Emmanuelle Marchand is the Deputy Director and the Head of the legal unit for Civitas Maxima a network of lawyers specialized in the investigation of international crimes and legal representation of victims of such crimes.
Since 2013, she has been conducting field investigation on international crimes including conflict related sexual and gender based violence. She provides trainings on different aspects of international investigation for both NGOs and UN. Emmanuelle has been working for more than twelve years as a legal advisor on international criminal cases including at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the African Extraordinary Chambers, and on war crimes cases at national level.
Emmanuelle holds degrees in International Law and international Human Rights law from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas (LLM) and the University of Aix en Provence (LLM) in France.
Professor Kingsley Abbott is an experienced international criminal and human rights lawyer with more than 20 years experience in international non-governmental organisations, the United Nations, academic institutions and domestic legal practice.
He is currently Professor of Practice and Director of the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. Prior to that, he spent over nine years in Thailand where he served the International Commission of Jurists as the Director of Global Accountability and International Justice. During this time, he developed and led numerous human rights and rule of law initiatives in Asia and around the world. He has also worked as a Senior Legal Adviser at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and as Trial Counsel in the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the Hague. He started his career in his home country of Aotearoa New Zealand, where he mainly practised as a criminal barrister under a leading King’s Counsel, appearing in the District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal on numerous matters for both the defence and prosecution.
He was admitted to the New Zealand Bar in 2002 and holds a conjoint degree in law and philosophy from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Lars Burema is an experienced governance professional with over 10 years of experience in promoting participatory and inclusive governance worldwide.
Lars is currently Team Manager and trainer at The Hague Academy for Local Governance. He designs and delivers training programmes on issues around good local governance to national and local governments as well as international organisations. Lars’ work has primarily focused on Eastern Europe, but he also worked in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining The Hague Academy, Lars worked for the European Centre for Minority Issues in Kosovo, where he managed projects on decentralisation and anti-discrimination and conducted research on issues of language rights and inter-ethnic relations.
Lars is a graduate of University College Utrecht and holds a MSc in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London.
Peter Chapman is an experienced attorney and human rights expert working across issues of human rights, technology and social impact.
Peter Chapman is Associate Director with the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) at Georgetown University. With more than 15 years of experience, he has previously worked on human rights, governance, and access to justice with a range of businesses, nonprofits and multilateral organizations, including Twitter’s Safety, Content and Law Enforcement team, the Open Society Justice Initiative, the World Bank, the Carter Center, and Article One.
Peter holds degrees in law and international politics from American University’s Washington College of Law (J.D.) and School of International Service (M.A.). Peter is a member of the Bar of New York and the District of Columbia and a Non-Resident Fellow with New York University’s Center on International Cooperation.
Dr. Giulia Pinzauti is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School.
Giulia has broad experience in public international law, international criminal law and the law and practice of international courts and tribunals. Prior to joining the Grotius Centre, she served as an associate legal officer at the International Court of Justice (2015-2016) and in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (2012-2014) in The Hague. Giulia also previously worked as part of the legal staff for the Pre-Trial Judge and the Appeals Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2011-2012). Formerly, she worked as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Florence (Italy).
Giulia holds a PhD in international law from the European University Institute (2011), as well as a BA and MA from the University of Florence.
Since August 2020, Kounkinè Augustin Somé is a Senior Adviser to the American Bar Association Rule of law Initiative (ABA-ROLI) human rights and access to justice program in Burkina Faso. He is also founder and coordinator of the Ouagadougou-based Citizens’ information and documentation Center (Cidoc).
Augustin has extensive experience in the area of human rights, democratic governance and peace building. He has over 20 years of experience in human rights work in Africa, including 15 years of field work with the United Nations in various senior level roles, where he offered expert advice on capacity development in the area of human rights, rule of law and civic engagement. For example, from 2018 to 2020, he headed the Secretariat of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry for Mali tasked to investigate international crimes and serious human rights violations committed in Mali since 2012. Before joining the United Nations, Augustin has worked with the Parliament of Burkina Faso as Parliamentary Legal Affairs Officer (1999-2002). He also leads training courses on human rights, peace and security with various training centres in Africa, including the Bamako-based peacekeeping training school (EMPABB), the International Peace Support Training Center in Nairobi (Kenya), the Rwanda Peace Academy (RPA), just to mention a few.
Augustin holds a LLB in public Law from the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), a Master in Human rights from the Universities of Nantes and Paris XII (France), an LLM in Human rights and democratization in Africa from Pretoria-American University in Cairo (Egypt). Augustin was awarded the Vera Chirwa Award in 2013. The award was instituted by the University of Pretoria (Center for Human Rights) to recognize alumnus/alumna who best embodied the principles of the Masters’ Programme in his or her subsequent career by “making a difference” to the protection of human rights or the strengthening of democratisation in Africa.
Kate Vigneswaran is the Head of the International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB), an NGO consortium of 13 Belarusian and international human rights organisations that have joined forces to collect, verify, and preserve information and evidence of gross human rights violations allegedly committed by Belarusian authorities.
Kate has more than 18 years of experience as an international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law expert. Prior to the IAPB, she worked as senior consultant and expert for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and UN Office on Drugs and Crime. She also worked in senior positions with numerous human rights NGOs including Global Rights Compliance, the International Commission of Jurists and Fortify Rights. Her responsibilities include documenting and reporting on serious human rights violations and international crimes, working on accountability related issues and building the capacity of justice system actors and civil society. From 2010 to 2016, Kate worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Kate is a qualified lawyer in Australia and holds a Master of Laws from Harvard University (USA) and a Bachelor of Laws from Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
