DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE 2018

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1 DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE 2018 The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at 20: Achievements, Challenges, and the EU s Contribution to Accountability and Justice Virginie Amato BIOS OF SPEAKERS/CHAIRS Regional Coordinator for Europe, International Coalition for the ICC Virginie Amato is the Regional Coordinator for Europe for the Coalition for the International Criminal Court - an international network of civil society organizations in 150 different countries working in partnership to strengthen international cooperation with the ICC; ensure that the Court is fair, effective and independent; make justice both visible and universal; and advance stronger national laws that deliver justice to victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Trained in international criminal law and international humanitarian law, and human rights, Virginie Amato has been an advocate on international justice issues, in particular the ICC, with a special focus on the EU and the greater European and Central Asia region, and the workings of the Rome Statute system through the European lens. Olympia Bekou Professor, University of Nottingham Olympia Bekou is Professor of Public International Law and Head, International Criminal Justice Unit, University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. A qualified lawyer, she specialises in international criminal law. Olympia has undertaken numerous capacity-building missions, including in post-conflict situations (such as Uganda, the DRC and Sierra Leone), has provided legislation drafting assistance to Samoa (with legislation enacted in November 2007) and Jamaica, and has been involved in training the Thai judiciary. She is Deputy Director of the Case Matrix Network and a member of the Advisory Board and Editor of the Forum of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law. She is also a member of the Board of Civitas Maxima. Olympia is responsible for the National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) of the ICC Legal Tools Project, the creator of the Cooperation and Judicial Assistance Database (CJAD), and has taught extensively worldwide. In 2014, she was awarded the University of Nottingham Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Award for Societal Impact in Social Sciences for her

2 work and in she was recognised as an Impact Leader as part of ESRC s impact leaders programme. Santa Falasca Head of Office, Brussels and The Hague Santa Falasca joined ICTJ in As Head of Office in Brussels and The Hague, she is responsible for defining and implementing targeted policy initiatives with EU institutions, the Dutch government, selected European governments and international organizations. She has more than 15 years' experience in working in the field of external policies and cooperation programs with EU institutions, INGOs and IOs. Before joining ICTJ, she served for five years as project manager for the European Commission, in Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development in Brussels and in the delegations in Slovenia and Poland, monitoring EU funded projects in the field of human rights, rule of law and justice reforms. Previously, she worked as an advocacy and campaign officer for the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), responsible for promoting the ICC towards the EU institutions and for coordinating CICC's campaign in Central and Eastern Europe. Before joining CICC, Santa worked as legal advisor for the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) and as coordinator of a field project for the International Organization for Migration (OIM). She has an MA in Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in Brugge. Mercedes Garcia Perez Head, Division Human Rights, European External Action Service Mercedes García Pérez is the Head of Division for Human Rights in the European External Action Service, under the Managing Directorate for Global issues. Ms. García Pérez previously worked in the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC), the body of the European External Action Service that has responsibility for the planning and conduct of EU civilian CSDP operations. As Head of Operations, she oversaw the conduct of ten missions in three continents with more than 2500 international staff on the ground. This included capacity building of security and rule of law structures in Afghanistan, Niger and Palestine, executive rule of law powers in Kosovo, monitoring of peace agreements in Georgia, maritime security in the Horn of Africa and support to integrated border management in Libya. Ms. García Pérez is an official of the European Union since 2003, and has also worked on Development and Africa policy issues. A lawyer by training, from 1998 to 2002 she worked as a Practising Attorney in EU law in Brussels. Until 2011, she was a Member of the Academic Council and teacher at the Institut Supérieur de Management Public et Politique in Paris. Ms. García Pérez holds an LLM on European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and Degrees in Law and Literature (Universidad Complutense) as well as a Diploma in Advanced International Studies.

3 Marc Giacomini Deputy Managing Director for Human Rights, Global and Multilateral Affairs, European External Action Service Mr. Marc Giacomini starting working as Deputy Managing Director for Human Rights, Global and Multilateral Affairs at the European External Action Service on 1 February Previously, Mr. Giacomini has worked for many years in foreign affairs. Most recently, he was Ambassador at large for Reconstruction and Development ( ) dealing, in particular, with post-crisis situations. He has also held various positions in French Embassies: First Secretary in Italy ( ); First Secretary and Second Counsellor in the Permanent Representation to the EU ( ); Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN & IOs in Geneva ( ), and Ambassador to Chile ( ). In Paris, he was Assistant Director of Economic Affairs ( ) and Deputy Director ( ) at the Directorate for the United Nations and International Organisations; and Head of International Affairs at the Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environment ( ). He started his diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate for Legal Affairs with responsibilities for mainly, Community-related matters ( ). Mr. Giacomini is an alumnus of the Ecole Nationale d'administration (E.N.A.) and Institut d'etudes Politiques de Paris. Christopher Gosnell Defense Counsel, ICC Christopher Gosnell has defended cases before the ICC, ICTY, ICTR, MICT and SCSL. He is Lead Counsel for one of the accused in the Bemba et al. contempt proceedings, and Associate Counsel for Bosco Ntaganda. He formerly worked in the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY, in the Office of Public Counsel for Victims at the ICC, and in Chambers at the ICTR. After clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada, he was an associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, and taught at Columbia Law School and at the Académie de droit humanitairein Geneva. He is the co-editor of Principles of Evidence in International Criminal Justice, and the author of various articles and book chapters, including Damned If You Don t: Liability for Omissions in International Criminal Law, in The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law. Lotte Leicht EU Director and Director of the Brussels office, Human Rights Watch Lotte Leicht, the European Union Director and Director of Human Rights Watch's Brussels Office since 1994, has specialized expertise in international human rights and humanitarian law and in international advocacy. Leicht, a lawyer by training who specialized in international human rights and humanitarian law, frequently testifies before international intergovernmental organizations, has conducted numerous human rights and humanitarian law investigations in various conflict zones, and written extensively on human rights issues for major publications. She is the co-editor of Monitoring Human Rights in Europe: Comparing International Procedure and Mechanisms. Leicht also serves as

4 the Chairwoman of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. Leicht also serves on the advisory board of European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democatization. Before joining HRW, Leicht was program director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights in Vienna and a staff member at the Danish Center for Human Rights. A law graduate from Copenhagen University, and a lawyer by training, Leicht speaks English, French, German, Russian, and Danish. Christian Mahr Director, Division of External Operations, Registry, ICC Christian Mahr (Japan) joined the International Criminal Court (ICC) in June 2016 as the Director of the Division of External Operations within the Registry. In his current capacity, he oversees the Registry's functions in the areas of cooperation, external communication, protection of witnesses and analysis. He also supervises the operations of all field offices of the ICC located in situation countries. Prior to joining the ICC, Mr. Mahr was a Senior Legal Officer and the Coordinator of the Border Control and Law Enforcement Working Group at the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), a special political mission of the United Nations Security Council. While at CTED, he took the lead in designing, developing and securing the endorsement of the Security Council members for the main assessment tools used by CTED to measure the implementation by Member States of Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001). Prior to joining CTED in 2005, he spent 10 years working in a variety of representative, legal, programmatic and administrative functions for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the United Kingdom, Poland and Belarus. Prior to joining UNHCR, he held private sector positions in management consulting and public relations. Mr. Mahr holds a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a visiting fellow at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Manfred Nowak EIUC Secretary General Manfred Nowak has been Secretary General of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice since January In addition, he is Professor for International Human Rights at the University of Vienna, where he is the scientific director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights and head of the Research Center Human Rights and co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights. In October 2016, he was appointed as independent expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. Aside from Vienna University, Manfred Nowak was Professor of International Law and Human Rights at various prestigious universities, such as Utrecht, Lund, Stanford and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and has published more than 600 books and articles in this field, including various language editions of the CCPR-Commentary, a CAT- Commentary and an introduction to the International Human Rights Regime. He has carried out various expert functions for the UN, the Council of Europe, the EU and other inter-governmental organizations. Most importantly, he served for many years in various functions as UN Expert on

5 Enforced Disappearances (1993 to 2006), as one of eight international judges in the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (1996 to 2003), and as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004 to 2010). Ciara O Brien COHOM Chair Ciara O'Brien was appointed to her current role as Chair of COHOM, the working group on human rights in external action of the Council of the EU, in September Previously she worked for more than 20 years as an Irish diplomat serving in postings to Paris, Brussels and Geneva, where she focussed on humanitarian aid policy at the UN. She has extensive experience on development issues following a number of roles with the Irish overseas aid programme Irish Aid including on civil society policy, aid effectiveness, as well as emergency response and conflict prevention. She also has worked on humanitarian aid policy at the field level including on crises in Sudan, Liberia and Niger. In recent years she served as Chair of the development cooperation working group of the Council of the EU, CODEV, during Ireland's 2013 Presidency of the Council and was involved in the negotiation of the Agenda 2030 both at EU and UN level. She has also managed human rights financing instruments over a number of years. Alison Smith Director of the International Criminal Justice Program, No Peace Without Justice Alison Smith is the Legal Counsel and Director of the International Criminal Justice Program for No Peace Without Justice, having formerly worked as the Country Director in Sierra Leone for No Peace Without Justice. In addition, she served as the chief legal adviser to the Vice President of Sierra Leone on the Special Court and international humanitarian law. She has acted as international legal adviser to a number of clients including the Tibetan Government in Exile, Kosovar politicians and has worked with No Peace Without Justice and UNICEF on the production of a book on international criminal law and children. Since 2000, she has worked as a legal adviser to the government of Thailand during the United Nations Preparatory Commissions for the establishment of an International Criminal Court and during the first sessions of the Assembly of States Parties. Ms. Smith worked in Kosovo as an international legal officer for the International Crisis Group s Humanitarian Law Documentation Project, which gathered statements from victims and witnesses of violations international humanitarian law in Kosovo. Prior to that, she was a researcher at the Kennedy School of Government s Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. From March to June 2013, she was on temporary special leave of absence, as acting Head of Office and Senior Legal Adviser to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, to assist with the completion and wrap-up of its work. Ms. Smith is an Australian barrister and holds a Masters Degree in International Law from the Australian National University.

6 Pietro Sullo Research Associate, KU Leuven Dr. Pietro Sullo teaches public international law at the Brussels School of International Studies of the University of Kent and is a research associate at the University of Leuven. His main areas of expertise include international law, human rights law, transitional justice, international criminal law and refugee law. Dr. Sullo has worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg as a senior researcher in the Sudan Team and as a coordinator of the International Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. He was the Director of the European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratization (E.MA) in Venice from 2013 to In 2016 he has finalized a study on the implementation of the EU Dublin III Regulation for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He has also worked for international NGOs and as a consultant on human rights and transitional justice for the Libya Constitution Drafting Assembly. His record of publications includes articles in peer review journals, book chapters and a monograph entitled Beyond Genocide: Transitional Justice and Gacaca Courts in Rwanda. The Search for Truth Justice and Reconciliation, (Asser Press-Springer, 2018, in press). Thomas Unger Researcher and Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Geneva Academy Thomas Unger is a researcher on transitional justice at the Geneva Academy and Co- Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law. He is the former Senior Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. With more than 15 years of expertise in the field of transitional justice, he was previously a legal adviser on human rights and international humanitarian law to the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and a senior associate of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He also worked as a legal system monitor with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and as a legal clerk with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Thomas Unger holds a degree in Law from the University of Vienna, an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law and a Master s in Human Rights and Democratization from the European Inter- University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (Venice). Together with Frank Haldemann, he is currently co-editing a multi-authored commentary on the UN set of principles to combat impunity (to be published by Oxford University Press in 2016).

