• BA - Bachelor of Arts (Carleton Univ., Ottawa)
  
• LLB - Bachelor of Laws (Osgoode Hall,Toronto)
  
• LLM - Master of Laws (University of Essex, Colchester)
  
• PhD - Docteur ès sciences politiques en droit international (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland)
  

• Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva 1994-2001)
  
• Coordinator, UN Human Rights Council's Group of Experts on Darfur, Geneva (2007)
  
• Expert consultant for UNOHCHR, UNDEF, UNDP, UNU, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNESCO, UNODC, ILO
  

• Visiting Professor, Raoul    Wallenberg Institute, Lund, Sweden
  
• Visiting Professor, The American University of Rome, Italy
  
• Visiting Professor, Strathmore University Law School, Nairobi, Kenya
  
• Visiting Professor at the Addis Ababa University Centre for Human Rights, Ethiopia
  
• Lecturer at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy,
  

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Over 25 years' high-level experience in human rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law in some 55 countries

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• International human rights law
  
• International humanitarian law
  
• International criminal law
  
• Transitional justice