Diego is the Policy Officer at the Commission. He is originally from Colombia. Most recently, Diego was an independent expert on Human Rights Institutions for the European Commission’s Peer Review Mission to Turkey on Judiciary and Fundamental Rights (2011).

Before joining the Commission he held a lectureship in Law at the Robert Gordon University and was a visiting lecturer at Universitat Jaume I, Spain, and ESC Clermont, France.Diego has a LLM in International Human Rights Law, Organisations and Humanitarian Law from the Lund University, Sweden, and his academic work in the areas of human rights law, asylum and immigration and the responsibilities of non-state actors under international law has been published internationally. His research has led to him working with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights at Harvard University, United States (link). He has also worked as a legal intern with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Costa Rica, Central America and previously worked in Colombia as a corporate lawyer and as a research assistant for the judiciary.