Biography

Erna is a Research Affiliate at the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre, specialising in international relations and humanitarian affairs. Her research interests include norm development and contestation, responsibility and accountability in global governance and inclusive academic practices.

She previously worked on collaborative research projects as part of the “To Save and Defend: Global Normative Ambiguity and Regional Order” SNSF project (2018-2022), and the “Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect” project (2012-2015). She held visiting research fellowships at the European University Institute, The Montreal Centre for International Studies and UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She led the International Relations program of a Hungarian higher education institution between 2011 and 2015. She worked with Ground Truth Solutions, a Vienna-based research & advocacy NGO as a consultant.

She holds a PhD from Central European University (CEU) titled Responsibilities to Protect: accountability and responsiveness in protecting populations from atrocity crimes, which traces the genealogical origins of “protection” as a norm and how this shaped the normative structure of RtoP.
 

Erna teaches courses on concepts and theories in international relations, qualitative research design, interview and survey methods and academic writing. She is the faculty lead for the Certificate of Advanced Studies programme in Accountability to Affected People, and Visiting Faculty at the Master in International & Development Studies (MINT) programme. She is a convenor of the writing politics research group. In addition to her native Hungarian, Erna is fluent in English and French and speaks Spanish.