Florence Laufer studied human geography at the University of Geneva, with a focus on cultural and migration geography. She has worked at the Swiss Protestant Aid in Lausanne, at the United Nations in New York and at the Cordoba Peace Institute in Geneva. She has led programs in development cooperation, conflict transformation and the integration of cultural and religious diversity. In August 2009, she became the director of Prison Insider, a trilingual platform for the production and dissemination of information on prisons around the world. Since December 2020, she has been vice-president of the Human Rights Platform.