Dr Corinne Lennox is Professor of Human Rights and International Relations. She is based
in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and is Co-Director of the Human Rights
Consortium, both at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research
focuses on the transnational social mobilisation of minority groups and Indigenous peoples,
and on the global governance of minority rights. She has worked closely with civil society
organisations focused on issues of caste-based discrimination, LGBT+ human rights and
on development policy, as well as advising governments and UN agencies on minority
rights. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Centre for Pluralism
regarding the Global Pluralism Monitor and an Advisor to the Tom Lantos Institute. She is
author of Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights: Identity, Advocacy and
Norms (Routledge 2020), co-editor of the Handbook on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
(Routledge 2015), and co-editor of the open-access book Human Rights, Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and
Change (University of London 2013). She was appointed as Co-Editor of the Journal of
Human Rights Practice (OUP) in 2021. She holds a PhD and MSc in International Relations
from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in the Theory and
Practice of Human Rights from Essex University and an Hons BA in Political Science from
McMaster University.