Asymmetric Conflicts: Freedom of Torture?, Department of Legal Studies, Interdipartimental Center for Research on Human Rights, Ca Foscari University, The access of NGO to Procedures before International Bodies, 2006 Workshop on Governance and Human Rights: Which Role for O(I)NG?, Department of Legal Studies, Interdipartimental Center for Research on Human Rights, Executions and Large Scale Massacres in Relation to the Asymmetric War, 2006 Workshop on Combatants of Asymmetric Conflicts, Department of Legal Studies, Interdipartimental Center for Research on Human Rights, ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Home of the Righteous, Padua Municipality, Italy Vice-Secretary, Venice Foundation for Research on Peace, Sub-Committee on Alumni, Rotary Foundation, Evanston, MI Rotary Club Padua Euganea, Italy present ANPHA (Association of disabled swimmers), present AGESCI,, BOARD MEMBER 6

7 ANPHA Uplift International, Seattle UNA Greater Seattle Chapter, Seattle Help for Life Foundation, Padua present present present present PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Society of International Law Rotary International Italian Society of International Law present present present FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2005 Second Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Award Service for people 2003 Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Award Service for people Rotary Peace Fellowship Post-degree Fellowship, University of Ferrara 1997 Award, Best dissertation on Human Rights, Bologna Municipality, Italy Erasmus/Socrates Program, University of Sussex, Brighton LANGUAGES Italian: mother tongue English: fluent French: good Spanish: good REFERENCES Bernardo Cortese Alan Palmiter Associate Professor of European Union Law Professor of Law Department of International and EU Law Wake Forest School of Law Via Anghinoni Wake Forest Road I Padova Winston Salem, NC Phone: Phone: Fax: alan.palmiter@wfu.edu bernardo.cortese@unipd.it Maria Laura Picchio Forlati Professor of Law San Polo 1949 I-30125, Venice Phone: Fax: mlpicchioforlati@gmail.com 7

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E u r o p e a n C V F o r m a t Personal Information Name Address Telephone E-mail Nationality Place and Date of Birth Via Casilina 3T, 00182 - Rome +39 347 1133075 keli@iol.it Italian Rome, 9 May 1969