Stella is a recent graduate from the MA Conflict Studies and Human Rights at Utrecht University, following a Bachelor’s in French law and common law (Droit – Parcours Juriste International) at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. During her master’s, she participated in the Open Source Global Justice Investigations Lab in a collaborative project with WITNESS on environmental investigations using open source methods with Kenya as a study case. Her studies and personal research have crafted particular interests in the region of South East Asia, in geopolitics, human rights, development, legality, and governance.
Her research interests centre on South-East Asia, covering maritime geopolitics in the Malacca Strait and South China Sea, promoting local communities and grassroots initiatives, human rights issues, security relations within the region and with the EU, as well as transitional justice methods from economic perspectives in ASEAN countries.
Contact: stella.poulain@eias.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stella-poulain-613816292/