Principles on National Security and the RTI Participants

Sandra Africa

Sandra (Sandy) Africa is an associate in Political at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and the head of the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs (ISPA) at the University. She is also the vice- chairperson of the African Security Sector Network, a pan-African forum of scholars, policy advocates and security practitioners who have a common interest in promoting security sector reform in Africa. Sandy regularly facilitates training programmes in governance for stakeholders in the South African, Southern African and African security sectors. She is the author of Well-kept secrets: The right of access to information and the South African intelligence services published by the Institute for Global Dialogue and the FES in 2009. She was recently appointed as a fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

Sayeed Ahmad

Sayeed Ahmad is the country program manager at Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok based regional Human Rights organization with 47 member organizations from 16 Asian countries. Sayeed looks after the organization’s human rights advocacy activities for those Asian countries, especially in the area of Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association. Sayeed is a lawyer, who worked in Bangladesh for many years with national human rights organizations as well as the National Human Right commission (NHRC).

Camila Asano Camila Asano is the coordinator of the Foreign Policy and Human Rights Project at Conectas Human Rights. She has been working for eight years at the institution, initially focusing on research areas and now on international affairs.

In her work at Conectas, she performs advocacy initiatives coupled with knowledge-based activities. She also participates as a lecturer in courses and seminars in various countries. Camila has published various articles on foreign policy and human rights. She has also been a professor of International Relations at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) in Sao Paulo since 2010, where she teaches, among others, the subject of human rights.

Afia Asare Kyei Afia Asare Kyei is program manager for the , justice, and human rights program at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). Afia, a dual Ghanaian and South African citizen, has a varied background in development programs, ranging from working with communities in conflict situations, training civil society groups and communities on general human rights and on the special discourse of transitional justice, working with governments and organizations on justice sector reform and access to justice, HIV/AIDS etc. Prior to joining OSIWA, Afia worked for Save the Children-UK, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the JHUCCP/USAID in different capacities. She is a graduate of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Mohamed Babiker Mohamed Babiker is assistant professor of international law for the University of Khartoum. He is also the deputy dean and head of international and comparative law department in the Faculty of Law. His field of expertise and research interest is international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Mohamed has worked as legal advisor and human rights officer with several UN and AU peacekeeping operations in , and as a consultant with a number of international NGOs focusing on Darfur.

Catalina Botero Marino Catalina Botero Marino is currently the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and was elected to this position in July 2008 by the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights elected Colombian attorney Prior to this position, Catalina worked as Acting Magistrate and Auxiliary Magistrate in the Constitutional Court of Colombia for 8 years. Previously she has held a number of human rights posts, including adviser for the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation. She is the author of several books and essays published in different countries on freedom of expression, constitutional law, international criminal law and transitional justice.

Ben Buckland Ben Buckland is a researcher on security sector governance with DCAF in Geneva and a Senior Associate with the Ethicos Group. His areas of expertise include: ombuds institutions and other independent oversight mechanisms, access to information, whistleblower protection, and anti- corruption. Prior to joining DCAF, Ben worked as a consultant on counter-corruption with a range of international organizations and as a researcher with the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Tanti Budi Suryani Tanti Budi Suryani is the program officer for Freedom of Information Initiatives at the Tifa Foundation in Indonesia. She is a member of Freedom of Information Advocates Network. In collaboration with Open Society Foundations, IDSPS, and Forum-Asia, she organized Asia CSOs Consultation on National Security and Right to Information that involved CSOs from 15 countries and attended by Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression unofficially in November 2011.

Sandra Coliver Sandra (Sandy) Coliver works with the Open Society Justice Initiative as the senior legal officer for freedom of information and expression. Previously, she served as the director of the Center for Justice and Accountability, a San Francisco–based organization that works to deter torture and other severe human rights abuses by helping survivors hold persecutors legally accountable. For more than two decades, she has managed or participated in human rights and rule of law programs in Mongolia, Morocco, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, , Russia, and parts of Europe, including three years during which she was based in Bosnia. Sandy received her law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Yale.

Leopoldo de Amaral

Leopoldo de Amaral is a Mozambican human rights lawyer, employed by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) from 2006 as assistant programme manager for the Human Rights and Democracy Building. Prior to his work at OSISA he taught international public law and human rights in . He holds a Master’s degree on Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa.

Mukelani Dimba Mukelani Dimba is the deputy executive director of the Open Democracy Advice Center (ODAC), a South African law center that specializes on freedom of information and whistleblower protection . Mukelani has work experience on accountability and transparency issues in South Africa, Mozambique, , , , , , the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and . This work includes advising civil society formations on campaigning for, and application of, Right-to-information laws, advising foreign legislators on drafting these laws, advising governments on implementation strategies and doing research on behalf of development agencies.

Gwinyayi Dzinesa Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa joined the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in November 2011 as a senior researcher in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis (CPRA) Division in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to assuming his post at ISS, Gwinyayi served as: an independent consultant; senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town; lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Africa’s International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; visiting scholar at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and as a research and publications officer at the Centre for Defence Studies at the University of . He is co-editor of Region Building in Southern Africa: Progress, Problems and Prospects and Peacebuilding, Power and Politics in Africa and has researched and published widely on peace and security issues and participates in media interviews and debates.

Baltazar Fael Baltazar Fael is a jurist presently working at the Center of Public Integrity in Mozambique. He works as program coordinator in the areas of good governance and anti-corruption. In 2003 he worked as provincial prosecutor in Maputo City, and again in the central province of Zambezia.

Antonio de Costa Gaspar

António da Costa Gaspar is director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CEEI) at High Institute for International Relations (ISRI), based in Maputo, Mozambique. He is also lecturer and researcher focusing on conflict and peace, and security matters, as well as on civil- military relations, development and democracy.

Morton Halperin Morton (Mort) H. Halperin is a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations. He has a distinguished career in the U.S. federal government, having served in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations. In the Clinton administration, Mort was director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State (1998-2001), special assistant to the president and senior director for democracy at the National Security Council (1994-1996), and consultant to the secretary of defense and the under secretary of defense for policy (1993). He was nominated by the president for the position of assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping. In the Johnson administration, Mort worked in the Department of Defense where he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense (International Security Affairs), responsible for political-military planning and arms control (1966-1969).

Maxwell Kadiri Maxwell Kadiri is associate legal officer on the Africa regional work of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Based in the Abuja office, Maxwell is a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of . He has considerable experience, while working for NGOs and private law firms, litigating free expression and media issues, including undertaking public interest litigation, reforming Nigerian media laws, strengthening the freedom of the press, and generally ensuring the establishment of a culture of transparency and accountability in government through allowing for public access to government held information. In the past, Maxwell worked as the Nigerian Country Advocate for the Global Internet Policy Initiative where he participated in the drafting of the new National Information Technology Bill, the freedom of information bill in Nigeria.

Emmanuel Kam-Yogo Emmanuel Kam-Yogo is senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, at the in . He is also associate senior lecturer at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC), University of Yaoundé II, where he on international law. He received his PhD in law from the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, and his Master’s in public law from the University of Yaoundé.

Eric Kiraithe Eric Kiraithe holds the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, and appointed as the new Assistant Inspector General of Police in line with Kenya's 2010 Constitution. His three postings in the police service include chief security services division- Central Bank of Kenya, staff officer of operations at Police Headquarters, and responsible for public and human rights (national police spokesman). He is currently deployed as the general manager of security and safety operations at the Kenya Airports Authority. Previously he worked with the United Nations Mission in as a senior civilian police adviser.

Sani Kukakeshu Usman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman is a serving military officer in the Nigerian Army. Presently he is the deputy director, Army Public Relations 1 Division Nigerian Army. A well experienced and highly trained Army Officer, he has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications from , Nigeria and a Master’s Degree in Media, Peace and Conflicts Studies from the United Nations Mandated University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica. His specialty includes media relations, public relations, conflict resolutions, and freedom of information, as well as civil-military relations.

Rafael Frank La Rue Levy Rafael Frank La Rue Lewy was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection for the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression by the UN Human Rights Council in 2008. At present he is the President of the Board of Directors of the DEMOS Institute, an NGO that works on the promotion of democratic values and provides support to the participation of youth, women and indigenous peoples in Guatemala. He has a wide experience in Human Rights, Democratic Development, Social , , Latin American Analysis and political issues As a Human Rights Activist, he was nominated to the Peace Nobel Prize on 2003 for this work in the Genocide case in Guatemala.

Irvin León Ubaldo Irvin León Ubaldo is the declassification policy director in the General Directorate of Regulatory Analysis and Evaluation of Information in the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection. He holds a law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He has held several positions in the public administration such as advisor to the deputy attorney on criminal matters and trials of coordinated income of Mexico City’s Government (2005-2007). He also served on the staff of former president commissioner Jacqueline Peschard’s office at the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (2007-2009). Irvin has given several national conferences, courses and training on the right of access to information, particularly in regard to the classification of information.

Emi MacLean Emi MacLean is a legal officer for freedom of information and expression with the Open Society Justice Initiative. Her work focuses on freedom of information and expression internationally. Emi worked previously as a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights on issues related to Guantánamo and other forms of executive detention, including through litigation, legislative reform, and international advocacy. She also worked for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors without Borders) as the deputy head of mission for MSF’s HIV/AIDS care and treatment project in South Africa, and later as the U.S. director of the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential .

Kate Martin Kate Martin has served as director of the Center for National Security Studies since 1992, working to protect civil liberties and human rights. She has taught National Security Law as a professorial lecturer at George Washington University Law School and Strategic Intelligence and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law School. She also served as general counsel to the National Security Archive, a research library at George Washington University from 1995 to 2001. She was co-director of a project on “Security Services in a Constitutional Democracy” in 12 former communist countries in the 1990’s. She graduated from the University of Virginia Law School and from Pomona College.

Toby Mendel Toby Mendel is the executive director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, a Canadian-based international human rights NGO that provides legal and capacity building expertise regarding foundational rights for democracy, including the right to information, freedom of expression, the right to participate and the rights to assembly and association. Prior to that he was for 12 years senior director for Law at ARTICLE 19, a human rights NGO focusing on freedom of expression and the right to information. He has provided peak level expertise on these rights to a wide range of actors including the World Bank, UN and other intergovernmental bodies, and numerous governments and NGOs in countries all over the world. He has published extensively on a range of freedom of expression, right to information, communication rights and refugee issues, including comparative legal and analytical studies on public service broadcasting, right to information and broadcast policy.

Dumisani Moyo Dumisani Moyo is programme manager for the Media and ICTs program at the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. He was Senior Lecturer and head of Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand before joining OSISA in 2010. Prior to that, he worked as Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and Assistant Lecturer at University of Oslo. Dumisani holds a doctorate in Media Studies from the University of Oslo.

Glen Mpani Glen Mpani is a program officer with the Open Society Foundations’ Africa program. Prior to joining he was the Program Director Human Rights and Governance at the Open Society Foundation South Africa (OSF-SA). Glen previously worked as a Regional Coordinator for the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN), a transitional justice research network, and as Program Officer for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Southern Africa. Glen holds a Masters in Democratic Governance from the University of Cape Town.

Richard Mugisha Richard Mugisha is program officer and Uganda country manager for Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. He has 18 years experience working with civil society, refugee, and women's rights organizations in Uganda and the United Kingdom. Before coming to OSIEA, Richard served as program director with the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), a women's leadership development organization working to promote women’s participation in governance at all levels in Uganda. In the United Kingdom, Richard worked extensively with refugee resettlement and integration programs. He has been published on a wide array of issues including governance, culture, and social justice. Richard holds an MA degree in Development Studies from Uganda Martyrs University (UMU), a BA in modern languages from the University of Westminster and in Russian language from Kishinev State University.

Fidele Musangu Wa Ntumba

Fidele Musangu Wa Ntumba is director of the Congolese Media Observatory (OMEC). He has worked as a journalist for nearly 30 years, currently serving as editing coordinator for the daily newspaper Phare. He is a human rights activist focusing on freedom of press and has served as commissioner for the National Union of the Press in the Congo since 2008.

Venkat Nayak Venkatesh Nayak is a programme coordinator at the Access to Information Programme at Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international, non-governmental organisation working for the practical realisation of people's human rights across the countries of the Commonwealth. Venkatesh advocates for the adoption of information access laws in all Commonwealth countries and has been closely involved with the formulation of such laws in India, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Malta. He has provided technical advice on the formulation of access legislation in Fiji, , , Tanzania and Kenya. Venkatesh trains RTI practitioners in government and civil society in India and other Commonwealth countries. He is a co-convener of National Campaign for People's Right to Information in India and a participant in the recently established international network for whistleblowing.

Anne Nderi Anne Nderi is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She holds an LLB degree from the and a post graduate diploma from the Kenya School of Law. Anne is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Kenya and a member of the Law Society of Kenya. Anne has lent support to various legislative advocacy campaigns as the campaign for the electoral reforms in Kenya, constitutional reforms, and is currently involved in the clamor for a legislative framework on access to information in Kenya. She is currently a senior program manager at the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ-Kenya). She has extensive experience in legal work and project , and a keen interest in Human Rights, Democracy and good governance.

Gareth Newham Gareth Newham is the Head of the Governance, Crime and Justice Division at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) which he joined in January 2010. He is responsible for managing a team of people that undertake research and analysis on crime, its prevention and the functioning of the criminal justice system in South Africa for the purposes of improving policy development and public awareness. Between 2006 and 2009 he was the Policy Advisor and Special Projects Manager for the Gauteng Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Community Safety Firoz Cachalia. He conceptualised the Gauteng Information on Police Performance System (GIPPS), which won a Premier Service Excellence Award in 2009. He has published both locally and internationally on issues related to his areas of work.

Dan Ngabirano Dan Ngabirano holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB) from Makerere University Ka and Master of Laws Degree (LLM) from Harvard Law School. Presently, he is Managing Partner at Development Law Associates. He also teaches at the School of Law, Makerere University Kampala. Previously Dan worked on ATI projects with HURINET-U and AFIC. He has since commented on and reviewed several Ugandan laws that impact on ATI at selected ATI Conferences and in the media. Most recently Dan worked on a paper evaluating the Ugandan ATI campaign as well as a Uganda scoping paper on National Security and ATI for the OSIEA. Dan is also a member of the FOI Committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL).

Carolyn O’Neil Carolyn O’Neil is a program coordinator for the Open Society Justice Initiative based in New York. She serves on both the international justice and freedom of information and expression teams. Prior to joining the Justice Initiative, she worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights as assistant to the legal director. There she supported legal advocacy work on racial and economic justice, national security, and international human rights. She also gained experience expanding access to quality education in Latin America through the nonprofit Magis Americas, and spent two years teaching English in rural Japan. Carolyn received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College, and spent a year at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris on the international program.

Jean Baptiste Otshudi Jean Baptiste Otshudi Disashi Kalonda is the president of AMICUS, an alumnae group of participants in the International Visitors Leadership Program sponsored by the US government. Through his work with AMICUS he helped create Collectif 24, a network of nonprofits working to promote the right to access information in the Congo. Currently a practicing attorney, he has held several positions in government administration, including as research officer for the cabinet of the Prime Minister of the DRC, for the government Secretary-General, in the Ministry of Public Enterprises, for the cabinet of the Vice-Prime Minister in charge of reconstruction, and more. He received his Bachelor’s of Law from the University of Kinshasa in 1995.

Matt Pollard

Matt Pollard is a senior legal adviser at the international secretariat of Amnesty International in London, where he has worked since 2007 on, among other, human rights aspects of terrorism, counter-terrorism, armed conflict and criminal justice. He was previously a legal adviser to the Association for Prevention of Torture in Geneva. His published scholarly work includes co-authoring the third edition of Sir Nigel Rodley’s The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (Oxford University Press, 2009) and a number of articles on torture and enforced disappearance. His recently-completed PhD at the University of Essex concerned prisoners’ rights of contact with the outside world. Marr is also a barrister and solicitor of the Law Society of British Columbia, Canada.

Nevena Ruzic Nevena Ruzic is the secretary general assistant at the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection. Her work is both in the field of freedom of information and personal data protection, namely it covers compliance of regulation with constitutional and international provisions and standards pertaining to these rights. She is also responsible for cooperation with international and civil society organisations in Serbia as well as for international cooperation. Before working with the Commissioner (starting in 2009), Ruzic was the Freedom of the Media Coordinator at the OSCE Mission to Serbia (from 2004) and legal consultant at a national NGO – YUCOM (from 2001). Her field of work has predominantly been in the field of information offline and online – freedom of expression and information, personal data, classified data, internet data and regulation. In 2012 she was elected a member of the Bureau to the Consultative Committee of the Council of Europe Convention 108.

Ahmed Sayaad

Ahmed Yusuf Sayaad works at the University of Pretoria as a project coordinator for the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law. He previously worked as a consultant in the university’s Client Service Centre, before being recruited by CHR. Ahmad is a trained lawyer from , and next year he will start pursuing his master’s degree in law in order to begin practicing again.

Tiawan Saye Gongloe Tiawan Saye Gongloe is a counselor-at-law with nearly twenty five years of courtroom practice, scholarly work and government service covering the positions of executive assistant to the President of the Interim Government of National Unity, under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as solicitor general of for four years and minister of labor for over a year. He is better known in Liberia, not for his government service, but as a human rights lawyer, because a large portion of his time as a lawyer has been devoted to representing the poor, journalists, human rights advocates and others persecuted by government. For his role as human rights defender, he was honored by in 2003 In that same year he received the Bayard Rustin Freedom Award, the highest distinction, by the A. Philip Randolph Institute in Atlanta Georgia. He has also received wide-range of recognition by civil society groups, the print and electronic media in Liberia. In 2004 to 2005, he was a W.E. Dubois Fellow at the W. E. B. Dubois Institute of Africa and African American Institute at Harvard University and a Human Rights Policy Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School, also at Harvard University in Cambridge MA.

