Feature Team Members

Julia Constanze Braunmiller is a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist with the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law project. She assists with team supervision and leads efforts to disseminate Women, Business and the Law data and devise strategies to inform World Bank operations on legal and policy reform for women’s economic empowerment. Her expertise is in comparative family law, women’s entrepreneurship, access to finance, the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities, and the rights of women with disabilities. Before joining the team in 2015, she taught international human rights law at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and directed programs on combating human trafficking and pioneering clinical legal education throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Julia holds an M.A. in International Relations from SAIS and a law degree from Germany (Diplom-Juristin). She speaks German, Italian, French, and Dutch.