Mario Guido joined IDC as Europe Programme Officer in 2022. Prior to that, he was working at the Global Detention Project as a Project Coordinator for the Global Immigration Detention Observatory project, helping oversee collaborative work between the GDP and external partner organisations on developing detention data in key geographic regions to raise awareness of human rights concerns. He has also worked in other non-governmental organisations such as Children and Families Across Borders and the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre.
Mario holds an LLB Law with Legal Studies in Europe from the University of Reading, a Master of Laws (LLM) from University College London (UCL) and is currently undertaking a PhD in law at UCL, conducting a comparative study on the involvement of private entities in the provision of work opportunities for prisoners, seen through the lens of the Forced Labour Convention of the International Labour Organisation. He is based in the United Kingdom.