Biography
Dr Angar Verma (Dr iur., LLM) is Senior Officer at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy with an Afghan-German-Indian background. His interests include the relationship between politics and international law, international legal theory, international criminal law, transnational organised crimes, human rights law and peace and conflict studies. He studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Universität zu Köln, specialising in international law, international criminal law and European law. Additionally, he obtained an LLM at the European University Institute, where he conducted interdisciplinary research at the intersection of peace and conflict studies and international law. He completed his doctoral studies at the Universität zu Köln, which included a research stay at the New York University as Gibson Dunn Fellow, with a dissertation entitled "Methodology and the Identification of International Crimes." Prior to joining the Nuremberg Academy, Dr Verma worked as Research Associate at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law in Cologne. He has also worked at the German Consulate General in Mumbai, the German Aerospace Center in Bonn, the European Journal of International Law in Florence and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.
He is fluent in English, German, Hindi and Urdu.