7 Jan Wouters Director, Leuven Center for Global Governance Center, KU Leuven Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam European Union and Global Governance, Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (both a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and a University Centre of Excellence) at KU Leuven, and President of the University s Board for International Policy. He is Adjunct Professor at Columbia University (New York) and Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris), LUISS (Rome) and the College of Europe (Bruges). A Member of the Belgian Royal Academy and Of Counsel at Linklaters, he has published widely on international and EU law, international organizations and global governance. He is Coordinator of a large Horizon 2020 Project, RECONNECT (Reconnecting Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law). He advises and trains regularly international organizations and governments, and is often asked to comment international events in the media. Christine Van den Wyngaert Judge, International Criminal Court Judge Van den Wyngaert (1952) graduated from Brussels University in 1974 and obtained a PhD in International Criminal Law in She was a professor of law at the University of Antwerp ( ) where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative criminal law and international criminal law. She authored numerous publications in all these fields. She was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (Centre for European Legal Studies ( ), Research Centre for International Law ( )) and a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her merits as an academic were recognised in the form of a Doctorate Honoris Causa, awarded by the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2001). In 2010, she was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Brussels, Belgium. Her merits as an academic were recognised in the form of five Doctorates Honoris Causa, awarded by the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2001), the University of Brussels (2010), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio (2013), the University of Maastricht (2013) and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (2018). Judge Van den Wyngaert gained expertise in various governmental organisations. She was a member of the Criminal Procedure Reform Commission in Belgium (Commission Franchimont) ( ) and served as an expert for the European Union in various criminal law projects. She has extensive international judicial experience. She served in the International Court of Justice as an ad hoc judge in the Arrest Warrant Case ( ) and was elected as a judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia where she served for more than five years ( ). In 2013, the Flemish Government awarded her a golden medal for her achievements in international criminal law. In 2014, she was elected Vice President of the International Association of Penal Law. Judge Van den Wyngaert was granted the title of Baroness by the King of Belgium for her merits as an academic and as an international judge. She was an expert for the two major scientific organisations in her field, the International Law Association and the International Association of Penal Law, which elected her to the position of Vice President at the Rio de Janeiro Congress of Penal Law in She was an observer of the Human

8 Rights League at the trial of Helen Passtoors in Johannesburg in 1986 and made human rights a focal point in her teachings and writings throughout her career. In 2006, she was awarded the Prize of the Human Rights League. Frans Viljoen Director, Human Rights Center, University of Pretoria Frans Viljoen is professor in and Director of the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria. The Centre for Human Rights hosts the Master s in Human Rights and Democratisation Africa (HRDA), together with 13 partner universities across Africa, as part of the European Union-supported Global Campus of Human Rights. His research area is international human rights law, with a focus on the African regional human rights system. He has published widely on international human rights law, including International human rights law in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2012). He is editor-in-chief of the African Human Rights Law Journal, the African Human Rights Yearbook and the Global Campus Human Rights Journal. He has been involved with advocacy campaigns and litigation before South African courts, the African Union human rights bodies, including in respect of South Africa s attempted withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Eric Witte Senior Project Manager on national trials of grave crimes, Open Society Justice Initiative Eric Witte is the senior project manager on national trials of grave crimes for the Open Society Justice Initiative. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations, Witte served as external relations adviser to the president of the International Criminal Court. Before that, he served as political adviser to the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he developed strategies for bringing then-fugitive former Liberian president Charles Taylor into the court's custody. He also worked at the Coalition for International Justice in Washington, D.C., on the political strategy leading to the arrest of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and his transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Having published widely on international justice, Witte has authored or coauthored several Justice Initiative publications. Most recently, he co-authored the forthcoming Options for Justice: A Handbook for Designing Accountability Mechanisms for Grave Crimes. Witte has an MA in political science from the Universität Regensburg, Germany.