For Admission
Cristina Franchini holds a law degree and a PHD in international law.
She started working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2007, as a legal officer, at the beginning in the area of arrivals by sea and reception of asylum seekers and then, for many years, in the Italian procedure for the determination of international protection.
Now she works for UNHCR in the area of communication and external relations.