Kamelia Kemileva

Executive Manager and
Liaison Officer to the FDFA

Kamelia Kemileva is lawyer with a Master’s degree in International Public Law from the University of Geneva. She also holds a MBA diploma, with a focus on non-profit organizations. Kamelia is currently Project Manager to the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, in Geneva Switzerland. She handles Academy research projects, including those related to the UN Human Rights Council and other human rights mechanisms.

In parallel, she has recently worked closely with the Government of Geneva on the establishment of a Centre for Global Cooperation. This project significantly developed her knowledge and contacts within the areas of migration, health, science, disarmament, refugees, environment, trade, both in Geneva and worldwide.

Before joining the Academy, Kamelia worked as a Special Assistant to the President of the UN Human Rights Council for three years. During this period, she advised the President on political and substantive issues. She was also in charge of various format negotiations namely with Member States, regional and other coordinators, governmental and non-governmental organisations, national institutions and other participants. She handled the follow-up relations between the General Assembly of the United Nations through working, amongst other channels, with the Office of the President of the General Assembly.

Kamelia has always been working closely with the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first as part of it and now as a consultant. Prior to this, she was part, for a short period of time, of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office in New York. Before changing her career direction to the public sector, Kamelia worked for two years in the private sector in a Geneva-based bank where her tasks involved the establishment of, and follow-up to, clients’ legal files and the creation of a database of the relevant information with regard to regulations against money laundering as Compliance Officer’s assistant.

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