Dr. Neža Kogovšek Šalamon is a senior research fellow and director of the Peace Institute. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana in 2002. As a Ron Brown Scholar of the US Department of State, she obtained her master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Notre Dame (USA) in 2004. In 2006, she passed the bar exam. She received her doctorate in 2011 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation on the constitutional, international law, and comparative aspects of erasure from the register of permanent residents. She worked at the Legal Information Centre for Non-Governmental Organisations (PIC) in Ljubljana and at the international non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch in New York.
In 2005, she joined the research team of the Peace Institute, and in October 2012, she was appointed director of the Peace Institute. In addition to her management duties, her professional work includes project management, research, legal analysis, publishing, lecturing at universities and other institutions, and leading workshops. She is a member of the European Network of Legal Experts on Non-Discrimination, the European Network of Lawyers on Migration Law (MigNet), the European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), and the Odysseus Academic Network, which brings together legal experts in the field of asylum and migration. In 2016, she was voted one of the 10 most influential lawyers in Slovenia and nominated for the 2017 Young European Leaders program.
