Diana Trimiño

Diana Trimiño Mora is a Women’s Protection and Empowerment Policy Advisor for the IRC in the UK. She has over 10 years’ experience on women’s rights and displacement issues.

Her experience with refugee protection and displacement issues includes international legal and policy work. She has previously worked for the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and as a Refugee Resettlement Coordinator and Migrant’s Rights Adviser at the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM). Her experience on women’s rights issues includes her work in different world regions; with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.

Ms. Trimiño holds a LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from Lund University, Sweden. She has used her positions and her focus on gender issues, trafficking and asylum to hone her high level advocacy and policy development skills and deepen her understanding of comprehensive programming on women’s protection in emergencies and fragile settings.