At the IACHR Ms. Mansel works with Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. She graduated from the Catholic University of Peru Law School and she has earned an LL.M. degree in Public International Law from Leiden University. Immediately prior to assuming her current position in July 2006 she was based in Peru working for the Ministry of the Presidency in development issues. In 2004 Ms. Mansel earned the R�mulo Gallegos Fellowship of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She has also worked as Assistant Legal Officer at the Victims Participation and Reparation Unit of the International Criminal Court and at the Institute of International Studies of her hometown university. She was also an intern at the Executive Secretariat of the Andean Community and legal assistant at Pe�a, Lozano, Faura & Associates, in Peru.