BIOGRAPHIES OF THE SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE Dr. Jay

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE
Dr. Jay Aronson
Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society
Carnegie Mellon University
United States of America
Jay Aronson is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at
Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching focus is on the
interactions of science, technology, law, and human rights in a variety of
contexts. He is currently engaged in a long-term study of the ethical, political,
and social dimensions of post-conflict and post-disaster identification of the
missing and disappeared. This work is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH). Jay is also part of a project that seeks to improve the quality of civilian casualty
recording and estimation in times of conflict. He is the founder and director of the Center for Human
Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon. Jay’s previous research focused on the development and use of
forensic DNA identification in the American criminal justice system. He received his Ph.D. in History
of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota and was both a pre- and post-doctoral
fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Lori E. Baker
Department of Anthropology
Baylor University
United States of America
Dr. Lori Baker joined the faculty at Baylor University in 2002 where she is an
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Science. She received her
doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee and was a postdoctoral
fellow in the Graduate School of Medicine focusing on forensic and ancient
DNA research. In 2003, Dr. Baker founded and is the Director of the
Reuniting Families Project, a program that aids in the identification of
undocumented immigrants that perish during migration into the U.S. along the southern border. For
the last two years, she has led forensic recovery teams to exhume graves of the unidentified in South
Texas and is building a Border Consortium of Forensic Scientists to aid in these efforts. She has
worked throughout Latin America on the recovery and identification of remains of victims of human
rights violations and assisted in the establishment of Mexico’s database for missing nationals abroad.
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Dr. Ingo Bastisch
Scientific Director
Forensic Science Institute, Bundeskriminalamt
(BKA, Federal Criminal Police Office)
Germany
Dr. Bastisch has been member of the DNA laboratory at the
Bundeskriminalamt since 1999 and currently holds the position of
Scientific Director. He completed his PhD on Retroviral Gene Transfer to
Hematopoietic Stem Cells at Hannover Medical School. He was the Chair
of the DNA Working Group of the European Network of Forensic Science
Institutes (ENFSI) and is a member of the Interpol DNA Monitoring Expert Group. Dr. Bastisch was
the German DNA coordinator in Thailand following the tsunami in 2004 and the Chair of the
Scientific Advisory Sub-Committee of the Thailand Tsunami Victim Identification (TTVI) process.
Mr. Brian Behlendorf
Member of the Board of Directors
Benetech
United States of America
Brian Behlendorf is a technology adviser and entrepreneur who has held
founding and executive board positions in firms and non-profits focused
on open systems, open standards and open source. Behlendorf organized
and served as the Founding President of the Apache Software Foundation,
a 501c3 non-profit that organizes volunteer software development
projects around key Internet technologies, helping ensure an open and
free marketplace. Behlendorf also founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of CollabNet, a
company focused on bringing open source collaborative software development tools and
methodologies into enterprise environments. Behlendorf currently serves on the Board of the
Mozilla Foundation, the single largest open source project by user base, revenue and funded core
headcount. He is also a Senior Technologist with Mithril Capital Management LLC, a growth-stage
investment firm based in San Francisco.
Ms. Olgica Božanić
Member of the Regional Coordination Steering Board,
Regional Coordination of Family Associations
Republic of Serbia
Olgica Božanić was born and raised in Orahovac, Kosovo. She lived there
until June 1999. Two of her brothers were forcibly disappeared during the
conflict in Kosovo in 1998. Today Olgica lives in Belgrade, Serbia where she
is a civil society activist lobbying the authorities in both Serbia and Kosovo
and the broader region of the Western Balkans to locate, recover and
identify missing persons regardless of their ethnic, national or religious belonging.
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She is a member of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons of Kosovo and
Metohija, which has been headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia, since it was founded in 2000. In March
2004 she was appointed secretary of the Association; her mandate was extended at the association’s
assembly in 2008. She has tirelessly asserted the rights of families of missing persons to truth, justice
and reparation before national and international institutions. She has addressed the problems and
impediments in the search for missing persons process, including difficulties to exercise fundamental
rights faced by their family members on countless TV programs and documentaries. She has
travelled far and wide to lobby for an adequate response to the missing persons issue. She was a
member of delegation of representatives of missing Serbs’ families from the former Yugoslavia to
the USA (Washington, New York, Oklahoma City, Chicago) in 2003 where she addressed Congress.
She has been a long-time advocate of enhanced cooperation with Kosovo Albanian associations of
families of missing persons and their joint action to drive forward the missing persons process, and
has participated for several years in a mixed civil society network of associations of Kosovo Albanian
and Kosovo Serb families of missing persons.
She represents families of missing persons from Kosovo in the Regional Coordination of Associations
of Families of Missing Persons from the former Yugoslavia, a civil society group that gathers together
Bosniak, Croat and Serb families of missing persons and provides a platform for their joint advocacy
efforts on a regional level. She is currently a member of the Regional Coordination’s Steering Board
and its deputy chairperson.
She is a member of the Coordination of Serb Associations of Missing Persons Families from the
former Yugoslavia, in which she has held two mandates as a chairperson and a deputy.
Olgica Bozanic is a mother of three children.
Mr. Frank DePaolo
Assistant Commissioner, Emergency Management
Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York
United States of America
As Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s
Emergency Management Division, Frank DePaolo has catapulted New
York City to its position as a national leader in mass fatality management.
In 2003, he established the Medical Examiner Special Operations
Response Team (MESORT), a medical examiner-based, multi-disciplinary,
hazmat certified-forensic response team, the first of its kind in the
nation. Mr. DePaolo is the driving force behind the Unified Victim Identification System (UVIS), a
pioneering data collection and integrated fatality and case management application that facilitates
disaster missing persons reporting and victim identification.
