Francesca Albanese (online) has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 since May 2022. She is an affiliate scholar at Georgetown University and senior advisor on migration and displacement at the ARDD think tank. Albanese has published extensively on international law in Israel and Palestine and regularly teaches at universities in Europe and the Arab world. Previously, she worked as a human rights expert for various UN organisations.