Katja Creutz
Programme Director, Editor in Chief (Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs)- International law, especially responsibility issues
- Human rights
- Global governance
Katja Creutz is Acting Deputy Director of FIIA and Programme Director of the Global Security and Governance research programme. She is also an Affiliated Research Fellow with the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki. Her main field of expertise is international law and especially issues of responsibility, human rights and global governance. Dr Creutz holds a Doctor of Laws degree (2015) and a Master of Laws programme degree from the University of Helsinki (2004) and a Master of Political Science from Åbo Akademi University (2000).
Creutz has previously worked as Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights of the University of Helsinki. She is the former Executive Editor of the Finnish Yearbook of International Law. She has published extensively on responsibility in international law, non-state actors, human rights and Nordic issues.
The latest academic publications by Creutz include: The Law of International Responsibility Situated: From Halcyon Days to a Fragmented Global Order, Multilateral Development Banks as Agents of Connectivity: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Rights Protection: Revisionist or Just Another Kid on the Block? and Nordic Experiences in the UN Human Rights Council: A Tour d’Horizon of 2019 with Iceland and Denmark. She is also the author of the monograph State Responsibility in the International Legal Order: A Critical Appraisal (CUP, 2020).
Degrees
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), University of Helsinki, 2015
Master of Laws (LL.M.)-Programme (International Law), University of Helsinki, 2004
Master of Political Science (International Law), Åbo Akademi University, 2000
Language skills
Swedish, Finnish, English (working languages), French (satisfactory)
Positions of trust
Member of the Executive Board for the Aleksanteri-institute’s Programme on East Central European, Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2010-2012
Member/Deputy Member of the Steering Committee of the Erik Castrén-institute, 2007-2010
Deputy Member of the Postgraduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Law/University of Helsinki, 2007-2009
Executive Editor of the Finnish Yearbook of International Law, 2005-2009
Member of the Board of Ius Gentium, 2005-2011
Work experience
Doctoral Candidate in International Law at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research and the Faculty of Law/ University of Helsinki, 2006-2013
Research Fellow, the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, 2005-2006
Part-time Research Assistant, Institute of Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, 2000
Intern, UN Headquarters, New York, 1998
Trainee, Finnish Embassy in The Hague, 1998
Education
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), 2015
Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
Member of the Graduate School in Human Rights Research, 2006-2013
Administrated by Åbo Akademi
Member of the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research, 2006-2011
University of Helsinki
LLM-Progamme, 2004
International Law
Faculty of Law/ University of Helsinki
MPolSc, 2000
International Law
Department of Law, Faculty of Economics & Social Sciences/ Åbo Akademi University