Chiara-Lou Parriaud

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Chiara-Lou Parriaud (LinkedIn) is a Legal and Policy Researcher at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), where she contributes to the Impact Litigation program to free political dissidents arbitrarily detained in authoritarian countries. A graduate from the Sciences Po-Columbia University dual BA program, she earned the Cum Laude distinction for her BA in Politics & Government from Sciences Po and the Summa Cum Laude distinction for her BA in Human Rights from Columbia University, where she was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Chiara-Lou has conducted reporting field work for Al Ahram Hebdo in Cairo, Egypt, and has volunteered in Greece, France and the United States in immigration centers. She is an incoming student in Sciences Po’s Law and Economics Masters Degree, where she aims to continue integrating a human rights perspective into her legal practice.

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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after a hearing in his trial on charges of illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris, on March 27, 2025. French prosecutors requested on March 27, 2025, a seven-year prison sentence for former president Nicolas Sarkozy in his trial on charges of accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libyan dictator. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)

The Sarkozy-Gaddafi Trial Exposes Corruption’s Devastating Effect on Libyans

Jun. 16, 2025 Chiara-Lou Parriaud and Grace Spalding-Fecher