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Speaker Biographies Strengthening Gender Justice through International Prosecutions Speaker biographies 6-7 SEPTEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM THE HAGUE · THE NETHERLANDS Dr Anne Marie Goetz Mr Bob Reid Dr Goetz is Chief Advisor for Peace and Security at UN Mr Reid is the Chief of Operations at Women. She supports programming across UN Women the International Criminal Tribunal on preventing the use of sexual violence as a method of for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). warfare, on supporting women’s engagement in peace He has been working at the ICTY processes, on gender-sensitive security sector reform, and since June 1994 and has held the on inclusive peace-building post-conflict. In the area of positions of Investigations Team good governance she works on building women’s influence Leader, Investigations Commander, over public decision-making. Deputy Chief of Investigations and Deputy Chief of Prosecutions. He was the lead investigator in Prior to taking on this post in the first ICTY trial of Dusko Tadic. 2005, she was a Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Prior to working at the ICTY, Mr Reid was a police officer in Development Studies, University the New South Wales Police Service in Australia. He worked of Sussex. She has published on mainly in Homicide, Organised Crime and Drug Enforcement. the topics of gender and conflict, For a period of three years he was seconded to the Federal pro-poor and gender-sensitive Attorney-General’s Office to work on investigations relating approaches to public sector reforms, to war crimes committed during the Second World War. anti-corruption initiatives, and decentralization, and has also analysed political liberalisation and state-building in fragile states and post-conflict situations. Ms Brenda J. Hollis She is the author of six books on the subjects of gender and politics in developing countries, including Governing Ms Hollis, JD – Doctor of Laws, is the Women: Women in Politics and Governance in Development Prosecutor of the UN-backed Special (2009, Routledge), and Reinventing Accountability: Making Court for Sierra Leone. Since February Democracy Work for Human Development (Palgrave, 2005) 2007, she has led the prosecution (co-authored with Rob Jenkins). Her PhD in Politics is of the former Liberian President from Cambridge University, and her MSc in International Charles Taylor, who is currently Relations is from the London School of Economics. appealing a conviction and 50-year custodial sentence for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Sierra Leone during the country’s armed conflict. Prior to her work with the Special Court, Ms Hollis worked with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Court for the Former Yugoslavia where she served in various capacities, including as lead counsel. She has consulted on many matters related to international law, including Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice Speaker biographies assisting victims’ groups from Columbia and the Democratic Ambassador Christian Wenaweser Republic of the Congo, and providing expertise and training for international courts and tribunals in Indonesia, Iraq and Cambodia. In 1998, she retired from the United States Air Ambassador Wenaweser has served as the Permanent Force with the rank of Colonel. Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations in New York since 2002. From 2009 to 2011, he served as President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the Ms Brigid Inder International Criminal Court (ICC). From 2004 to 2009, he served as Chairman of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression. Ms Inder is the Executive Director of the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women’s human Other previously held functions rights organisation that advocates for gender justice include: Vice-President of the 61st and accountability for gender-based crimes, including session of the UN General Assembly through the ICC and domestic mechanisms, formal peace (2006-2007), Vice-Chair of the negotiations, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation Open-Ended Working Group on processes. In August 2012, the ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Security Council Reform (2004-2005), Bensouda, appointed Ms Inder as her Special Gender Advisor Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee to the Office of the Prosecutor. on the Scope of Legal Protection under the 1994 Convention on the Safety of United Nations Originally from New Zealand, and Associated Personnel (2003-2005), Chairman of the UN Ms Inder has more than 25 years General Assembly’s Third Committee (2002). of experience working in the international justice, human rights Previously, Ambassador Wenaweser worked as Counsellor and health fields as a strategic leader and Deputy Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the and practitioner for women’s human UN and as diplomatic officer in the Office for Foreign Affairs rights and gender equality. in Liechtenstein. Ambassador Wenaweser studied literature, languages, history and philosophy at