Somewhere beyond the confines imposed on a little girl growing up under brutal dictatorship and house arrest lay a tiny local library whose books managed to trickle their way home. In this desolate and dark world, those books shined like borrowed nuggets of gold. For me, knowledge was emotionally charged from the start, synonymous with empowerment. And freedom.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Université Jean Monnet Paris XI
Paris | France

Master’s Degree in International Law
École Supérieure des Hautes Études Internationales
Paris | France

Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law
Graduate Institute of International Studies
Geneva | Switzerland

Specialized Training in European Law
Universidad Complutense
Madrid | Spain

Visiting Scholar
Harvard Law School
Boston | USA

Ph.D candidate in International Law
Graduate Institute of International Studies
Geneva | Switzerland

DISTINCTIONS

Harvard Law School

As a visiting scholar at Harvard University by personal invitation of the late Professor Jonathan Mann, former director of the United Nations World Health Organization and founder of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Ndoema researched and subsequently published her seminal thesis, successfully establishing an unheard-of alternative perspective on the role of women as engineers of social change in developing nations, which has since become accepted in mainstream debate.

PhD Thesis

The Transformative Power of International Human Rights Law, HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Women’s Status In Developing Countries.

ERASMUS Scholar

Pioneer recipient of the prestigious Bourse Communautaire ERASMUS
(Mulitlateral scholarship of the European Union rewarding excellence in higher education).

Master’s Thesis

An Exploration of Non-Violent Alternatives to Nuclear Deterrence.