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Marianne has worked as a free-lance human rights consultant in multi-disciplinary settings on disarmament, comparative constitutional law, National Human Rights Institutions, monitoring, freedom of speech, social rights, participation, rights-based development, and inclusion of persons with disabilities for more than fifteen years.
A former student of the University of Sydney Law School and a graduate of the University of Vienna Law School (SJD equivalent), she earned a Master’s in International Human Rights, including course work in anthropology and heterodox economics at the University of Notre Dame. Marianne’s aspiration is to be a human being with a law degree rather than a lawyer.
Frequently trusted with politically sensitive missions, she is known for her ability to stay firm on diplomatic messaging. She frequently works for giz, DFAT, UNDP, ICBL, among others. Her distinguished strategic abilities are sought after by clients keen to contextualize their ideas whilst holding on to a long-haul view.
Marianne’s capacity to discern complex issues is frequently relied on for both reports but also workshops as well as speaking engagements. In addition to reports, Marianne has drafted legislative text, proposals for United Nations policy documents and briefing papers for a range of political levels.
Marianne is a Board Member of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry and Chairs the Board of Paris Lodron University Salzburg. She coordinated the Austrian civil society platform for the Universal Periodic Review in 2011 & 2015 and served on the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency Platform’s Advisory Panel 2014-2017. Marianne served as the inaugural Chair of the Monitoring Committee for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Austria 2008-2015.