Zurich University and Ms Inder is globally recognised as an expert on gender diplomacy at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes issues and has been a political adviser and advocate for two Internationales in Geneva. decades at UN negotiations on major policy issues including population and development, the rights of the child, HIV and AIDS, gender equality and women in armed conflict. Ms Inder has worked in the Asia-Pacific region and in Africa most Ms Erin Gallagher notably Bangladesh, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and the Central African Republic. For almost Ms Gallagher has been an investigator with the ICTY since 10 years, Ms Inder has led global accountability initiatives 2006 investigating the Srebrenica genocide. She is currently for gender-based crimes before the ICC and has worked with working on the Prosecutor v. General Ratko Mladic trial. local women’s rights and peace advocates and organisations, transitional justice networks and victim/survivor groups In January 2012, she took leave within the armed conflicts under investigation by the Court. from the ICTY to work on the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on Libya, Ms Inder has written numerous gender-related articles conducting the investigation into and publications, most recently the Gender Report Card on allegations of sexual violence the ICC (2005-2011, Editor and Co-author); Amnesty and committed by Gaddafi’s forces and Accountability in Uganda (Co-author, May 2012); The ICC, rebel forces. She has also conducted Child Soldiers and Gender Justice (Author, November 2011), trainings on Sexual and Gender and Partners for Gender Justice (Author, chapter, forthcoming Based Violence (SGBV) investigations for Rwandan national publication, 2012). investigators and prosecutors in Kigali, for UN Peacekeepers in Egypt, and for the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI). Ms Gallagher is on the roster for Justice Rapid Response (JRR). Prior to her international war crimes work, she served as the Lieutenant of Investigations at the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, investigating cold cases, homicide, 2 sexual assault, and child abuse since 1998. She also assisted Ms Gabrielle McIntyre in establishing a specialised multidisciplinary child assault unit. Her cases have been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC World News Tonight, and Court TV’s Ms McIntyre is the Chef de Cabinet to Judge Theodor ‘New Detectives’. In 2004-2005, Ms Gallagher was awarded Meron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal ‘California Investigator of the Year’ for her work on sexual for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the International violence cases. Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), respectively. Ms McIntyre has been the principal Ms Fatou Bensouda legal and policy adviser to four successive Presidents of the ICTY and has worked closely and collaboratively On 12 December 2011, Ms Fatou Bensouda of The Gambia with the Judges of the ICTY and was elected by consensus Prosecutor of the International ICTR Appeals Chambers for nearly a Criminal Court by the Assembly of States Parties. decade. During her tenure as Chef de Ms Bensouda was sworn-in on 15 June 2012. Cabinet, she has drafted or directly Ms Bensouda had previously been impacted the drafting of almost all major judgements and elected as Deputy Prosecutor decisions of the ICTY and ICTR Appeals Chambers. (Prosecutions) of the International Ms McIntyre has also participated in numerous judicial Criminal Court with an trainings in The Hague, the former Yugoslavia, and Sierra overwhelming majority of votes by Leone and has been instrumental in preparations for the the Assembly of State Parties on launch of the Mechanism, the successor institution to the ICTY. 8 August 2004, and served as such until May 2012. A specialist in international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and human rights law, Ms McIntyre has an Prior to her work at the International Criminal Court, Honours Degree in Law from the University of Adelaide, Ms Bensouda worked as a Legal Adviser and Trial Attorney South Australia, and a Master’s Degree in International Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from the University of Cambridge, England. She is currently in Arusha, Tanzania, rising to the position of Senior Legal pursuing a doctorate at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Advisor and Head of The Legal Advisory Unit. Before joining the ICTR, she was the General Manager of a leading commercial bank in The Gambia. Between 1987 and Ms Gloria Atiba-Davies 2000, she was successively Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Solicitor General and Legal Secretary of the Republic, then Ms Atiba-Davies studied at the University of London and Attorney General and Minister of Justice, in which capacity graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LLB Hons) degree. She she served as Chief Legal Advisor to the President and Cabinet then pursued the professional course at the Council of Legal of The Republic of The Gambia.
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