Natalia Voutova
Head of Council of Europe Office in Georgia
Natalia Voutova has an MSc in Behavioral Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and for several years has been using behavioural science for prevention and fight against discrimination, domestic violence, and benevolent sexism as a way to fight stigma and attitudes. She uses applied theatre in this context. Natalia is the behavioural science lead at the Council of Europe promoting its use in different states.
Currently, Natalia Voutova is the Head of the CoE Office in Georgia. She has extensive experience working for international organisations on human rights and legal policies in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
Natalia also worked for Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in Chechnya during the first conflict (1995) gathering information on human rights violations and coordinating the delivery of medical and humanitarian assistance.
She has wide knowledge and experience related to international humanitarian law. She also holds an MA degree in Law from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”, an MA degree in International and European Law from Pantheon-Assas University (Paris II), and an LLM in Human Rights from the University of Strasbourg.
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