Sectoral Orienteering: Christina Velentza

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the eighth annual “Sectoral Orienteering”; one of the flagship events organized by the Sectoral Education and Professional Development team.  This year’s event is taking place between 5 – 9 March, 2018 at the Çekmeköy Campus.

We bring together the leading names of the business world with our students in many different themes such as sectoral talks, panels, case studies, interview simulations, cultural and sporting events, technical visits, interviews and workshop studies.

As the department of International Relations, we are hosting a series of talks on the larger theme “politics in a digital age.” Our guest speaker on 5 March is international refugee law expert, Christina Veletza. The event will be held in AB2 room G10. 

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Christina Velentza, Consultant - PhD International Refugee Law, Attorney at Law (velentza_x@hotmail.com, +90 553 177 64 95)

Christina Velentza was an Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation fellow with the International Law Programme and Europe Programme in 2015-16. She is an attorney at law and legal adviser with the Athens Bar Association, Greece. She has worked for the Greek Asylum Service (Ministry of Interior) in partnership with UNHCR on refugee status determination procedure and assessment of claims for international protection. She has previously worked for the EEAS, Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU and NGOs in the field of human rights. Her research interests are international and European law, refugee law, internal displacement and international cooperation and she is currently researching the cooperation between Greece and Turkey through the Syrian refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. Christina is a PhD candidate in international refugee law, holds her MA in European Studies (Law) from the University of Strasbourg and her BA in Law from the Demokriteion University of Komotini, Greece.