Danielle Johnson is a Research Scientist (Russian Specialist) for CNA Corporation. She has extensive experience in the human rights field, particularly in transitional justice and human trafficking, and has worked for Polaris, Human Rights Watch (Moscow) and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at the US House of Representatives. She holds a D.Phil in Politics from Oxford University, and has been a scholar in residence at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and at IERES at George Washington University.