Serrano Guzmán, Silvia

Co-director of the Health and Human Rights Initiative of the O'Neill Institute for Law & Global Health at Georgetown University, as well as adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. She trains state officials, human rights defenders and civil society organisations in several countries about international human rights law. She also teaches in master's degrees and specialisation programmes at various law schools in Latin America.

Prior to joining the O'Neill Institute, she was an attorney at the Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where she managed cases submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, including cases of grave human rights violations, transitional justice, the death penalty, right to health, sexual orientation discrimination, indigenous peoples' rights, human rights defenders, the rights of children and adolescents, migrants' rights, gender-based violence, and reproductive health.

She obtained her law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, in Colombia. She also holds a Master's degree in International Legal Studies with a certificate in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University and a Master's degree in Legal Argumentation from the University of Alicante. She is currently a PhD candidate in Law at Georgetown University.