Mr. DePaolo continues to oversee OCME’s ongoing World Trade Center recovery operations. He is
also responsible for emergency preparedness, planning and disaster response to include continuity
of operations (COOP), a multi-state regional mass fatality response system, and the Special
Operations Division (SOD). In addition, he oversees the agencies Security and Forensic Evidence
Divisions.
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Frank DePaolo is a subject matter expert on mass fatality management at the national level serving
on several federal boards such as the Scientific Working Group on Disaster Victim Identification
(SWGDVI). Mr. DePaolo is the Project Lead for the FEMA Regional Catastrophic Planning Grant’s
Mass Fatality Management Response Program.
Mr. DePaolo serves as the elected First Vice President of the International Association of Coroners &
Medical Examiners (IAC&ME). He is an experienced medical practitioner with 25 years of experience
as a New York City paramedic and board certified physician assistant licensed in New York and New
Jersey. He is a Clinical Professor of Forensic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and maintains
several first responder certifications including Hazmat Technician. Mr. DePaolo trained with the
United States Army’s Mortuary Affairs Center (MAC) at Ft. Lee, Virginia, and was one of only a few
US Naval Officers to earn the US Army’s “4V” Joint Mortuary Affairs Officer designation.
Mr. DePaolo serves as the elected First Vice President of the International Association of Coroners &
Medical Examiners (IAC&ME). He is an experienced medical practitioner with 25 years of experience
as a New York City paramedic and board certified physician assistant licensed in New York and New
Jersey. He is a Clinical Professor of Forensic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and maintains
several first responder certifications including Hazmat Technician. Mr. DePaolo trained with the
United States Army’s Mortuary Affairs Center (MAC) at Ft. Lee, Virginia, and was one of only a few
US Naval Officers to earn the US Army’s “4V” Joint Mortuary Affairs Officer designation.
Ms. Pam Dix
Executive Director
Disaster Action
United Kingdom
Pam Dix is a founder member and Executive Director of the nongovernmental organization Disaster Action (founded by survivors and
bereaved from disasters in 1991).
On behalf of Disaster Action Pam acts as a lay adviser to UK central and local
government and the statutory and voluntary services on the human aspects of emergency planning
and response, contributing to UK national guidance on emergency procedures, psychosocial support,
disaster victim identification and police family liaison. Pam has contributed to a number of European
Union initiatives around emergencies including the European Commission-funded Red Cross
Informed Prepared Together project on emergency preparedness (see
http://www.informedprepared.eu/).
She is a board member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society.
Pam has been contributing to statutory and voluntary services training on major incidents since
1992. This includes presentations on: strategic multi agency incident command courses, the 2013
Interpol Disaster Victim Identification Standing Committee conference and the International
Committee of the Red Cross mass fatalities courses in Geneva.
Pam’s brother Peter Dix was killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21
December 1988.
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Ms. Jasminka Džumhur
Ombudsperson for Human Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Member of UN Working Group for Enforced and Involuntary
Disappearances
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ms. Jasminka Džumhur is the Ombudsperson for Human Rights of
Bosnia and Herzegovina and a member of UN Working Group for
Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. She has a degree in Law and
a Master of Criminology Sciences. Ms. Dzumhur served as a judge and
President of the Minor Offence Court in Zenica. She previously worked for the High Commissioner
for Human Rights, the International Commission on Missing Persons and a number of international,
regional and national bodies. Ms. Džumhur has been consultant for many international and national
organizations such ans as the Danish Refugee Council, the International Crisis Group, OSCE, UNDP,
UNICEF, UNIFEM, USAID and the Soros Foundation. She is one of the founders of the Women
Association Medica in Zenica and the Center for Legal Aid Zenica. She has published extensively on
human rights and contributed in the development of human rights standards for the protection of
victims of in the legal framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr. Henry Erlich
Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute (CHORI)
United States of America
Dr. Erlich was the Vice President of Discovery Research and
Director of the Human Genetics Department at Roche
Molecular Systems in Pleasanton, California (retired in June
2013).
He is currently a Scientist at Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research
Institute (CHORI). He is a molecular biologist, geneticist, and
immunologist, and has been engaged in the development and application of PCR in basic research,
medical diagnostics, evolution and anthropology, and forensics. One of his major interests is the
analysis of polymorphism in the HLA genes and the development of HLA typing tests for tissue
typing, disease susceptibility, and individual identification. Dr. Erlich performed the first DNA
forensics case in 1986 in the US (Pennsylvania vs Pestinikis) and the first post-conviction review
(Dotson case) in 1987. Working with Dr. Cassandra Calloway of CHORI, he has developed
mitochondrial DNA tests used for identification of missing persons. He is currently applying Next
Generation Sequencing to both clinical and forensic genetics. He received his B.A. from Harvard
University and his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Washington, Seattle and has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at Princeton and the Department of Medicine at
Stanford. He has authored over 300 articles and is the recipient of various scientific awards.
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H.E. Mr. Ivo Josipović
President of the Republic of Croatia – PHOTO TO BE PROVIDED
Ivo Josipović, President of the Republic of Croatia, won the Presidential
elections on 10 January 2010 and took his oath of office as President of
the Republic of Croatia on 18 February 2010.
He was born in Zagreb on 28 August 1957 where he completed his
primary and secondary school. He graduated from the Faculty of Law
(1980) and passed his bar examination. He obtained his Master's degree
following his post-graduate studies in Criminal Procedure Law (1985) and
his Doctor's degree with the thesis "Law on Arrest and Pre-trial Detention in Criminal Procedure
Law" (1994) at the Zagreb University. He also graduated in Composition from the Zagreb Music
Academy.
Prior to his election to the office of the President Josipović was a university professor, a member of
the Croatian Parliament and a composer. He taught Criminal Procedure Law, International Penal Law
and Misdemeanour Law. At the Zagreb Music Academy he taught Harmony. He has published
several books and a total of 85 scholarly and expert papers in journals and magazines in the country
and abroad. He has composed some 50 compositions for different ensembles (symphony orchestra,
chamber orchestra, soloists) that are performed by eminent Croatian and foreign artists, published
as sheet music or some twenty sound storage media. He has received Croatian and international
artistic prizes and awards, inter alia, the Grand Prix of the European Broadcasting Union and two
Porin Croatian Record Awards. For a number of years he was Director of one of the largest festivals
of contemporary music, Music Biennale Zagreb, and Secretary-General of the Croatian Composers'
Society.
He has collaborated with a host of Croatian and foreign state, scholarly, university and artistic
institutions (from Germany, the USA, Canada, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Italy).
As a legal expert he took part in the UN PrepCom for the establishment of the International Criminal
Court as well as at the Rome Diplomatic Conference. He was an associate-expert of the Council of
Europe for monitoring prison systems in a number of countries. As a legal expert he drafted or codrafted a number of Croatian legislative bills. He represented Croatia before the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He is a
member of a number of legal and artistic associations both at home and abroad, inter alia, the World
Academy of Art and Science, Hrvatski pravni centar [Croatian Law Centre], Hrvatsko društvo za
europsko pravo [Croatian Society for European Law], Hrvatsko udruženje za kaznene znanosti i
praksu [Croatian Association for Penal Science and Practice].
His special fields of interest include: penal law, criminal procedure, misdemeanour, international
penal law, war crimes, international courts, human rights, fight against corruption and organised
crime.
He represented Croatia before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He participated in a number of international projects, and as an
expert of the Council of Europe participated in the evaluation of prisons in the Ukraine, Mongolia
and Azerbaijan.
He is a social democrat by conviction. The principle elements of his Presidential platform that was
the basis for his election as President of the Republic of Croatia are:
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(1) active membership of Croatia in international organisations and associations, particularly in the
UN, NATO, the Council of Europe (Croatia is a member of these organisations), and membership in
the European Union;
(2) normalisation of relations with the neighbouring countries of South-East Europe (Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and other countries in the surrounding area) and
establishment of intensive economic, cultural and political cooperation; the continuation and
development of political and other cooperation with third countries, in particular with the USA;
strengthening of economic ties with non-European countries, especially with Russia, China, India and
countries of Latin America;
(3) assertion of the universality of human rights and international courts for war crimes prosecution;
(4) further democratisation of Croatia, which includes assertion of human rights of all Croatian
citizens, particularly protection of the rights of national minorities;
(5) justice as the foundation for the state's organisation and functioning;
(6) modernisation of institutions of the Croatian state and provision of their professional service to
citizens (judiciary, state administration and local government);
(7) strengthening security of citizens;
(8) development of the Croatian economy in the context of the future EU membership as well as
care for the rights of workers (prohibition of any kind of discrimination).
Having completed Secondary School of Music he pursued his studies in Composition at the Zagreb
Music Academy. He composed pieces for different instruments, chamber ensembles and symphony
orchestras, inter alia, Igra staklenih perli [Glass Bead Game], Tuba Ludens, Samba da Camera, and
Hiljadu lotosa [A Thousand Lotuses]. For his compositions he received several prizes and awards at
home and abroad, including a prize of the European Broadcasting Union and the 1999 and the 2000
Porin Croatian Record Award. These compositions are performed today by soloists and ensembles in
the country and abroad.
Ivo Josipović speaks English and some German.
Ms. Sara Huston Katsanis, MS
Associate in Research in the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
Duke University
United States of America
Sara H. Katsanis is an Associate in Research in the Institute for Genome
Sciences & Policy at Duke University. Her research focuses on policy
options for genetic testing applications in medicine and law enforcement
and how genetic technologies affect individuals. Her current focus is the
use of DNA technologies for identifying victims of human trafficking, the
effects of genome sequencing on pediatric families with challenging diagnostics, and the ethics of
non-invasive prenatal testing. Previously she explored direct-to-consumer genetic testing,
pharmacogenetics drug labeling, familial searching using CODIS, and surreptitious collection of DNA.
Katsanis received a MS in Medical Genetics from Brunel University in 1997 having completed her
research thesis at Imperial College School of Medicine at St. Mary’s in London, UK. From 1998-2002,
she worked in Houston, TX, first as a DNA Analyst in the forensic laboratory at the Harris County
Medical Examiner’s Office, then as an Associate Scientist at Lexicon Genetics, Inc. In 2002, she joined
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD as Laboratory Manager for the DNA Diagnostic
Laboratory, responsible for oversight and supervision of clinical diagnostic testing. In 2006, Katsanis
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began working with the Genetics & Public Policy Center within the Berman Institute of Bioethics at
Johns Hopkins in Washington, DC. Katsanis joined Duke in 2009.
Professor Manfred Kayser
Chairman of Forensic Molecular Biology
Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Manfred Kayser currently is Professor of Forensic Molecular Biology at
the Erasmus University Rotterdam and is the founding head of the
Department of Forensic Molecular Biology at the Erasmus University
Medical Center Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He received his diploma in
biology from the University of Leipzig (Germany), his Ph.D. in
biology/genetics from Humboldt University Berlin (Germany), and his
habilitation in genetics from the University of Leipzig. He performed
postdoctoral research at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), and was staff scientist, later
Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council (DFG), at the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig before he moved to Rotterdam. His research background
includes forensic genetics, human evolutionary genetics, and molecular anthropology. One of his
particular interests is in unveiling the genetic basis of human appearance traits and bio-geographic
ancestry and its forensic DNA inference, as well as other areas within human molecular biology that
provide forensic applications such as molecular cell type identification, or molecular estimation of
sample deposition time. He has authored >130 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and
regularly accepts invitations to present at international conferences and institutes worldwide. He
regularly acts as ad hoc reviewer for research organizations in several countries as well as for many
scientific journals and is involved in editorial activities of a number of journals.
