PHD THESIS
Title : International Law and the Financialization of the Global Pharmaceutical Market
PhD Supervisors & Co-Supervisor: Anne Saab & `Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Expected completion date: 2024
Profile
Dena is a PhD candidate in International Law (minor in Anthropology & Sociology) at the Graduate Institute. She is a Solicitor (admitted in England & Wales). She holds a bachelor's degree in Human Sciences from University College London and a master's degree in Global Health Law & International Institutions from Georgetown Law and the Graduate Institute. She is Teaching Assistant of the Graduate Institute's interdisciplinary (MINT) program. She was a research assistant on the Global Health Centre’s FINPHARM project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation which explores the impact of Financialization on Global Health through a series of pharmaceutical case studies. She has previously worked in private practice in the City of London representing both buy and sell side finance clients and consulted for the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office’s (WPRO) Health Law & Ethics team. Her research currently focuses on the interests of financial actors in law and development, history and legal theory, anthropology of law, and transnational regulation of finance and pharmaceuticals.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Global Health Law
- Global Financial Regulation
- Third World Approaches to International Law
- Feminist and Queer Approaches to International Law
- Anthropology of Law
Academic work experiences
Research Assistant, Global Health Centre
other work experiences
- Trainee Solicitor, England & Wales (2010 - 2012)
- Solicitor, England & Wales (2012-2016)
- Research Assistant, Business and Health through Economic and Political Lenses: Concepts, problems and strategies for governance Project, Global Health Centre
- Consultant, Health Law & Ethics, World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office (2018-2020)