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Sophie Ryan

Election Year: 2020

Election Constituency: Australia

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: Australia at-Large and Magdalen 2020

Sophie Ryan

Biography

Sophie Ryan will graduate from The University of Queensland with a BArts/Laws (with majors in Peace and Conflict Studies and Studies in Religion) in 2019. She was awarded a George Georges Research Scholarship and is a New Colombo Plan Fellow (Singapore). Sophie has worked as a Legal Intern with the World Bank in Vietnam and for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Singapore, and has completed research work for Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights and for the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. She is currently Associate to the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission, Justice SC Derrington. Her core interests are in international conflict resolution.

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