Clara Ramírez-Barat is a senior associate for ICTJ’s Research Unit, where she was previously a Fulbright Research Fellow. Before joining ICTJ, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Spanish High Council of Research (CSIC), where she collaborated on a study about the Politics of Memory in the European Union commissioned by the European Commission.
She obtained a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2007, with a thesis on transitional justice. She holds a B.A. in Humanities from the same university, an M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University, and a graduate degree on Constitutional Law and Political Sciences from the Center of Political and Constitutional Studies of Spain. She was the recipient of several grants during her graduate studies and did research and field work in Oxford University, Cape Town, and New York.
For the past ten years, her research has focused on different aspects of transitional justice, human rights, and democratic theory, and she has authored several publications in these topics. At ICTJ her most recent research has focused on outreach programs for transitional justice measures and the relationship between transitional justice and the socio-cultural sphere (including media, culture, and education).