Alessandra Enrico-Headrington

Alessandra Enrico-Headrington holds a LLB in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and also studied at the School of Law at Carlos III University of Madrid. She holds a Master’s in Human Rights from PUCP and a Master’s in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. Currently, she is pursuing a DPhil in Migration Studies at Oxford, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) scholarship. Her research focuses on asylum and temporary protection, with a particular emphasis on Venezuelan mobility and policy responses in South America.

Alessandra has worked as a legal researcher at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at PUCP and at the Special Commission for Refugees of the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Within the United Nations system in Peru, she has served as a legal officer at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and as a legal consultant at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). She has also worked as a legal advisor for the Migration Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, PUCP, specialising in international human rights law.