Kate
Levine

Kate Levine is a Senior Legal Program Manager at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch initiative. Prior to joining the Foundation, Kate worked for the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre as a Lawyer and Senior Legal Consultant for over ten years, challenging human rights violations in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Kate conducted strategic litigation and advocacy before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations, challenging state repression of critical voices, civilians impacted by inter-state conflict, and state responsibility for gender-based discrimination. Kate has also consulted for the Council of Europe on gender discrimination projects in Georgia and is a member of the Council of Europe network of specialised lawyers assisting victims of gender-based violence. Kate has experience with grant making and impact assessment, having worked as a Human Rights Programme Officer for the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Kate started her legal career as an international disputes lawyer with a global law firm in London after qualifying as a UK solicitor in 2009. Kate holds an LLM, LLB (Hons), and a BA (Hons) Philosophy and Politics, and speaks fluent English and French.