Claire Mahon is a human rights advocate and international lawyer based in Geneva, Switzerland. Before leaving to set up her own business in July 2012, she was a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and joint Founder and Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and coordinates the University of Michigan Law School's Geneva International Fellows Program. For two years, from 2009-2010, Claire was also the Special Advisor to Mary Robinson (the former Chair of the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations, and former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), and from 2007-2008 was legal advisor to the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler.Claire has previously worked for Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Service for Human Rights, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her work has focused on monitoring economic, social and cultural rights, including in the field. She has experience in designing and providing training on international human rights law and practice to diplomats, advocates, field officers, UN staff, and students in over 30 countries.Claire teaches on public international law, international human rights law, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, and international organisations, including at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and as a guest lecturer at various universities around the world. She facilitates professional training courses at the Geneva Academy and for various governments, national human rights institutions, and non-governmental organisations, on economic, social and cultural rights, international human rights law and the UN human rights system.Claire has published on a variety of international human rights law topics, for academic publications and non-governmental organisations. She is the principle author of Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights (Geneva: COHRE, 2007), and prepared the MultiStakeholder Guidelines for Mega-Events and Housing Rights (Geneva: COHRE, 2007), published in French, Spanish and Chinese. She is the co-author of The Right to Food: Lessons Learned (with Jean Ziegler, Christophe Golay and Sally-Anne Way, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011), and the co-editor of Realizing the Right to Health (with Andrew Clapham, Mary Robsinson, and Scott Jerbi), published by Rüffer and Rub in May 2009. Claire was admitted to practice as barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court of Australia in 2001, and holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) from the Australian National University (ANU), a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations and Development Studies) from ANU, a Diplôme d'études approfondies (LLM/M.Phil equivalent) in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and is completing a PhD on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva.