Viviana Fernandez is the Assistant Director at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa. She represents the University of Ottawa in the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Network and was elected to the Steering Committee of the SAR Canada Section in 2016 and to the International Advisory Committee for the SAR Global Network in 2017. Viviana joined the Boards at Women in International Security Canada in 2015 and the Interdisciplinary Research

Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (uOttawa) in 2014. Prior to taking up her position at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Viviana worked as the Head of the Research Office at the Telfer School of Management, uOttawa since 2004. She completed her studies at the University of Concepción (Chile), the SKEMA Business School (France) and the London School of Economics (United Kingdom). Due to work and/or studies, she has lived in Chile, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.