Judith Schönsteiner studied her M.A. in political science in Mainz and Strasbourg (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) between 1998 and 2003, and received both her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law (2006) and her PhD in Law (2011) from the University of Essex (UK). Since 2009, she lives and works in Santiago de Chile, where she is Associate Professor at the Law School of the Universidad Diego Portales, and member of its Human Rights Centre, which she directed between 2012 and 2017. Her research focuses on economic regulation, business and human rights. She has worked on human rights obligations of state-owned enterprises (project funded by the Chilean Fondecyt program) and was in charge of the National Baseline Study on Business and Human Rights (2016), commissioned by the Danish Institute of Human Rights. Between 2014 and 2016, she was a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Persons with Disability. She has also researched on the institutions and procedures of the Inter-American System of Human Rights, the ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, interpretation and incorporation of international human rights law in Chilean constitutional law. Since March 2019, she is a member of the Independent Expert Panel on the Selection of Commissioners and Judges in the Inter-American System.