Academic interests and background
Victoria Skeie is a doctoral research fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) researching policy frameworks aimed at combatting forced labour. Her research has a particular emphasis on how the state of Norway has implemented the ILO Convention on Forced Labour (No. 29) domestically and in its supply chains.
Previously, Victoria has worked at the secretariat for the Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). Here she conducted human rights due diligence analysis for the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund with a specialized role on labour exploitation cases. Before that, she was an advisor on business and human rights at the International Department at the NCHR and worked as international consultant for UNDP Oslo Governance Centre.
Victoria’s research interests include a wide array of questions related to business and human rights, especially where it intersects with investors’ role to uphold ESG standards. She has a further interest in human rights and technology; both how new technologies can drive human rights solutions as well as the interlocking challenges technology companies face to comply with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Victoria holds a master’s degree in human rights from the University of Oslo (UiO), and a philosophy degree from the University of St Andrews where she won the Gray Prize (2017) for best undergraduate dissertation in her year. She has been a research assistant at Centre for excellence, PluriCourts – the study of the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals (2018-2020) at the law faculty of UiO.
Courses taught
- HUMR5131 – Human Rights in History, Philosophy and Politics – University of Oslo (uio.no)
- JUS2111 – Statsforfatningsrett, folkerett og menneskerettigheter – Universitetet i Oslo (uio.no)
- JFEXFAC04 – Examen facultatum - rettsvitenskapelig variant – Universitetet i Oslo (uio.no)