Dr. Alex John London
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
United States of America
Alex John London, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center
for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an elected fellow
of the Hastings Center and recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from
the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Professor London’s
research focuses on foundational issues in research with human
participants, issues of social justice in the trans-national context, and on
methodological issues in theoretical and applied ethics. Papers among his fifty publications have
appeared in Science, The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, and Forensic Science International: Genetics, among
others, and he has been commissioned to write papers by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He is a member of the Working Group on the
Revision of the 2002 CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving
Human Subjects and in 2011 he was appointed to the Steering Committee on Forensic Science
Programs for the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). He is a member of the Ethics
Committee for the Scientific Working Group on Disaster Victim Identification and since 2007 he has
served as a member of the Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).
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Professor José Antonio Lorente
Department of Legal Medicine, University of Granada
Scientific Director of GENYO
Director of DNA-PROKIDS (Missing Children Identification Program)
Spain
Jose A. Lorente (M.D., Ph.D.) is Full Professor of Forensic Medicine
at the University of Granada, Spain. He is a Specialist in Occupational
& Industrial Medicine and also Specialist in Forensic Medicine (1990).
After receiving his Ph.D. with Special Honors at the University of Granada in 1989, Dr. Lorente
moved to Heidelberg and Muenster (Germany) and later to the University of Berkeley and the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, USA where he became an expert in human genetic identification
and forensic genetics.
He has always felt special passion and interests for those cases related to human rights, trying to
use cutting-edge technologies to help the families and support Justice.
In 1999 he started the “Phoenix Program of Spain” - Missing Persons Genetic Identification Program
which is the first of its kind. In 2004, he created and started as the Scientific Director at the ‘DNAPROKIDS Program – International Missing Kids Identification Program’, (www.dna-prokids.org). This
program is now running in 16 countries around the world with great success (more than
700 children identified and returned to their families).
Jose Lorente believes in international cooperation and feels the need for coordination. In 1997
he created the Iberoamerican Working Group for DNA Analysis (GITAD) and in 1999
he created the Iberoamerican Academy of Criminalistics (AICEF – www.aicef.net), where
he was President from 1999 until 2006. From the period 20011-2013, Jose was elected President
of IFSA (International Forensic Strategic Alliance - www.enfsi.eu/ifsa), the global alliance of the
international forensic networks (ASCLD, SMANZFL, ENFSI, AICEF, AFSN & SARFSN).
In addition, Dr. Lorente is the Director of the Laboratory of Genetic Identification at the University of
Granada, and the Scientific Director at GENYO (Pfizer – University of Granada –
Andalusian Government Center for Genomics and Oncology - www.genyo.es).
Dr. Jose Lorente has published over 150 scientific papers, and has given more than 180 conferences
and talks in national and international meetings in more than 35 different countries.
The Rt. Hon. the Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
House of Lords
UK
Jack McConnell was First Minister of Scotland from 2001 to 2007.
Starting his career as a Mathematics teacher, he became a member of
Stirling District Council 1984-1993 and Scotland’s youngest Council
Leader 1990-1992.He served as General Secretary of the Scottish
Labour Party 1992-1998 and was a leading member of the Scottish
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Constitutional Convention from 1989 to 1998. From 1999 to 2011, Jack McConnell was the Member
of the Scottish Parliament for Motherwell and Wishaw. He was Scotland’s Minister for Finance 19992000 and Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs 2000-2001.
Lord McConnell was President of the Legislative Regions of Europe 2004, and served as the UK
Special Representative for Peacebuilding 2008-2010. He was appointed to the House of Lords in June
2010, as Rt Hon Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale. He acts as a consultant adviser and guest lecturer
to companies, universities and others. His parliamentary interests include peacebuilding,
international development, and support for vulnerable young people. He Chairs the All-Party
Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region of Africa, is a Board member of the UK/Japan 21st
Century Group, and is Trustee or Patron of several charities including the McConnell International
Foundation.
Ms. Fiona McKay
Head of the Victims Participation and Reparation Section
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Fiona McKay is a British lawyer who has been the Chief of the Victims
Participation and Reparations Section within the Registry of the
International Criminal Court since August 2004. The Section provides
assistance to victims of crimes within the Court’s jurisdiction for the
purpose of facilitating their participation in the proceedings and their
right to request reparations.
H.E. Mr. Aram Ahmed Mohammed
Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs
Iraq
Mr. Sabah Ahmed Mohamed, known as Mamosta Aram, was
appointed as the Kurdistan Regional Government Minister of
Martyrs and Anfal Affairs in the sixth cabinet. He was
appointed to this post in June 2011. He was reappointed in the
seventh cabinet, on 5 April 2012.
Born in Kirkuk in 1958, Mamosta Aram has an MSc in computer networking. He worked for 17 years
in computer technology and IT networking. He has previously worked as a teacher and headmaster.
Mamosta Aram was an active member of the Kurdish community in Britain and worked with NGOs
and voluntary organisations in Iraqi-Kurdistan.
