Roberta Ruggiero

Roberta Ruggiero

Dr. Roberta Ruggiero is Director of the Children’s Rights Academy and Academic Coordinator of the Children’s Rights European Academic Network (CREAN) at the Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights (CIDE) of the University of Geneva. Her publications and research in the interdisciplinary field of children’s rights studies focus on the implementation and monitoring of international public law on children’s rights, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child; independent institutions for the promotion and protection of children’s rights; legal and social indicators for evidence based child policy and the assessment of its impact; multilevel governance; knowledge brokering; and interdisciplinary continuing education in the field of children’s rights.
Dr. Ruggiero is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice (Springer) and a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Journal of Children’s Rights (Brill). She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of the International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE) and of the International Terre des hommes (Tdh) Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dr. Ruggiero is Co Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights (MCR) and of the Summer School “Children’s Rights at the Heart of Human Rights.” On 20 January 2024, Dr. Ruggiero received the Janusz Korczak UNESCO Medal from Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw, Poland, in recognition of her continued support for the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5, and 10, particularly in the promotion of human rights and children’s rights in higher education.
For an up-to-date list of publications, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-7354