Siobhán MCINERNEY-LANKFORD

Siobhán McInerney-Lankford is a human rights lawyer with expertise in EU and international human rights law.

She is Head of Unit at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), leading a 25-member team working on research and policy and advising EU institutions and Member States to promote rights-compliant legal and policy responses. Siobhán also serves has chair of the FRA Legal Task Force. From 2002-2023 she worked for the World Bank Legal Department, serving in both operational and advisory capacities, including as legal advisor to the WB Human Rights Trust Fund. Prior to that she worked in private practice in Washington, D.C..

Siobhán has served as adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law and lectured at EPLO, EIUC, the Fletcher School, Harvard and the UN Summer Academy. She is currently an external practitioner for the MSc in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law at Oxford. She is the author of over fifty articles and book chapters and co-editor of Research Methods in Human Rights (Edward Elgar, 2017) and The Roles of International Law in Sustainable Development (OUP, 2023).

Siobhán holds an LL.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, (First Class Honors), an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a B.C.L. and D.Phil. (EU human rights law) both from Oxford. She is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.