Katerina Yiannibas, J.D.

Katerina Yiannibas is an educator and values-driven policy advisor for cross-border conflict management and prevention. She is an Associate Professor in business and human rights at the University of Deusto in San Sebastian, Spain, and a Lecturer in law of international negotiation at Columbia Law School in New York City, USA. An anthropologist and lawyer by training, her early scholarship focused on the construct of race and the intersection with diverse cultural contexts. Her current scholarship and policy work focuses on how to manage inequities in non-judicial remedies so as to promote access to justice, ranging from the design of company-based grievance mechanisms to drafting international rules for business and human rights arbitration. As a consultant, she designs conflict management and prevention systems and works to improve workplace culture by centering diversity, equity and inclusion in the strategies and the operations of her clients. Her professional experience encompasses work in government, NGOs, and education around the world: Central America, Southeast Asia, Western, Northern and Southern Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Yiannibas earned her Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Duke University in Cultural Anthropology. Professor Yiannibas is a fluent speaker of Spanish, French and Greek. Additionally, she is a certified mediator by the New York Peace Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an appointed expert for the European Commission.