Roberta Ruggiero holds an MA in Law, an MA in Human Rights and Democratisation, and a PhD in Promotion and Protection of Children’s Rights. She is Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Geneva’s Centre for Children's Rights Studies, Switzerland, where she also works as coordinator of the Master and the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR). Since 2014, she is also the scientific coordinator of the University of Geneva’s Summer School Children at the Heart of Human Rights.