Dr. Yulia Ioffe is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) at University College London (UCL). Before joining UCL, Dr. Ioffe was a postdoctoral fellow in children's rights law at Queen Mary University of London and a researcher in international refugee law at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. 

Dr. Ioffe also clerked for H.E. Judge James R. Crawford at the International Court of Justice and worked at the UNHCR Representation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the UNHCR Regional Representation for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, and a New York litigation firm. 

She has completed her DPhil (PhD) in Law degree (no corrections) from University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis focused on the rights of asylum seeking children and the role of international organisations in treaty interpretation in this field. She holds an LL.M degree with concentration in international human rights law from Harvard Law School, where she worked at the Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic and served as an Editor for the Harvard International Law Journal. She has also completed LLB (Hons) and LLM (Hons) degrees from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Institute of International Relations, Ukraine.