Alexandra Malangone is Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe


Alexandra Malangone is Associate Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Europe. Recently Alexandra joined KIND as a Project Director, Europe (February 2024). She is a Slovak human rights lawyer and a former Chair of the Board of Directors at Human Rights League, a prominent Slovak NGO in the field of immigration and asylum law, where she worked as a Senior Lawyer between 2012-2017. As Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe, she coordinates the Human Trafficking Initiative Hub. She served as an independent expert in the Council of Europe monitoring Committee GRETA (Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings) (2008-2016). Since 2016, Alex has been a member of the Direction of Exercise in six OSCE simulation-based trainings held in Vicenza, Italy regarding combating human trafficking in mixed migratory flows. She has assisted KIND as a consultant since 2022, and ECPAT since 2017. Because of her work in the region between 2018-2021, Alex is regularly called upon as an expert witness regarding trafficking in human beings in front of the UK immigration tribunals for cases relating to the return of vulnerable trafficking victims - former unaccompanied and separated children minors to Morocco. In 2022, she was appointed an expert consultant of the Slovak National Crime Agency in the investigation of war crimes perpetuated in Ukraine. She is regularly consulting for numerous Italian prosecutorial and law enforcement offices on issues related to nexuses between organized crime/polycrime/trafficking, corruption, and migratory issues. In December 2023 she received a prestigious Human Rights Defender Award from the US Embassy in Bratislava for her sustained leadership in advocating for the protection of rights of trafficking victims and migrants, and for her tireless efforts to hold accountable the perpetrators of crimes committed against refugees from Ukraine.