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Mr. Kees Möhring
Director of External Relations
Netherlands Forensic Institute
The Netherlands
As Director of External Relations, Kees Möhring focuses on the domestic and
international clients of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), with the aim
of substantially increasing client satisfaction, and also expanding the variety
of the NFI’s client base. In this role, he is a member of the NFI Client
Platform, and represents the NFI in various advisory bodies of the public
prosecution service and the police force.
Mr Möhring has held his present position since 2005. Before joining the NFI, he held posts in law
enforcement at the Ministry of Security and Justice (especially in relation to detection policy and
operational affairs). He also served for some time with the Rotterdam Police Force.
Kees Möhring holds a degree in Law from Leiden University.
Sister Consuelo Morales
Citizens in Support of Human Rights
Mexico
Sister Consuelo Morales is member of Chanoinesses de Saint-Augustin
de la Congrégation Notre-Dame. She studied Social Work at Vasco de
Quiroga School of Social Work at Mexico City. She has a Master Degree in
Human Rights and Democracy from FLACSO-Mexico. Sister Consuelo is
one of the founders of Citizens for Human Rights Support, Civil
Organization (Cuidadanos en Apoyo a los Derechos Humanos, A.C. – CADHAC-). She has been the
head of CADHAC for 20 years.
Since 2010, she has been the President of Mexican Religious Conference, at the Monterrey
Archdioceses.
Consuelo Morales has been member of several citizen counsels, such as: Vertebra organization, the
Permanent Counsel from the Episcopal of Social Pastoral Commission, the Humanitas Group
Counsel, the Citizen Counsel of Accountability Commission of Nuevo Leon, the Ethics Committee at
the 33 Hospital at the Mexican Health Care Institute, and the Social Organizations Network in North
Mexico.
In 2010, Sister Consuelo was granted with the Equity and Non-Discrimination National Award that
gives every year the National Counsel to Prevent Discrimination in Mexico. In 2011, she was honored
with the Human Rights Watch’s Alice Des Forges Award, which celebrates the valor of individuals
who put their lives on the line to protect the dignity and rights of others.
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Mr. Ronald Noble
Secretary-General
INTERPOL
The effectiveness and efficiency of INTERPOL as a global entity that
brings together the police services of its 190 member countries is
dependent on its thoroughness, impartiality and responsiveness.
Achieving this is equally dependent on having a dedicated Secretary
General who has the strong support of the Executive Committee,
Chiefs of Police and National Central Bureaus and who continually
seeks to enhance the tools and services INTERPOL delivers to law enforcement worldwide.
Strong support of Executive Committee and National Central Bureaus
First elected on 3 November 2000 by INTERPOL’s General Assembly, Mr. Noble became at the age of
44 the youngest Secretary General in INTERPOL’s history. Following a successful second mandate, he
was re-elected by an overwhelming majority to serve a third five-year term in 2010.
Development of enhanced technical tools for National Central Bureaus
The ability to communicate is fundamental to police work, especially at the international level.
Under Mr. Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL developed the I-24/7 secure global police communications
network, the first of its kind in the world. The network enables National Central Bureaus in all
member countries to communicate in real-time and to access INTERPOL’s tools and services.
Recognizing a critical gap in border security efforts, Mr. Noble spearheaded the creation of the only
global database of stolen and lost travel documents and the MIND/FIND technical tools that put this
and other INTERPOL databases directly into the hands of frontline officers. This has helped to fuel
exponential growth of INTERPOL database use by relevant authorities, so much so that last year
these databases were consulted over 1 billion times. The Organization has further boosted its
investigative and forensic support to member countries through the development of global
databases of suspected terrorists, DNA profiles and fingerprints.
Greater operational support in the face of 21st century crime challenges
The last decade has seen the scale of terrorism expand and many new Internet-facilitated crimes
emerge. INTERPOL has kept pace with these changes through the creation of the 24-hour Command
and Co-ordination Centre and the deployment of more than 170specialized teams to assist member
countries dealing with terrorist incidents, urgent crises, large-scale events and identifying victims of
disasters, notably the Asian tsunami. Operationally stronger, INTERPOL has conducted highly
successful international operations targeting child sex abusers, dangerous fugitives and war
criminals, and has supported major investigations into transnational organized crime groups.
Building bridges
Since becoming Secretary General, Mr. Noble has visited over 165 member countries to hear firsthand the concerns of Heads of NCBs as well as senior government and police officials. He has
overseen a period of unprecedented growth at INTERPOL, with close to 90 nationalities represented
at the General Secretariat and offices worldwide. Within the last decade, the Organization has
opened additional Regional Bureaus and liaison offices at the United Nations and the European
Union, and pursued greater engagement with the African Union, Association of Southeast Asian
Nations, Commonwealth of Independent States, Organization of American States and other regional
bodies. Mr. Noble has reinforced INTERPOL’s legal status and relevance to the UN through the
creation of the Special Notice with the UN Security Council and a greater role for police in
peacekeeping operations.
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Strength in neutrality
Secretary General Noble has demonstrated full commitment to adherence to INTERPOL’s
constitution, in particular to Article 3, which forbids the Organization from undertaking any activity
of a predominantly political, racial, religious or military nature. In recognition of the danger of
shutting out any country in the fight against transnational crime, Mr. Noble made sure all member
countries were connected to INTERPOL’s global police communications network, including countries
which were subject to international sanctions.
Preparing for the road ahead
Looking ahead, INTERPOL will continue to build on the foundation of the last 10 years to ensure that
it is responsive to the needs of police in its member countries. It will endeavor to foster the wider
operability and scope of its databases through innovations such as I-link to benefit more frontline
officers in more locations. It will set the pace in document security innovation through the ongoing
development of the INTERPOL Travel Document to facilitate the crucial work of its officials. Through
more focused strategic planning, the Organization will continue to devise cutting-edge but costefficient solutions to today’s most pressing crime challenges. The creation of the INTERPOL Global
Complex in Singapore –focusing on cybercrime, capacity building and advanced methods for
identification of crimes and criminals –will put the Organization in a strong position to seize
opportunities wherever they may exist.
