Professor Susan Harris Rimmer Independent Reviewer
Professor Susan Harris Rimmer focuses on international human rights law, climate justice and gender equality in the Griffith Law School and is a member of the Law Futures Centre.
Sue leads the Climate Justice theme of the Griffith Climate Action Beacon. She is the founder of the EveryGen coalition which seeks to amplify the voices of current and future generations and highlight the long-term impacts of today’s policy decisions. With Professor Sara Davies, Susan is co-convenor of the Griffith Gender Equality Research Network.
Susan was the 2021 winner of the Fulbright Scholarship in Australian-United States Alliance Studies (funded by DFAT) and was hosted by Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2022. She was named a Top Innovator by Uplink World Economic Forum for the Climate Justice Challenge in 2022 for the creation of the Climate Justice Observatory She won the Bertha Lutz Prize for research on women in diplomacy awarded by the Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy and The Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) of the International Studies Association (ISA) in 2021.
Susan provided the independent Human Rights Assessment for the successful FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2032 Bid in 2020 and was the Human Rights Adviser to GOLDOC for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Susan is the editor of Climate Politics in Oceania (MUP 2024 with Caitlin Byrne and Wes Morgan), Futures of International Criminal Justice (Routledge 2022, with Emma Palmer, Edwin Bikundo and Martin Clark), the Research Handbook for Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar 2019, with Kate Ogg); and author of Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of Timor Leste (Routledge, 2010) and over 44 refereed academic works in leading journals.
In 2014 she was named one of the Westpac and Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence in the Global category. Sue was named one of 100 global gender experts by Apolitical 2018 for her work on the G20, and one of 20 Queensland Voices Female Leaders in 2019.
She was the Director of the Griffith University Policy Innovation Hub (from July 2020 - December 2023), and was Deputy Dean (Research) of the Law School. Prior to joining Griffith, Susan was the Director of Studies at the ANU Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and a Non-resident Fellow at Chatham House. Prior to academia, Sue was the Advocacy lead at the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and has also worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the National Council of Churches and the Parliamentary Library. She currently holds voluntary board positions as President of UNAA QLD and Foundations for Tomorrow.