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Stefan Schlegel
Areas of work at the SHRI
The Director has overall operational responsibility for the Institution. This includes leading the team and overseeing the quality of its work. The Director is the public face of the Institution and works to ensure its development capacity, both financially and in terms of content. The role also involves responsibility for liaison with the Committee.
Education and experience
Stefan Schlegel (he/ him) trained as a lawyer. He was a research assistant at the University of Bern and gained a PhD in 2017 with a thesis on migration law. In 2015 he completed a research placement at the University of Toronto. Between 2016 and 2018 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. He was a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Bern from 2019 to 2021. He has been working on a postdoctoral thesis on the protective scope of the property guarantee since 2021. In addition to his academic work, Stefan has always been actively involved in civil society. He joined the SHRI in early 2024 and leads on the «Democracy and Human Rights» priority area.
Languages: German, French, English