Law enforcement experience and education
Prior to being elected Secretary General, Mr. Noble oversaw four of the US’s then-eight-largest law
enforcement agencies, including the US Secret Service, the US Customs Service, the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division.
He began his career in law enforcement as a federal prosecutor specializing in organized crime, drug
trafficking, fraud and corruption cases. He obtained a 100 per cent conviction rate on cases that
went to trial. Mr. Noble is also a fully tenured Professor at New York University School of Law. He
earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford Law School and Bachelor of Arts in Economics and
Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire, both in the USA. In addition to his
native tongue, English, Mr. Noble also speaks French, Spanish and German.
Dr. Michael S. Pollanen, (MD, PhD, FRCPath, DMJ (Path), FRCPC)
Chief Forensic Pathologist for Ontario
Founder of Ontario Pathology Service
Director, Center for Forensic Science and Medicine, University of
Toronto
Canada
Michael S. Pollanen (MD, PhD, FRCPath, DMJ (Path), FRCPC) is the Chief
Forensic Pathologist for Ontario (Canada) and founded the Ontario
Forensic Pathology Service in 2009 after a public inquiry revealed
systemic failures in pediatric forensic pathology in the province. He is
also the Founding Program Director of the first Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada
accredited forensic pathology residency training program in Canada and is also the Founding
Director of the Centre for Forensic Science and Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is an
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto and the
inaugural chair for forensic pathology section of the Canadian Association of Pathologists. He has
concentrated his professional efforts in fostering the growth and development of forensic pathology
and medicolegal death investigation as a medical speciality, public service and academic discipline.
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He is also committed to the use of forensic medicine in remedying miscarriages of justice and
sustaining efforts in forensic capacity development in low and middle income countries. This has
included the postgraduate training of forensic pathologists from other countries and international
work in the area of humanitarian forensic science and crimes against humanity. His academic
interests include philosophical and ethical aspects for forensic medicine, traumatic subarachnoid
hemorrhage, postmortem artefacts and the molecular autopsy. He is a member of the forensic
pathology subspecialty committee of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada and the
forensic advisory board for the International Committee for the Red Cross. He frequently provided
expert witness testimony and is widely consulted in controversial cases in Canada and abroad and is
on the editorial board of several peer reviewed journals in the area of forensic medicine.
Mr. Manoj Sachdea
Trial Lawyer Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Court (ICC)
In 2008 Manoj Sachdeva joined the International Criminal Court,
within the Office of the Prosecutor as a Trial Lawyer. Within this time,
he oversaw and managed the first trial at the ICC; Prosecutor v
Thomas Lubanga, as de-facto co-lead counsel, which ran from January
2009 through to March 2012. He was also part of the Trial Team for
the Darfur Situation.
Currently, Manoj is a senior member of the Prosecution team in the case; Prosecutor v Uhuru
Kenyatta.
From 2001 to 2008, Manoj worked as Legal Officer and Trial Attorney at the ICTY and participated,
inter alia, in the prosecution of Stanislav Galic, Sefer Halilovic, Dragomir Milosevic, and Milan
Milutinovic. The prosecutions of General Galic and his successor Dragomir Milosevic for the
atrocities committed against civilians during the four year siege of Sarajevo were particularly
significant. The Galic case was a landmark judgement in international law as it was the first time the
crime of terror was charged and upheld at trial and appeal.
Prior to joining the ICTY, Manoj worked in the field as a Regional Chief of Human Rights with the
United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina and as a Protection Officer with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1996 to 2000).
Professor Jeremy Sarkin
Member of United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary
Disappearances (UNWGEID)
ICMP Conference Rapporteur
Jeremy Sarkin, of South Africa, has undergraduate and postgraduate law
degrees from South Africa, a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School
and a Doctor of Laws degree on comparative and international law. He
is admitted to practice as attorney in the USA and South Africa. He is an
Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
He is a member, and was Chairperson-Rapporteur (2009-2012), of the
United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. He was elected to the
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Working Group in 2008 by the Human Rights Council. He served as an acting judge in 2002 and 2003
in South Africa. He served as National Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of South Africa
from 1994-1998. He is a member of various journal editorial boards, including Human Rights
Quarterly, Law, Democracy, and Development, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse;
International Review of Criminal Law. His recent books are "Germany's Genocide of the Herero"
(2011); Reparations for Colonial Genocide (2009); Human Rights in African Prisons (2008);
Reconciliation in Divided Societies (2007); Carrots and Sticks: The TRC and the South African
Amnesty Process (2004); The Administration of Justice: Comparative Perspectives (co-editor) (2004);
Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights - An Appraisal of Current International and European
Developments (2002); Resolving the Tensions Between Crime and Human Rights: European and
South African Perspectives (2002); The Principle of Equality (2001).
H.E. Mr. Mohammed Shya’a Sabar Hatim Al Sudani
Minister of Human Rights
Iraq
Mohammed Shya’a Sabar Hatim Al Sudani was born in 1970 in
Baghdad. He holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture from Baghdad University and
he spent six years in the Directorate of Maysan Agriculture. Additional
positions include Head of the Section of Kuwait and Ali AL Sharqi
Agriculture Department, Plant Production and Supervising Engineer in
the National Program for researches with FAW organization followed
the UN. In July 2004, after the fall down of the regime he was elected
as a Mayor of Al Amara city where he participated in a worksheet entitled “Decentralization of the
Southern Region” under the supervision of the US Agency for International Development. He also
participated in many workshops on founding and managing an electronic government and most
recently, he was assigned to be the Minister for Human Rights.
