Christoph Sperfeldt

ASEAN Regional Programs Fellow
Christoph  Sperfeldt
Christoph Sperfeldt is a senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University. He led the Center for Human Rights and International Justice's programs in Southeast Asia from 2011-2018, supporting research and capacity development in the areas of human rights, transitional justice and rule of law. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law at the Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia, and an Associate of the Asia Law Centre at Melbourne Law School. Christoph was Senior Research Fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School (2018-2021), where he led the Centre’s Asia-Pacific engagement. He was also Senior Advisor with the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Cambodia. In this capacity, he worked as an Advisor to the Secretariat of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) and as Advisor to the Victims Support Section of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Christoph holds a PhD from the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University and has published widely in the field of transitional justice and human rights.