Dr Ibrahima Guissé
Vice-Chair of the African Union Committee of Experts on Reparations (AUCER) and Member of the CERD
A career at the intersection of academia, human rights advocacy, international policy dialogue, and global governance issues.
Ibrahima Guissé is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). He served, in particular, as Rapporteur for an important joint CERD-CMW General Recommendation addressing xenophobia against migrants and persons perceived as such. He is also an expert on the African Union Committee of Experts on Reparations (AUCER), where he coordinates the working group dedicated to Global governance and Structural Reparations.
International expert and sociologist, Dr. Ibrahima Guissé has extensive experience in high-level policy dialogue with States, strategic research, and the development of partnerships between public institutions, international organizations, universities, and civil society.
His commitment to human rights took on a new dimension during the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban in 2001, where he participated as a representative of the African diaspora in Europe.
In 2004, he founded the Geneva Office of the African Meeting for the Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO), an organization committed to the promotion and protection of human rights. Through this initiative, he notably contributed to integrating several young academics into Geneva’s international human rights ecosystem, providing them with opportunities for training, engagement, and international career development.
He is also a co-founder of the Centre for Research and Action on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CRADESC), based in Dakar, Senegal. He has further contributed to the establishment of several diaspora community platforms addressing strategic issues related to socio-economic development, historical injustices, and global governance.
He holds a PhD in Economic and Social Sciences in Sociology, from the University of Geneva, as well as degrees in Sociology and Political Science from Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, Senegal. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of Sociological Research (IRS) of the University of Geneva.
His research and publications focus in particular on international students, vulnerability and agency, migration and human rights, systemic discrimination, and public policy.
