Dr Melinda Rankin is Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, and Associate Director at KPMG Australia.

Prior to this, she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland; Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Constitutionalism, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB Social Science Centre Berlin); and Lecturer at The University of Sydney.

Melinda is the author of De facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era: With My Own Eyes (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

In 2022, Melinda was the recipient of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung grant for the project titled The Nuremberg Effect; and in 2018, she was the recipient of the Berlin Fellowship Award for the research program Conceptualising De facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era.

Melinda is a Member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), New York; European International Studies Association (EISA); and American Society of International Law (ASIL).