Board of Directors

Mr KEN ROBERTS (CHAIRPERSON), Deputy Registrar, ICTY. His previous positions include Senior Legal Officer, Appeals Chamber, ICTY; and Chief of the Legal Policy Unit of the Department of Justice in the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

Mr REINHOLD GALLMETZER (TREASURER), Appeals Counsel with the Office of the Prosecutor of the Interntional Criminal Court. His previous positions include Legal Officer,Chambers, ICC; Associate Legal Officer, Chambers, ICTY; Judicial Training Officer, Kosovo Judicial Institute, OSCE; and Legal Consultant to the authorities in South Sudan and to the Criminal Defence Section of the State Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mr NORMAN FARRELL (SECRETARY), Deputy Prosecutor, ICTY. His previous positions include Senior Appeals Counsel and Head of the Appeals Section in the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY and ICTR; Legal Advisor on International Humanitarian Law, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Advisor on International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, Switzerland, for the International Committee of the Red Cross; and Crown Counsel (Criminal Division) with the Attorney General for the Province of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.

Ms CATHERINE MARCHI-UHEL, International Judge, Pre-Trial Chamber, Khmer Rouge chambers.  Her previous positions include Head of Chambers, ICTY; International Judge, UNMIK; and Judge, France.

Ms KAORU OKUIZUMI, Deputy Registrar, Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Her previous positions include Justice Policy Coordinator, Criminal Law and Judicial Advisory Section, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UN Headquarters; Legal Adviser, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nepal; legal adviser to the Registrar of the SCSL; and Chief of the Human Rights Investigations Desk of the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ms Okuizumi is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Mr GABRIëL OOSTHUIZEN, International Justice Consultant. His previous positions include Chief of Party, Uganda Project of the Public International Law & Policy Group; ICLS Executive Director; Associate Legal Officer in a trial chamber at the ICTY; and Head of the Legal Unit in the UNMIK Department of Justice. He has consulted and published on international criminal justice and international affairs issues.

Mr MICHIEL PESTMAN, Partner, Böhler law firm in Amsterdam, and defence counsel at Khmer Rouge chambers. A member of the Amsterdam bar, he was a defence counsel at the SCSL and a member of the team representing Bosnia and Herzegovina before the International Court of Justice in their action against Serbia for genocide.

Dr ROD RASTAN, Legal Adviser, Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division, Office of the Prosecutor, ICC. His previous positions include Chief, Special Response Unit/Human Rights Office, UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Legal Adviser, EU Police Mission; Legal Consultant, UN Good Offices Mission in Cyprus; and Human Rights Officer, UN Mission in East Timor.

Mr RICHARD ROGERS, Senior Legal Officer, Appeals Chamber, ICTY. His previous positions include Chief, Defence Support Section, ECCC; Chief, Legal System Monitoring Section, OSCE Mission in Kosovo; and legal adviser, ICTR and ICTY chambers. He practised as a criminal defence barrister in London and as an international litigation attorney in California.

Executive Director

Ms CECILIA NILSSON KLEFFNER, Executive Director, ICLS. Her previous positions include Hague Director and Legal Advisor, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court; Director of the Hague Office, Hague Appeal for Peace; Acting Executive Director, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms; Consultant, ICTY; and Programme Officer, the Association of European Parliamentarians for Southern Africa.