Professor Melanie Klinkner is an international law scholar and lead author of the Bournemouth Protocol on Mass Grave Protection and Investigation. Since October 2023 she is working on a 5 year-long, £1.6 million project to develop a comprehensive human rights framework for Mass Grave Protection, Investigation and Engagement (MaGPIE). She led an Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Leaders Fellowship for the creation of mass grave protection guidelines with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) as project partner. In addition, she was the Principal Investigator on a Global Challenges Research Fund project on how to humanise the process of mass grave protection and investigation from the representative perspective of victims’ families. She also led a Leverhulme funded project to explore the merit of open source mass grave mapping. Together with Dr Howard Davis she is author of the monograph ‘The Right to the Truth in International Law’ (published by Routledge, 2020). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and since February 2021 a member of the 'Panel of Experts on Missing Persons' for the ICMP.