Gissou Nia is a lawyer specialized in human rights and international criminal law. She is the founder and director of the Strategic Litigation Project, which focuses on accountability and prevention for human rights violations and atrocity crimes. Nia began her career in The Hague, where she worked on war crimes and crimes against humanity trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court. She serves on the board of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center where she aims to promote accountability, human rights, and the rule of law in Iran. After the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022, Nia led a successful campaign to have the Islamic Republic of Iran removed from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Since March 2023, Nia has been a founding member and legal advisor to the End Gender Apartheid campaign, an effort to codify the crime of gender apartheid under international law. She lectures and publishes widely on global human rights developments, as well as the rule of law in post-conflict and transitional societies.