Guest Speakers

Filipe Ataíde Lampe is Communications Specialist at the Germany Representation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations' development agency, in Berlin. Before joining UNDP, he served as Communications Manager Politics at Stiftung Mercator, a private foundation, in Berlin. Earlier, he worked at the European Policy Centre, a Brussels-based think tank, as Project Manager for Climate and Environmental Policy and for the "Connecting Europe" initiative. He began his career as a trainee at the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships, the department responsible for the EU's international development cooperation, in Brussels.

Filipe holds two master's degrees: one in EU International Relations from the College of Europe, a postgraduate institute of European studies in Bruges, and one in Governance and Democracy Studies from the Catholic University of Portugal. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Politics and Economics from the University of Würzburg in Germany.

A dual Portuguese-German citizen, Filipe is an alumnus of the John-Lennon-Gymnasium in Berlin.

Anja Mihr is a political scientist and Head of the Center on Governance through Human Rights at the Berlin Governance Platform, and holds the DAAD Professorship for Political Science, European Studies, Human Rights and Transitional Justice at the Mohyla University (NaUKMA) in Kyiv, Ukraine. She also leads the academic direction of the EU- and OSCE-funded Programme on Human Rights and Sustainability (MAHRS) at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

She has previously held the Franz Haniel Chair for Public Policy at the University of Erfurt and was for many years a professor at the Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University, having earlier directed the European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice. Her visiting professorships include Columbia University in New York and Peking University in Beijing.

Mihr completed her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 2001 and has worked with institutions including the German Institute for Human Rights, the OSCE, and the GIZ. From 2018 to 2023 she chaired the Scientific Committee of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna, and she has served on the Council of the Global Campus of Human Rights since 2023.