Paola Fudakowska

Paola Fudakowska is a public international law and human rights lawyer. She has a varied human rights-focused practice which includes advising global businesses in understanding the potential applicability and implications of sustainability and human rights due diligence regulation and bringing her litigation expertise to a Geneva-based NGO which builds claims under universal jurisdiction to fight impunity for war crimes.

Paola has 15 years experience as litigation counsel at an international law firm in London and Geneva, advising high net worth families and their professional advisors on complex cross-jurisdiction wealth disputes. Paola left private practice to develop her human rights expertise as a legal adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London and Geneva, advising on the UK government’s strategic priorities including development of human rights policy.

Paola is Honorary President of AIJA – the International Association of Young Lawyers and Co-founder of the AIJA Women Network.