CIL is pleased to welcome Dr Marija Jovanovic as Research Fellow with the ASEAN Law and Policy team. Marija received a doctorate from the Law Faculty, the University of Oxford in 2016 for the thesis examining the role of human rights law in addressing human trafficking. She previously completed a MPhil in Law with Distinction at Wolfson College, Oxford (2012) and Magister Juris at Linacre College, Oxford (2011). Her studies were supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Chevening Scholarship) and Open Society Foundations. She also holds an LLB from the University of Kragujevac, Serbia.

Marija taught Human Rights Law, Criminal Law, and International Law at the University of Oxford and in Serbia. She has worked as an expert consultant for the Council of Europe, the AIRE Centre (London), the Singapore Institute of Foreign Affairs, the Canada-Serbia Judicial Reform Programme (Belgrade), and the National Legislative Development Project (Hanoi) on matters concerning human rights, rule of law reforms as well as human trafficking. She interned at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and the ICTY in the Hague.