Biljana Braithwaite Western Balkans Programme Director Expand Western Balkans Programme Director Biljana leads the AIRE Centre’s Western Balkans Rule of Law Programme. She has over twenty years’ experience developing, funding and delivering more than fifty rule of law projects, ranging from strengthening national judiciaries and other forms of technical assistance, human rights training, legislative reform, and the fight against corruption, often in partnership with local civil society. A lawyer by training with degrees from Belgrade University and Lund University’s Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Biljana began her career at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and has been associated with the AIRE Centre since 1998. She founded and co-edits the professional legal bulletin, Human Rights in Europe, now over 150 editions. She has also co-edited a series of guides for judges, decision makers and practitioners in South East Europe on freedom of expression, international child protection, and European asylum law. She is a member of the boards of the AIRE Centre USA and International Bridges to Justice. She is a founding partner of Sustineri Partners, a consultancy working with companies and other organisations to put sustainability at the heart of their business.
Catharina Harby Senior Legal Consultant Western Balkans Programme Expand Senior Legal Consultant Western Balkans Programme Catharina is a Senior Legal Consultant with the AIRE Centre and works on a number of its key projects in particular with the Western Balkans programme. She has been associated with the AIRE Centre since 2000. By background Catharina is a Swedish lawyer who studied at Uppsala University, and she has lectured on the substantive and procedural aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights throughout Europe. Catharina is the co-editor of a number of publications, including the Legal Bulletin Human Rights in Europe containing articles and analyses on cases from the ECtHR and the CJEU. She has also co-edited and contributed to a large number of publications on topics such as the effective implementation of the ECHR, the right to a fair trial, the prohibition of ill-treatment and children’s rights. She has worked extensively on the Annual Rule of Law Conference. Between 2005 and 2014 Catharina was a Visiting Lecturer at the International Relations Programme at Regent’s University, London, and she works with NGOs across Europe on issues relating to International Human Rights Law.