Kiran Auerbach holds an MA degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe (cum laude), jointly issued by the University of Sarajevo and University of Bologna.  Her thesis, “Human Rights Institutions and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina for Iraq,” was selected for publication as one of the best theses of the year. Kiran obtained her BA in International Relations from Stanford University.  She completed internships at the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights in Vienna, where she worked for the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.  From 2008 to 2010, she worked as an Academic Tutor at the University of Sarajevo’s Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (CIPS).  During the 2009-2010 academic year, she also co-founded the Summer Research University Srebrenica-Potocari, an initiative supported by the Memorial Center Srebrenica-Potocari that hosts graduate students and researchers conducting research projects on post-conflict and transitional justice issues. Kiran worked as a junior researcher on a research project on minority rights at Analitika in 2011.