Ms. Giovarelli is the Executive Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights. She has more than 13 years of legal experience in the areas of land tenure and property rights. Her areas of specializations are intra-household and gender issues and customary land law. Giovarelli has designed and conducted fieldwork on women and their access and rights to land in the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Russia, India, China, Uganda, Ghana, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. She was the team leader for a year-long study evaluating the impact of World Bank land projects on women in four key geographic regions (represented by Bolivia, Azerbaijan, Laos, and Ghana). Giovarelli has designed interventions to ensure that women are included in the governance and implementation of LTPR projects for USAID, MCC, and the World Bank. Giovarelli has a J.D. from Seattle University, and a master’s of law degree (LL.M.) in international sustainable development from the University of Washington.