Caroline Lichuma is a PhD candidate at the Georg-August Universität, Göttingen. She graduated from the University of Nairobi in 2010 with a Bachelor of Laws degree and thereafter undertook her Master of Laws degree in International Legal Studies at the New York University School of Law where she was a Dean Graduate scholar. Caroline is also a Certified Public Accountant – Kenya and has worked as an academic. She was the 2014 Emer De Vattel Scholar at The Hague Academy of International Law’s Public International Law Summer School and received a diploma in Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights from the Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland in 2016.

Caroline’s expertise is in the field of international human rights where she has published widely and carried out research. She has conducted research at UNICEF and CESR in New York and was a research fellow at Hakijamii in Nairobi, Kenya.