Stephanie
T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt
Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt is an expert in human rights and rule
of law and specializes in China and sub-Saharan Africa. Currently an
international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, she is
researching the human rights implications of China’s deepening
engagement with the African continent. She is on sabbatical from the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
in Geneva, where she is responsible for human rights and technical
cooperation on administration of justice with the government of the
People’s Republic of China.
Previously, Ms. Kleine-Ahlbrandt investigated human rights
violations and genocide for the United Nations in Rwanda (1994–95) and
monitored and reported on the human rights situation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(1996). She has also worked with the special adviser on national human
rights institutions to the UN high commissioner for human rights,
several UN special rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights, and
the legal affairs directorate of the Council of Europe. Ms.
Kleine-Ahlbrandt has lectured and published widely on international
human rights mechanisms, education, women’s issues, and human
rights–based approaches to development and complex humanitarian
emergencies. She received a master’s degree from the Graduate Institute
of International Studies at the University of Geneva, a certificate of
political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université
Robert Schuman, in Strasbourg, and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana
University.