BIOGRAPHY

Mariana Pena is a legal officer for international justice with the Open Society Justice Initiative, based in The Hague.

Prior to joining the Justice Initiative, Pena was a consultant in the field of justice, human rights, and civil society. She was previously a member of a victims’ legal representation team in one of the Kenya cases before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and, prior to that, she worked for the International Federation for Human Rights as a Permanent Representative to the ICC. Pena held volunteer positions with the ICC, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the American NGO Coalition for the ICC. She is a qualified attorney in her native country, Argentina, where she handled litigation and also worked as a tribunal clerk.

Pena holds a law degree from El Salvador University (Argentina), an LLM in international and comparative law from Uppsala University (Sweden), and a master’s degree in international organizations from Sorbonne University (France). She is a published author of articles on international tribunals and victims’ access to justice, and is fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.