Dr Danielle Celermajer was formerly Director of Indigenous Policy at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, before moving to New York to complete her doctorate (summa cum laude) at Columbia University in political theory, international law and human rights.

She taught human rights at Columbia and ran an international project on religion and human rights at the Columbia Centre for the Study of Human Rights, establishing a global network of scholars and activists working at the interface of religion and human rights.

In 2005 she returned to her alma mater, the University of Sydney with a view to developing the University's human rights program and global linkages.

She is currently writing two books, one on political apologies and transitional justice, and another in collaboration with Muslim and Christian scholars on women's interfaith perspectives on sacred texts. Her major research interests are the relationship between secular and religious and global and local narratives of rights and justice, collective responsibility and societal responses to gross violations in the past, international justice, and Indigenous rights and neo-colonialism.

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