Christian Ranheim is a Norwegian human rights lawyer with 25 years of experience from academia and in managing complex human rights projects internationally. He brings extensive experience from previous work in the Asia Pacific region, including as a former country director for RWI’s Indonesia office in Jakarta. He is the founder of the Judicial System Monitoring Programme in Timor Leste, a former ceasefire monitor in Sri Lanka and has implemented programmes in Cambodia and the Solomon Islands on behalf of the International Criminal Court. After leaving his position as a senior adviser at the Norwegian National Preventive Mechanism against torture in 2019, he has acted as an independent consultant assisting clients on a variety of topics, including business and human rights in cooperation with KPMG.
In addition to holding managerial positions, Mr. Ranheim has a strong academic background. He worked for over a decade at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo and taught classes on international criminal law in addition to supervising master students on their thesis relating to human rights and conflict. He holds a law degree from the University of Oslo and still teaches human rights and international criminal law at universities in Asia and Europe.