Paola Degani is a Senior Research, Aggregate Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, where she teaches Public Policies and Human Rights and Women’s Human Rights. She is also a member of the PHD Board on Joint PhD Programme in Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance managed by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padova and of the National PhD in Peace Studies organized by the La Sapienza Roma University.

She has over 30 years experience managing and directing multinational research programmes focusing on women’s human rights, violence against women, migrant women, trafficking in human beings, migration flows and severe exploitation at national and EU level. Her current research interests focus primarily on the development of justiciability for women’s rights, public policies against VAW and  public policies and regulatory instruments to dismantle severe exploitation against migrant people in the EU and national context.

She currently serves as Book Review Editor and Regular Associate Editor of Frontier in Human Dynamics section Dynamics of Migration and (Im)Mobility and Frontiers in Political Science. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG). She has authored and edited books, policy reports, special issues and articles in peer-reviewed journals, and in other publications including Contemporary Italian Politics, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Studi sulla questione criminale, La cittadinanza europea, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Frontiers in Political Science, Human Rights Governance.