Natalia Voutova

Natalia is a human rights lawyer who has been engaged in promoting democracy, rule of law and international humanitarian law in Europe and Central Asia for the past two decades while working for Doctors without Borders (MSF), the Council of Europe, and OSCE. Previously she worked namely as Deputy Coordinator of the MSF mission to Chechnya in 1996, Legal adviser on War crimes at the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office to Ukraine, and Head of the Council of Europe Office in Armenia.

In recent years, Natalia has been extensively teaching human rights law at universities in Armenia and Bulgaria. She holds an LLM cum laude in International Human Rights Law from the University of Strasbourg, an MA in International and European Law from Paris II University and a law degree from Sofia University in Bulgaria.

Since being a bureaucrat in a European International Organization did not always satisfy Natalia’s curiosity about the world, she recently completed an MSc in Behavioral Science at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and now is applying her new-found skills in developing public policies such as fight against discrimination and gender-based violence.

She is currently the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Georgia.