Mr. Paul S. Sledzik
Director, Transportation Disaster Assistance Division
National Transportation Safety Board
United States of America
Paul Sledzik is Director of the NTSB’s Transportation Disaster Assistance
Division (TDA), a position he has held since October 2010. Paul
oversees a staff of seven specialists who coordinate family assistance in
all modes of transportation in conjunction with local, state, and federal
agencies, non-governmental agencies, and transportation operators.
Since the office was established in 1996, TDA has responded to over
150 transportation accidents.
Prior to this position, Paul served as the manager of medicolegal operations for the TDA Division for
six years. Before joining the NTSB, he served for six years as the team leader for the Region 3
Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a division of the US Department of Health and
Human Services, where he managed a team of 100 in mass fatality response. During his career, he
participated in the response to over 30 mass fatality events and transportation accidents.
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Trained as a forensic anthropologist, Paul has served as a consultant and advisor to several federal
and non-governmental agencies on issues of human identification and disaster response. He is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and his scientific articles have appeared in
professional journals and textbooks.
Dr. Pongruk Sribanditmongkol, MD. Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University
Thailand
Dr. Pongruk MD graduated from Chiang Mai Medical School and
received a Ph.D. in Toxicology from The Ohio State University, in USA.
He started his career as an instructor in the Forensic Medicine
Department, The Faculty of Medicine at Chiang Mai University. In
1995, he was appointed Head of The Forensic Medicine Department.
He was also appointed as Associate Dean for Student Affairs and
Education, and as a consequence was also appointed Associate Dean for The Planning and Personnel
section. He was also appointed Associate Dean for Research, at the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai
University, and later the Director, Medical Center of Excellence at The Faculty of Medicine, Chiang
Mai University. Presently, he is Vice President for Planning and Development, Chiang Mai University.
Two days after the tsunami that destroyed much of the Southern Thailand in 2004, Dr. Pongruk
headed the Forensic Team from Chiang Mai University to assist with the victim identification in the
worst affected region of Khao Lak, in Pang Nga Province. Subsequently, The Ministry of Public
Health of Thailand invited Dr. Pongruk to be the co-coordinator between Thai Forensic teams and
The International DVI teams. He also took up the position as a member of Tsunami Victim
Identification Subcommittee.
Dr. Pongruk and his colleagues received a research grant from the National Health Foundation of
Thailand to conduct a research on the information and experience gained from the Tsunami and to
review Mass Fatality Management (MFM) Systems in many countries, enabling them to provide
recommendations on the subject of MFM in Thailand to the Government. Reviewing the newly
acquired data, a book on ‘Mass Fatality Management’ in Thai, was written by Dr. Pongruk and his
colleagues. He has also been involved in further Mass Fatality incidences that have occurred in
Chiang Mai and other provinces in the Northern Region of Thailand.
Mr. Nik Steinberg
Senior Researcher
Americas Division
Human Rights Watch
United States of America
Nik Steinberg is the senior researcher for Mexico in Human Rights
Watch's Americas Division. He is the author of the 2013 report,
Mexico’s Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Crisis Ignored, which
documented widespread disappearances committed by security
forces and organized crime in Mexico’s “war on drugs,” virtually
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none of which have been adequately investigated. Steinberg’s previous report, Neither Rights Nor
Security, documented killings, torture, and “disappearances” by soldiers and police in Mexico’s
counternarcotics operations.
Steinberg has testified on human rights abuses before the US Congress, Mexico’s Congress, and the
German Parliament. His writing on Latin America has been published in the New York Review of
Books, the Washington Post, and the Nation, among other publications.
He is a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Dartmouth College.
Dr. Eric Stover
Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center University of Berkley
United States of America
Eric Stover is the Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and an
Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a
former executive director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and a
founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which
received the Nobel Prize in 1997.
For the past thirty-three years, Stover has investigated war crimes and human rights abuses in over
twenty countries. In the early 1990s, he served as an “Expert on Mission” on several medico-legal
investigations conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for
Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Stover has published six books. His most recent books are The
Guántanamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Interrogation and Detention Practices (with
Laurel Fletcher) and The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague. He is
currently co-authoring a book on the pursuit of war crimes suspects from Nuremberg to Post-9/11.
His articles and photographs have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, New
England Journal of Medicine, International Review of the Red Cross, New York Times, Washington
Post, Lost Angeles Times, Science, International Herald Tribune and other journals and media
outlets.
Mr. David Tolbert
President
International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
David Tolbert is president of the International Center for
Transitional Justice (ICTJ), a global human rights organization.
ICTJ works to help societies in transition address legacies of
massive human rights violations and build civic trust in state
institutions as protectors of human rights. In the aftermath of
mass atrocity and repression, we assist institutions and civil
society groups – the people who are driving and shaping change in their societies – in considering
measures to provide truth, accountability, and redress for past abuses. We do this by providing
technical expertise and knowledge of relevant comparative experiences in transitional justice from
across the globe.
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Mr. Tolbert is a leading expert on international criminal justice, humanitarian law, and the
International Criminal Court (ICC). Previously, he served as registrar of the Special Tribunal for
Lebanon and assistant secretary-general and special expert to the UN Secretary-General on UN
Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. From 2004 to 2008, he served as deputy chief prosecutor of
the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Mr. Tolbert also has held the
positions of deputy registrar; chef de cabinet to ICTY President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald; and senior
legal adviser, Registry—serving a total of nine years at the ICTY. He also represented the ICTY in
discussions leading up to the creation of the ICC and served as an expert to the ICC’s Preparatory
Committee.
