Biography: Romain Ledauphin holds an MA in History, Preservation and Documentation of Image and Sound from the Université Paris-Est Créteil (2009), a BA in History and Political Science from Université Rennes 2 (2007). He has worked as an archivist for ten years and has gathered practical knowledge in the domain of archives and justice with several transitional justice mechanism. Romain Ledauphin previously worked at the United Nations Secretariat Archives, where he was in charge of the access and declassification of archival materials related to trials at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolasvia. He later joined the ICTR to work on the disposition of its records. From 2014 to 2017, he worked for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals managing access, declassification and confidentiality of archival materials. From 2017-2018, he coordinated a research project for the Committee on Missing Person in Cyprus focusing on archival materials relevant for the search of missing persons who had disappeared during the conflict between 1964 and 1974. He joined swisspeace as a program officer in the Dealing with the Past program in 2018, where he supports various transitional justice mechanisms in Burundi, Central African Republic and Zimbabwe, Dealing with the Past Initiatives in the set-up of records and archives management programmes.
