Dr. Sorcha MacLeod

Dr Sorcha MacLeod is an Associate Professor and Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellow at the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. She is an international human rights law expert specialising in researching and teaching business, human rights and security, in particular the human rights impacts and regulation of Private Military and Security Companies. She holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, and an LLM in International Natural Resources Law and LLB (Hons) in Scots Law from the University of Dundee, UK. Prior to moving to Copenhagen she taught at Free University Berlin and at the University of Sheffield, UK. In July 2018 she was appointed for six years as an independent human rights expert to the UN Working Group on the use of Mercenaries under the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures. She is an invited expert to the UN Open-ended Inter-governmental Working Group on PMSCs and participated in the drafting of the Montreux Document on PMSCs and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. She has Observer Status at the International Code of Conduct Association. She advises governments, industry and civil society organisations on business, human rights and security issues.