Siobhán McInerney-Lankford is Head of Unit for Equality, Roma and Social Rights. She is a human rights lawyer with expertise in EU human rights law, anti-discrimination, international development, and environmental and social policy. From 2002-2023 she worked for the World Bank’s Legal Department, serving as both an operational and advisory lawyer. She was legal advisor to the World Bank’s first Human Rights Trust Fund established in the Bank’s policy department and represented the Bank in human rights fora at the UN, EU and the OECD. Prior to joining the World Bank she worked in private practice in Washington, D.C..

Siobhán has served as an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law, and has lectured at EPLO, EIUC, the Fletcher School, Harvard and the UN Summer Academy. She is the author of over fifty articles and book chapters; she is co-editor of Human Rights Methods (Edward Elgar, 2017) and The Roles of International Law in Sustainable Development (OUP, 2023).

Siobhán holds an LL.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, (First Class Honors), an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a B.C.L. and D.Phil. (EU human rights law) both from Oxford. She is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.