Danaé van der Straten Ponthoz

Danaé van der Straten Ponthoz is Head of International Advocacy and Policy at the Global Survivors Fund. Prior to this, she advised the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office on the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) and lead accountability and research projects for international institutions and civil society organisations including Human Rights Watch, TRIAL International and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations. A key contributor to the Murad Code for enhancing survivors' safe and ethical engagement and the author of the PSVI’s International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Danaé has conducted investigations and supported litigation and victims of conflict-related sexual violence in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Danaé holds a LL.M. with honours from Columbia University and is admitted to practice in Geneva, New York and England & Wales.