Günter Schirmer Günter Schirmer is the deputy head of Secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, since 2003. He joined the Council of Europe in 1993 (Secretariat of the Council of Europe Development Bank). Previously, he worked as a civil servant at the German Federal Ministry of Finance, as a judge at the Landgericht in Bonn, and as a lecturer in law at the Universities of London (King’s College) and Passau, and studied at the Universities of Passau (doctorate in law) and Aix-en-Provence (maîtrise en droit). In 2010, he was shortlisted by Germany for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Ian Seiderman Ian Seiderman is the legal and policy director of the Geneva based International Commission of Jurists, and has served with the organization from 2000-2005 and from 2008 to present. He served as senior legal adviser for Amnesty International from 2005-2008. He has advised both organizations on a broad range of legal and policy questions in the areas of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. From 1994-1997, he was the legal adviser for the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Sir Nigel Rodley. Previously, he was a researcher for the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and a staff attorney with the US-based Central American Refugee Center.

Gilbert Sendugwa Gilbert Sendugwa works as coordinator and head of Secretariat for the Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), a pan-African organization promoting the right of access to information in Africa. Since his joining in February 2010, the Centre's membership has grown from 13 civil society organisations to 28 CSOs from 18 African countries. It has become an RTI resource centre for members and partners from Africa and beyond. In April 2012, AFIC obtained Observer status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Gilbert has contributed to the development, understanding and usage of the right to information in Africa through his work with civil society groups, national governments and regional bodies. He is involved in promoting Open Government in Africa, Open Government standards, right to information among other initiatives. His interest on RTI was shaped by his interface with challenges of lack of access to information in the sectors of health, education environment management, human and child rights.

Lola Shyllon Lola Shyllon is programme manager for Freedom of Expression and Access to Information at the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria.

Hennie Van Vuuren Hennie van Vuuren is a fellow at the Open Society Foundation for South Africa office in Cape Town. He also works within the OSF Money and Politics Programme (MAPP). He was previously director of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Cape Town office and worked on governance and corruption issues at the ISS from 2002-2012. He works closely with civil society networks, including the Right2Know Campaign and has a research interest in the nexus between elite networks and corruption. Before joining the ISS he worked as a programme officer at the Transparency International (TI) Berlin secretariat from 1999-2001. He holds a Master’s degree in Political from the Free University (Berlin) and a post- graduate degree in African Political Studies from the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg).

Frans Viljoen Frans Viljoen is the director of the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria. He is also a professor of international human rights law.

Aidan Wills Aidan Wills is a project coordinator in DCAF’s Research Division, where he has worked on security sector governance (SSG) for six years. His current research focuses on the human rights and accountability implications of international intelligence sharing, whistleblower protection and financial oversight of the security sector. Aidan co-authored a major European Parliament study on Parliamentary Oversight of Security and Intelligence Services in the European Union, and co-edited International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability. More recently, he has published on the external oversight of policing, public inquiries in the national security field and the evaluation of security oversight mechanisms; he was the co-editor of Overseeing Intelligence Services: A Toolkit (2012). Aidan was also a lead consultant in drafting the UN compilation of good practices on intelligence services and their oversight (for the former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter terrorism). Aidan has delivered training on SSG to parliamentarians and civil society throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Jules Yao-Yao Colonel-Major Jules Ahoussou Yao-Yao is a trainer and lecturer in the fields of sustainable development, renewable energy, communication and information technologies. From 2010 to 2012 he was inspector air of the Republican Forces of Cote d’Ivoire. He also served from 2002 to 2005 as both spokesperson of the armies and director of telecommunications and information systems with the Ministry for Defense.

Principles on National Security and the RTI Participants II

 Col. Birame Diop, Partners Senegal  Mohammed Tibanyendera  Karen Mohan  Ancilla Nyirenda  Aubrey Chikungwa, Misa Malawi  Chantal Kisoon, South African Human Rights Commission  Fola Adeleke, South African Human Rights Commission  Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand  Luisa Rogerio, SNJA

 Mareatile Polaki, University of the Witwatersrand  Phenyo Butale  Ramotso Maobert  Vuyisile Hlatshwayo  Zonke Mehlomakulu