Dr Keltoum Irbah is professor of sociology at the Geneva Business School. Since 2016, she has also held the position of co-director of the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN) summer school on human rights and development. Prior to this, Keltoum worked as assistant academic at the World Federation of United Nations Associations in Geneva, and at the UN Centre for Human Rights. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva, where she worked as assistant lecturer and researcher, with a focus on religion, civil and political rights in situations of armed conflict, and refugee issues.