From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Tolbert held the position of executive director of the American Bar
Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, which operates rule-of-law development
programs in Eastern Europe and former Soviet states. He also served as chief of the General Legal
Division of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in
Vienna and Gaza.
From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Tolbert was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace
and a member of the American Society of International Law’s Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the
ICC. He taught international law and human rights in the United Kingdom and started his career as a
lawyer in the United States. Mr. Tolbert has written extensively on international justice and human
rights, including in the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. He
earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Furman University, his J.D. from the University of North
Carolina, and his LL. M. with distinction from the University of Nottingham.
Ambassador William Lacy Swing
Director-General,
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
On 18 June 2008, Ambassador William Lacy Swing of the United States was
elected as the Director General of the International Organization for
Migration (IOM). He assumed his post on 1 October 2008. On 14 June
2013, he was re-elected by acclamation for a second term to be the
Director General of the IOM (1 October 2013 – 30 September 2018).
From May 2003 till January 2008, as UN Special Representative of the
Secretary-General (SRSG) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
Ambassador Swing successfully led all facets of the largest UN peacekeeping operation in history.
Before his appointment to the DRC and since November 2001, Ambassador Swing was the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara and Chief of Mission, United Nations
Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
William Lacy Swing was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the Department of State,
(USA). His diplomatic career has spanned some forty years including five postings as Ambassador to
African countries – South Africa, Nigeria, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ex-Zaire),
and the former People’s Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville).
William Lacy Swing was named Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa in 1989, shortly before
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. The posting was a culminating experience for William Lacy
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Swing, who began his diplomatic career twenty-six years before in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1963
to 1966. As a Fellow at Harvard University from 1976 to 1977, William Lacy Swing published a
monograph, U.S. African Policy and the Case of South Africa: Dilemmas and Priorities. Mr. Swing was
Deputy Director for Central African Affairs and Country Officer for Zaire at the Department of State,
1977-79. He was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of the Congo 1979-1981 and Ambassador to
Liberia, 1981-85. Between 1985-89, he occupied senior positions in the Department of State,
Washington, DC. In 1992, William Lacy Swing became Ambassador to Nigeria, and from 1993-98,
served as Ambassador to Haiti.
William Lacy Swing was born in 1934 in Lexington, North Carolina. He graduated from Catawba
College (BA 1956) in North Carolina, and Yale University (BD, 1960) and did postgraduate studies at
Tuebingen University, Germany. On 26 June 2012, Ambassador Swing received the American Foreign
Service Association Award for Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy.
Dr. Ewa Tabeau
Senior Researcher
Agricultural Economics Institute - Wageningen UR
Formerly Head of Demographics, International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Between 2000 and 2011, Dr. Ewa Tabeau led the demographics section
at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, with the major responsibility of
producing victims information and statistics to the ICTY trials. Large
information systems encompassing complex individual-level sources
were established and used in the section’s work. Dr. Tabeau authored about 40 demographic
experts reports on victims of the Yugoslav wars and testified numerous times as an expert witness
before the Tribunal’s Trial Chambers including the highest profile cases, such as Slobodan Milosevic,
Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Vojislav Seselj, generals Stanislav Galic and Dragomir Milosevic,
Vidoje Blagojevic and Dragan Obremovic, Vujadin Popovic et al., Zdravko Tolimir, and many others.
Several judgments made references to the expert reports she produced.
Dr. Ewa Tabeau has the MSC degree in economics, the field of statistics and econometrics, and PhD
in mathematical demography from the Economic University in Warsaw. In September 2011, she
joined as a senior researcher the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, Institute for
Agricultural Economics (LEI-WUR). She specializes in research on global food and nutrition security
and bio-economy in Europe, and coordinates prestigious and large international EC projects,
involving more than 20 partners from many countries of the world.
Ewa Tabeau is Polish from origin, Dutch by migration, living together with her family for about 22
years in The Hague.
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Mr. Andreas Wigger
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Andreas Wigger was born in 1956 in Switzerland. He holds a MA in Theology
and a MSc in Development Management.
Since 1985, he has worked as a Delegate for the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC). He was posted in Israel and the occupied/autonomous
Palestinian territories, in Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and has visited
prisoners of war, civilian internees and other persons deprived of freedom in
most of the countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia. He has also carried out
and supervised Protection activities of civilians, including restoring family links and the search for
missing persons in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and South Asia. Since 2008, he is Head of
Central Tracing Agency and Protection Division at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva.
Dr. Radwan Ziadeh
Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies
He is the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights
Studies in Syria and co-founder and executive director of the Syrian
Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the
managing editor of the Transitional Justice in the Arab World Project
and Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in
Washington D.C.
Since the Syrian uprising started in March 15, 2011 he has been involved
in documenting all the human rights violations and testifying at the UN
Human rights council in Geneva.
Before that he was Reagan–Fascell Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy (NED) at
Washington D.C, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia
University in New York City, he was also a Visiting Fellow at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of
International Affairs) in London and a visiting scholar at Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard
University (2008–2009). In 2007–2008 he was a Senior Fellow at United States Institute of Peace
(USIP) in Washington, D.C.
In 2004 he named as best political scientist researcher in the Arab world by Jordan’s Abdulhameed
Shoman Foundation; in 2009 he was awarded the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Academic
Freedom award in Boston; and in 2010 he was awarded the Democracy Courage Tributes award on
behave of the Human Rights movement in Syria by the World Movement for Democracy at JakartaIndonesia.
His most recent book is Power and Policy in Syria: Intelligence Services, Foreign Relations and
Democracy in the Modern Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2011).
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