He is also currently Honorary Secretary of the International Executive Committee of
the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association.
Judge Margarette May Macaulay (Jamaica) is an Attorney-at-Law in private practice
in Kingston, Jamaica with over 40 years’ experience. She is also a Commissioner of
the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and its current President. The
Commission’s mandate encompasses all the Organisation of American States in the
Americas.
She is the Commission’s Thematic Rapporteur on Women’s Rights and the Thematic
Rapporteur on the Rights of Afro-Descendants and against Racial Discrimination, as
well as the Country Rapporteur for six countries in the Americas.
She was formerly a Lecturer of Law-Constitutional, Company, Trusts, Commercial
and Real Property Laws in Jamaica for three years but then decided to concentrate
on her private practice. She was later an Adjunct Professor on Women’s Rights in
the Inter-American System of Human Rights at UPEACE in Costa Rica and at the
American University in Washington DC, United States of America.
She has presented countless papers at international, regional and national
conferences on human rights on a myriad of human rights issues and has written and
is still writing weekly in both main national daily newspapers in Jamaica, which
number in the thousands articles on legal rights and available remedies. She is an
honouree and is listed for her contribution to women’s human rights and for the
elaboration of the Elements of Crime and the Rules of Evidence and Procedure of
the International Court Criminal Court, on the Legacy Wall at the United Nations
Building in New York and will be so listed on the permanent wall in the International
Criminal Court’s new building in The Hague.
Justice Willy Munyoki Mutunga (Kenya) is the former Chief Justice & President of
the Supreme Court of Kenya. He has been a law lecturer, a leader in the human
rights and other social and political movements in Kenya and East Africa. Before
joining the Judiciary in 2011 he served as the Regional Representative of the Ford
Foundation's Eastern Africa Office. Justice Mutunga has published books, scholarly
articles, and given lecturers in various countries on the transformation of judiciaries
in the Global South. Justice Mutunga remains engaged in two critical issues of
developing progressive jurisprudence for Africa; and the growth of Africa's
alternative political leaderships.
Advocate Mary-Ann Ooi Suan Kim (Malaysia) is a Barrister, Commissioner for Oaths,
Certified Compliance Professional, Entrepreneur and is Principal of O S Kim &
Associates where Kim provides legal solutions on corporate, commercial and family
law. Kim is featured as one of the LexisNexis Asia PG Corporate Experts in Company
Law and is the Founder of Builders Biomass, an integrated bioenergy solutions
provider modelled upon the 3Ps of sustainability. Recognition came in the form of
awards as Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur in STEM in the ASEAN Summit 2016,
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