Biography
Hanna Yovita is a former co-director of the Indonesian Society of International Law. Prior to her election as a Rhodes Scholar, Hanna had trained at a prominent law firm in Jakarta and further worked as a policy researcher. Her research as an undergraduate and in her early career had contributed to reports on a variety of subjects across international environmental law and human rights, including sovereignty over natural resources, comparative LGBTQI+ rights, and implementation of international obligations on marine environmental protection. The latter was adopted in a government report to the International Maritime Organization-funded Straits of Malacca cooperation.
At Oxford, Hanna read for the M.Phil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, where her thesis sought to interrogate the networks of evidence that form the discourse conceptualising 'food security' in the Climate COPs. Her research interests still lie in the empirical testing of regulatory changes, critical social-historical dimensions to legal studies, and politics of knowledge more broadly.
Hanna proceeded to obtain an English Law diploma with Distinction and is completing the re-qualification process for England & Wales at a Magic Circle firm in London. She currently sits in pro bono-litigation, managing the flagship asylum workstream while taking part in projects around family law, welfare benefits, and racial justice. In her own time, Hanna is involved with grassroots community organisations around East London, reads works on social history, and trains in the Vaganova method of classical ballet.