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Co-Founder, Women's Advocacy Network Uganda

Partner, Awodi & Co.

Executive Director, World Justice Project

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Board Member, CIVICUS Alliance

President, Rio Negro Federation of Indigenous Organizations (Foirn)

Director-General, International Development Law Organization (IDLO)

Executive Director of the World Food Program

Deputy Director, Public Governance Directorate, OECD

Chief Executive Officer, Praxis Conflict Centre

General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

Secretary-General, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)

Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Human Rights, Microsoft Corporation

Secretary-General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe

Chief Editor, India Justice Report and Senior Advisor, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

Minister of Justice of Uzbekistan

Artist

Head of the Economic Analysis Sector of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy in the European Commission

Director, Equal Rights Trust

Director of Rule of Law Projects, Mexico, World Justice Project

Filmmaker and Senior Researcher

Co- founder & Board Chair, World Justice Project

Founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation

President and Director-Counsel Emeritus, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Director for International Affairs at the City of The Hague (international city of peace and justice)

Secretary General, CIVICUS

Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency

Director, Planning and Organizational Performance, Judiciary of Kenya

Director, Information Society - Action against Crime, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe

Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya

United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Board of Directors, World Justice Project

Executive Director, Samburu Women Trust

Minister of Justice of Niger

CEO, The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)

Columnist and Editorial Consultant, Rappler

Co-founder & CEO, World Justice Project

Director, Legal Empowerment Fund

Senior Technical Advisor to the Governance and Security Programme

Socio-Environmental Policy Liaison, Instituto Socioambiental

Under Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of UNDP

Chair of The Elders

International Forensic Investigations Consultant

Advocate for Arts and Justice

Composer

Professor, Arizona State University and Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Founder and Director, Afghanistan National Institute of Music

Former President, American Bar Association / Board of Directors, World Justice Project

President and Vice Chair, Microsoft

Executive Director, International Legal Foundation

Director of Stability and Humanitarian Aid, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Executive Director of the Tech for Good Institute and Senior Fellow, Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore

Attorney-General and Minister Of Justice Of The Republic Of Sierra Leone

Chair, European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

High Court Judge, Judiciary of Kenya

Human Rights and Responsible Supply Chain Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Working Session Speakers

Team Leader, Governance, Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

CEO of the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers, FIDA Uganda

Founder- Iverify.ng

Citizen’s Participation Committee of the State Anticorruption System of Quintana Roo, Mexico

Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Department, Federal Ministry of Justice, Somalia

President of the High Court of Niamey

Legal and Anti-Corruption Officer for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

Managing Partner and founder of FOUNT

Minority/Disability Intersectional Discrimination Project Officer

International Consultant and Civil Society Activist

Magistrate, former Prosecutor at Bamako’s Economic and Financial-Special Court

Leader of the Civic Space Cluster with CIVICUS Monitor

Network Manager, NAMATI

Co-Founder, Seven Pillars Law

Volunteer Mediator, Community Mediation Board Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka, specializing in financial disputes

Youth Law Center, Senior Staff Attorney

Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of Oxford, Chevening Scholar

Founder/CEO, GEC Risk Advisory

Director of Research and Learning, IDLO

LGBTIQ+ Asylum project coordinator at Mawjoudin (We exist)

President of the Law Society of England and Wales

Senior Manager, Governance & Peace United Nations Global Compact

Access to Justice Specialist at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)

International lawyer and policy advisor

Senior Program Officer American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Research Initiative

Human Rights Officer, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR)

Senior Attorney/Justice for All Coordinator Alaska Legal Services Corporation

Latin America Policy Director at the Vance Center for International Justice- NYC Bar

Justice at the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador

Director of Research at IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

President of the Paris Bar

Head of the National Human Rights Institution of Costa Rica

Journalist and Editor of JusticeInfo.net

ESG Coordinator & Program Officer, Center for International Private Enterprise

Executive Director, Transforming Communities for Inclusion (TCI)

Executive Director, Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures, University of Strathclyde

Head of the Global Programme on Measuring Corruption, International Anti-Corruption Academy

Executive Director Institute for African Women in Law

Assistant Professor Cybersecurity Governance at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University / Principal Investigator of the Cyber Security by Integrated Design (C-SIDe)

Retired partner at Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA

Program Lead, Justice for All, Pathfinders, NYU-CIC

Justice Specialist, Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights Team, Crisis Bureau, UNDP

Justice Innovation Advisor, The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law

Director, Amsterdam Law Hub; Co-founder, SEMA

Senior Program Specialist International Development Research Centre, Canada

Senior Research Fellow, ODI

Co-Founder and Board Member, Themis – Gênero, Justiça, Direitos Humanos

Horizontal accountability specialist at Transparency International-Secretariat

Programme Officer at FIDA Uganda (Uganda Association of Women Lawyers)

Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Professorial Fellow; (Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University)

Program Expert and Head of Lebanon and Yemen Programs, International Center for Transitional Justice

Director at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Associate General Counsel, Compute Global Business Group - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Scientific Director, Government Transparency Indicators Assistant Professor, CEU

