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		Robert Archer is Executive Director of the International Council on Human Rights Policy (Geneva) since 1997. Previously, he set up a Policy Programme for Christian Aid (London), where he served as Senior Policy Adviser until 1997 on aid policy and governance and development issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. He worked in the publishing and bookshop industry (in Paris) and has written or edited books on cultural and political issues in Madagascar and South Africa and on migrant workers in the Philippines.
		Heather Grady is the Director of Policy and Partnerships for Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, founded by Mary Robinson in 2002. She is involved in programs on Trade and Decent Work, Corporate Responsibility and Women"s Leadership. She also managed development and humanitarian programs in East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She has authored books and articles on international development and human rights
		Fateh Azzam is Regional Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights for the Middle East (Lebanon). He was Lecturer in Political Science and Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program, American University in Cairo and a Ford Foundation Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa in Cairo. Fateh has published widely in Arabic and English in the fields of human rights and theater. He was the Director of the Nuzha - El-Hakawati Theatre in East Jerusalem and spent several years teaching, directing and acting with theatre groups in the U.S. and the Middle East.
		Roshmi Goswami is a Program Officer at The Ford Foundation office in New Delhi which covers India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The specific focus of her programming has been women’s human rights. She is a leading member of the South Asian women’s rights movement and a prominent voice on issues of peace, armed conflict and gender justice. She played a pivotal role in the mobilization of women in her region for the World Conference on Women in Beijing. She founded the North East Network, and was a recipient of a Mac Arthur Fellowship in 1996. She was the co-coordinator of the South Asian CEDAW Monitoring Network study on women and armed conflict situations for IWRAW–Asia Pacific.
		Felipe Gonzalez, is Commissioner and Special Rapporteur on Migrants at the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (Chile). He is a Professor of international and constitutional law at Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile where he founded and directed the University’s Human Rights Center. Felipe is a Lecturer in various academic centers in the US and Europe. He is currently on leave from his post at Diego Portales University. He teaches at Carlos III University in Madrid.
		Itziar Ruiz-Giménez is the President of the Spanish Section of Amnesty International. She is a Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has researched on governance in African states, armed conflicts, human rights, humanitarian intervention and development cooperation, gender and migration issues. She is the author of two books on international cooperation and humanitarian aid and has published extensively in books and journals.
		Conor Gearty is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at London School of Economics, LSE.His academic research focuses primarily on civil liberties, terrorism and human rights. These issues have risen to the top of the political as well as the scholarly agenda. He has been involved in influencing public debate on these themes and has produced quite a large journalistic output, writing a regular column for The Tablet, literary and political journals like The London Review of Books, Prospect and Renewal. In recent years he has explored human rights law more generally writing, among others Principles of Human Rights Adjudication (2004) and Can Human Rights Survive? (2006). His most recent publication is Civil Liberties (2007)
		Irene Khan is Secretary General of Amnesty International since 2001. She has led AI’s process of institutional renewal to address the complex nature of contemporary human rights violations and tackle global issues. Previously, Irene joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1980, working in a variety of positions within UNHCR, including Senior Executive Officer to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, head of the UNHCR team in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during the Kosovo crisis in 1999 and was appointed Deputy Director of International Protection in the same year. Irene studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School, specialising in public international law and human rights. Among several academic awards, she received the Pilkington "Woman of the Year" Award in 2002.
		Miloon Kothari is a prominent international voice on human rights, especially economic, social and cultural rights. Mr. Kothari is an outspoken critic of the countries and institutions that see the neo-liberal and military/security policies as a means to achieving democracy and human rights. Formerly UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (2000-2008), he is also the convener of the Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights Network and a founding member of the International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and Investment (INCHRITI). He has also been actively involved in works related to the human rights dimension on poverty, water and sanitation. In his work as Rapporteur he has also focused on strategies to ensure respect for human rights in post-conflict and post-disaster situations.