Carolina is a migrant lawyer and economist who has worked on human rights issues for more than 20 years in different regions including Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America. She specialises on migration, asylum and gender. Carolina is the Director of Jesuit Refugee Service, Australia. Previously she was the CEO of a migrant women's rights organisation in the UK. Carolina’s expertise is on policy and advocacy and she has worked at the senior level with the British Institute of Human Rights, Refugee Council of Australia and Womankind Worldwide amongst others.
She has also worked with UNDP and the Constitutional Court in her native country Colombia. Carolina has served on different boards in London, Bangkok, Brussels, Bogota and Sydney. She is currently the co-chair of the End Child Detention Coalition Australia and the chair of the women, gender and diversity group and focal point on the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) at the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN). Carolina has ample experience of advocacy with the UN system and is a member of the UN Women’s Global Expert Working Group to address the human rights of women in the GCM. She is also a member of the board of the International Detention Coalition (IDC) and the Global Coalition for Migration (GCM).