Coordinator of the Global Initiative on Justice with Children and Advocacy and Global Learning Senior Advisor for Terre des Hommes Foundation

Deputy Registrar of the International Court of Justice

Executive Director of Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women (ESE) in the Republic of North Macedonia

Co-founder and COO at Civitas Digital

Director at the Central Bureau of Statistics

Senior Program Advisor –Center on International Cooperation– New York University (NYU/CIC) / Senior Advisor of Pathfinders

General secretary Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries (COMJIB)

Social Participation Committee of the State Anticorruption System of Jalisco

Programme Director at HiiL

Co-Chair of the International Coordinating Committee for the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) Campaign and Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission

Director, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Director of the Justice and Rule of Law Unit, Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Publicas (FIIAPP)

Chair, National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal (NIDWAN) / General Secretary for Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network (IPWDGN), faculty member, Padma Kanya College in Kathmandu / Council member, Minority Rights Group (MRG)

Director & Associate General Counsel, Corporate, Restructurings and M&A, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Partner at Simon-Kucher & Partners

Legal Adviser, International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC)

Access to Justice Expert, Cordaid

Member and rapporteur for human rights defenders and justice operators of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Former Under-Secretary of Strategic Management and Institutional Quality, Buenos Aires City Government

Research Officer, Open Government Partnership

Research, Advocacy & Participation Advisor, Terre des hommes Foundation

Senior Research Associate, World Justice Project

Director, Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, City of Atlanta

OHCHR Senior Fellow Alumnus and Member of the World Uyghur Congress

Founder of Youth Against Corruption (YAC)

Member of the Netherlands Court of Audit’s Board

Director for International Affairs at the City of The Hague (international city of peace and justice)

Chairperson of The National Commission for Human Rights in Pakistan

Lecturer at University of Maryland and Director of the Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability

Deputy Head of Governance Division Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Berlin, Germany

Executive Director, International Association of Women Judges

Senior Policy Analyst at the OECD Public Governance Directorate

Journalist Executive Director for Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) Chairs of the Africa Check Foundation board in Kenya

Chairperson of the Commission on Administrative Justice (Kenyan Ombudsman)

Senior Director at IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Advisory Group member at Judicial Integrity Network ASEAN

Senior Partnership Manager at the International Civil Society Centre

Founding Partner, Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

Coordinator, Justice Sector Coordination Office, Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Republic of Sierra Leone

Volunteer Mediator & Vice Chairman, Community Mediation Board, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

E-Justice & Digital Transformation, Justice Law & Order Sector, Republic of Uganda

Mediation Training Officer, Mediation Boards Commission, Ministry of Justice, Sri Lanka

Project Specialist, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub

Associate Professor, Zayed University

Young Justice Leader

Policy advisor international affairs

Magistrate of the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Tribunal of Bogotá. President of the Association of Judges and Magistrates of Colombia (CORJUSTICIA)

Executive Director at SALIGAN, Philippines

Civic Space Research Officer for the Americas for the CIVICUS Monitor

Human Rights Lead and Advocacy Strategist, The B Team

Vice-Dean of Leiden Law School, Professor of Children’s Rights at Leiden University

Young Justice Leader

Co-Founder, Women Beyond Walls and AdvocAid Adviser, Pathfinders

Co-Founder, Agami

Secretary General, Asociación Inter-americana de Defensorías Publicas (AIDEF)

Chief Sustainability Office, General Electric

Deputy Director General for Equal Treatment and Ethno-Racial Diversity, Ministry of Equality, Spain

Former Attorney-General and Minister for Legal Affairs, The Bahamas

Access to Justice Strategist, CALIBRATE Judicial Integrity Consultant, UNDP

Access to Justice Strategist, CALIBRATE Judicial Integrity Consultant, UNDP

Executive Vice President & General Counsel, LexisNexis Legal & Professional and President, LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation

Senior Justice Advisor, UNDP Crisis Bureau

Tunisia Advocacy and Legal Support Officer

Senior Program Officer, Justice for All, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Programme Manager, UNDP Global Programme for Rule of Law and Human Rights

Head of Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College in DC and Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy

Consultant at HelpAge International

Head of Risk and Public Policy at the Executive Secretariat of the National Anticorruption System

Executive Director, Kituo cha Sheria- Legal Advice Centre

Member of the Executive Committee and Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance of Novartis

Judge of the Court of Appeal of Kenya

Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin, Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS)

Project Catalyst (Project Lead, HiiL Scaling Program)

National Convener of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA)

Civic Space Research Officer for Europe & Central Asia for the CIVICUS Monitor

Senior Advisor, The Carter Center

Executive Director, National Whistleblower Center

Executive Director of the Chandler Institute of Governance

Mediation Training Officer, Mediation Boards Commission, Ministry of Justice, Sri Lanka

Justice Program Manager, UNDP

Civil Rights Advocate and Director, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Abeokuta Ogun State, Government of Nigeria

Co-founder, DIYLaw

Consultant UN Women- Rule of Law/Access to Justice Executive Secretary, Malawi Human Rights Commission

Magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of the State of Guerrero, Mexico, member of the Mexican Association of Women Judges and Magistrates, the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) and the Mexican Chapter of the IAWJ

UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) Senior Intersectionality Fellow

Member of Parliament, National Assembly and Nairobi County Nairobi Woman Representative

Chief Research Officer, World Justice Project

Program Officer at KOSHISH Nepal

Head of the Office of Civil & Criminal Justice Reform, the Commonwealth Secretariat

Senior Specialist, The World Bank

Shareholder Butzel Long, Ann Arbor, MI

Researcher, Transparency International – Brazil

Vice-Coordinator, Asociación Inter-americana de Defensorías Publicas (AIDEF)

Senior Fellow and Advisor, Center on International Cooperation– New York University (NYU/CIC) / Pathfinders

President and Associate Secretary of Surjodoy Child Forum

Judge of the Ninth Criminal Trial Court of Guatemala City. Vice President of the Guatemalan Association of Judges for Integrity (AGJI)

Head of Family Protection Prosecution Services

Inequality & Exclusion Program Lead, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Head of Programmes for Inclusive Governance at VSO Nepal

Head of Equality Department, Office of Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia

Senior Policy Advisor for Health for Asia and the Middle East, Swedish International Development Corporation Agency (SIDA)

Head of International Affairs, Dutch Ombudsman

Senior Adviser, Anti-Corruption, UNODC

Director, General Secretariat of INTOSAI (International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions)

Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation

Co-Chair, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, Rule of Law Working Group

Senior Director for Local to Global Advocacy and Impact at World Vision International

Team Leader, Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights, Crisis Bureau, UNDP

Senior Associate at Dentons Muñoz Costa Rica in San José

Research Specialist, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)

Founder of YAPESDI (Yayasan Peduli Sindroma Down Indonesia, or Down Syndrome Care Foundation Indonesia)

Director of Social Investment of the Chandler Foundation

Member, Latin American Network of Subnational Governments of Management for Results of the IDB

Executive Director, Transparency International Netherlands

Director of the Belgian Section of Defense for Children International and Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

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Senior UN OHCHR Fellow Alumna and human rights lawyer

Youth advocate

Senior Policy Advisor, Sustainable Development, United Nations Association of the National Capital Area

Baker McKenzie, Partner and Executive Director of Pro Bono

Deputy Director International Affairs at VNO-NCW and MKB-Nederland

Assistant Director and Head of ISSAT DCAF – Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance

Member, Black Lives Matter UK

Programme Officer- Transparency and Access to Information, ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa

Sustainability Director at NIBC Bank

Senior U.S. District Court Judge and Chair of Integrity Initiatives International

Executive Director, Whistleblowing International

Junior Policy Analyst, Public Sector Integrity, OECD/OCDE

Programme Manager, Business, Civic Freedoms & Human Rights Defenders and Researcher, Natural Resources

World Justice Challenge Judges

Board Member, CIVICUS Alliance

Director-General, International Development Law Organization (IDLO)

General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

Vice President of the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid, and Co-Chair of the Inter-American Dialogue

Member of The Elders

Editor-in-Chief, CityPress, South Africa / Board of Directors, World Justice Project

United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Board of Directors, World Justice Project

Former Minister for International Development Cooperation, Government of The Netherlands

Former President, American Bar Association / Board of Directors, World Justice Project

Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

World Justice Challenge Finalists

Executive Director, Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo (FCD) Ecuador

Assistant Coordinator, Racist Violence Recording Network

Project Coordinator, IDEALS, Inc.

Founder, Red Dot Foundation (India) President, Red Dot Foundation Global (USA)

Program Director, Rights Jessore

Co-Founder and CFO, EcoCiclo

Founder and Managing Director, Speak Up

Attorney, Kosovo Legal Services Company

Director of Programs - Oman and Kuwait, Do Bold

Founder and Director, Transparency Information Technology Initiative (TransparencIT)

Executive Director, Samuel Ioron Foundation

Executive Director, Public Defender Society of Nepal (PDS-Nepal)

Head of the Legal Program,Youth LGBT Organization Deystvie

Chief Operating Officer, SE Prozorro.Sale

Director, Appui pour la Protection de l'Environnement et le Développement (APED) Partnering to Ensure Their Rights

Project Coordinator, IDEALS, Inc.

Country Director, Help a Child Burundi

Founder and Executive Director, POS Foundation

Director of Civic Engagement, Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

Founder, reAcción Paraguay

Director of Alliances for Advocacy, Reforestamos Mexico

Magistrate in the First Civil and Family Chamber, Poder Judicial del Estado de Hidalgo

Co-Founder and Executive Director, InReach (formerly Asylum Connect)

Founder, DC Justice Lab

Operating Officer, Public Foundation "New Media"

Coordinator of Political Integrity, Center for Anti-corruption Researches and Initiatives, Transparency International - Russia

Managing Partner, Datanomix.pro

Country Director, Cambodia Bridges to Justice

Co-CEO, Impact and Learning Strategic Oversight Lead, Shonaquip Social Enterprise (SSE)

Managing Director, Precision Solutions Group (PSG)