Shams Asadi is Human Rights Commissioner and Head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna. She is a university of technology graduate and has many years of practical and academic experience in Urban Regeneration and Urban Development with a focus on European and international affairs. The human rights dimension of urban development has accompanied her from the beginning of her professional life and since 2010, with human rights being the main subject of her career. The thematic focus of her work includes Human Rights City in multi-level governance, promoting and capacity building for human rights in local administrations, urban security, and human rights education.
