Philipp Ambach
is Chief of the Victims Participation and Reparations Section at the International Criminal Court (icc). He previously served as the icc President’s Special Assistant for over six years. Before that, he worked at the UN ad hoc tribunals icty and ictr as a legal adviser to the Judges of the Appeals Chamber. Prior to that, he worked as an associate legal officer in the icty Registry. Mr. Ambach holds a Ph.D. in international criminal law from Free University of Berlin and has been admitted as prosecutor in the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Cologne, Germany. He obtained his Masters degree in law in 2004 from Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany.
Olympia Bekou
is a Professor of Public International Law and Head of School, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK.
Rafael Braga da Silva
is an Associate Appeals Counsel at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (irmct). He holds a ll.m. from University for Peace and United Nations Interregional Criminal and Justice Research Institute (unicri). He also holds a ll.m. Adv. Studies in Public International Law cum laude, from the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University.
David Donat Cattin
has been the Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action (‘pga’) from 2014 to March 2023. He holds a post-doctorate diploma from the Centre for Studies and Research of The Hague Academy of International Law (2002), a Ph.D. in Public International Law (2000) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Teramo (Italy) and a Law Degree from luiss-Guido Carli University at Rome. He is Adjunct Professor of International Law at New York University (nyu) Center for Global Affairs since 2012, and Adjunct Professor of the Law of International Organizations at University of Verona, Faculty of Law since 2023.
Chile Eboe-Osuji
is the Former President and Appeals Judge, International Criminal Court; Distinguished International Jurist, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University; Paul Martin Senior Professor of Political Science,
Mohamed M. El Zeidy
is the Senior Legal Adviser to the President, Kosovo Specialist Chambers (2019-present); Legal Officer, Pre-Trial Division, International Criminal Court (2007–2021); Chancellor, State Lawsuits Authority, Egyptian Ministry of Justice (2022-present); Judge and Senior Public Prosecutor, Egyptian Ministry of Justice (1997–2007); Ph.D. and ll.m. (Ireland); ll.m. (Cairo); Licence en droit & Bachelor of Police Sciences (Cairo).
Elizabeth Evenson
is the International Justice Director, Human Rights Watch. This contribution was prepared during the time the author served as the director of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court Secretariat (January–July 2022).
Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi
is President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute and former President of the International Criminal Court.
Carla Ferstman
is a Professor at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, former Director of redress (2004–2018).
Olivia Flasch
is a Legal Consultant in Public International Law, London.
Stuart Ford
is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Chicago (uic) School of Law. International Justice Director, Human Rights Watch. This contribution was prepared during the time the author served as the director of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court Secretariat (January–July 2022).
Lindsay Freeman
is the Director of Technology, Law, and Policy at the Human Rights Center, uc Berkeley School of Law.
is a Malaysian lawyer specialising in international criminal law, human rights law and gender. She was a prosecutor and appeals counsel at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She served as the first Legal Advisor for sexual and gender-based crimes at the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria (the iiim Syria). She was Gender Advisor for the UN Investigation on Sri Lanka and Senior Advisor to the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission of The Gambia. In 2021, Priya was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, as the member from the Asia-Pacific region. She holds a ll.m in Public International Law (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a b.a. Jurisprudence (Hons) from the University of Oxford, where she was a UK Commonwealth Chevening Scholar from Malaysia.
Piotr Hofmański
is President of the International Criminal Court. He holds a Ph.D. from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Prior to joining the Court, he has been Professor of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he holds a Chair in Criminal Procedure Law. He has also served as judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court.
Dov Jacobs
is Co-Counsel at the International Criminal Court, co-founder of Strategic International Legal Consulting (silc) and former Vice-President of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (iccba).
Karim Khan
is Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He is a barrister and King’s Counsel with more than 30 years of professional experience as an international criminal law and human rights lawyer. He served inter alia as first Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to promote accountability for crimes committed by Da’esh/isil in Iraq (unitad) between 2018 to 2021 and as President of the icc Bar Association.
Philippe Kirsch
is the former President and Judge of the icc (2003–2009); Chair of the Committee of the Whole of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of
Alexa Koenig
holds a Ph.D. and JD. She is Co-Executive Director and Co-Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and a lecturer at uc Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law.
Peter Lewis
was elected Registrar of the International Criminal Court (icc) on 28 March 2018 for a period of five years and was sworn in on 17 April 2018. Before joining the Court, Mr Lewis was Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service (cps) in England and Wales between 2007 and 2016. Mr Lewis was a UK delegate to the United Nations Preparatory Commission for the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the icc in 1999–2000 and a member of the expert working group on the draft regulations of the icc Office of the Prosecutor. Mr Lewis was made a companion of the Order of the Bath in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2012.
Fiona McKay
is an international justice consultant, former Senior Managing Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative and former Chief of the Victim Participation and Reparations Section at the icc.
Angela Mudukuti
is a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer, specialised in international criminal law. She has worked for a number of organisations including the International Criminal Court (icc), Open Society Foundations, Human Rights Watch, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (salc).
is Lead Counsel at the international criminal court and co-founder of Strategic International Legal Consulting (silc) and former President of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (iccba).
Phoebe Okowa
is a Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary University of London; Member, United Nations International Law Commission.
Raul C. Pangalangan
is a Professor of Law and former Law Dean, University of the Philippines; former Judge, International Criminal Court.
Priya Pillai
heads the Asia Justice Coalition Secretariat, a network of organizations focused on justice and accountability in Asia. She holds a Ph.D. in international law and transitional justice from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, an ll.m from New York University, and a b.a., ll.b. (Hons.) degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Astrid Reisinger Coracini
is a Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna.
Darryl Robinson
is a Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law (Canada).
Leila Nadya Sadat
is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law; Visiting Fellow, Orville Schell Center for Human Rights, Yale Law School; Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court Prosecutor.
Lorraine Smith-van Lin
is an International justice consultant and specialist on victim matters. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Tallawah Justice for Women.
is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the Leiden Law School and Queen’s University Belfast. He holds a Ph.D. and habilitation from Humboldt University Berlin.
Minerva Tavárez Mirabal
is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims.
Muriel Ubeda-Saillard
is a Professor at Lille University (France), Co-Director of the graduate course on International Criminal Justice.