People
Board of Directors and Officers
The Board of Directors of the IICI is the governing body of the Institute. It is composed of experts from around the world, and from disciplines relevant to both teaching and conducting investigations into serious violations of international humanitarian law. Military officers, human rights investigators, academics, criminal investigators, and experts in international law have joined forces to create a new approach to the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Bernard O’Donnell ‐ President
Bernard (Bernie) O’Donnell is the President of IICI. Bernie’s career spans more than 40 years working in a wide range of investigation and oversight roles internationally. Concurrently with this role, he is the Chair of the Sanctions (appellate) Panel at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank […]
John Ralston – Vice-President
John Ralston is the Vice-President of IICI. He was the Executive Director of IICI from 2003 to 2016.
William Schabas ‐ Chairman of the Board
William Schabas, Order of Canada, President of IICI, is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds an MA degree in history from the University of Toronto […]
Monica Mächler – Treasurer (IICIF)
Monica Mächler is the Treasurer of IICI Foundation (Netherlands). She is on the board of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd., Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. and Cembra Money Bank Ltd. She is a member of the governing body of the Europa Institut at the University of Zurich, […]
Heather Ryan ‐ Board Member
Heather Ryan is the Open Society Justice Intiative’s representative in Cambodia, monitoring the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge trials). Previously she was the Associate Director of the Global Green Grants Fund in Boulder, Colorado USA, which makes global […]
Colonel Ian Byrne DSM (Retd) – Secretary
Ian Byrne is IICI’s Secretary. He has recently retired after 38 years’ service in the Irish Defence Forces. His extensive career includes a breadth of appointments across the policy, operational, and training environments. The most notable strategic appointments include his most recent as Director of Military […]
Nancy Pemberton ‐ Board Member
Nancy Pemberton is a retired attorney, investigator, and mitigation specialist residing in Northern California. For 30 years, she conducted capital and non-capital investigations throughout the United States and internationally for trial and post-trial stages of litigation. She has been a frequent presenter at continuing legal education […]
Colonel Bernard Markey ‐ Board Member
Bernard Markey is a retired Army Colonel from the Irish Defence Forces. He served as a Military Police Officer both at home in Ireland and overseas. During his career he completed a variety of Military Police courses including the Senior NATO Military Police Officers Course […]
Catherine Cissé van den Muijsenbergh ‐ Board Member
Catherine Cissé van den Muijsenbergh studied literature and international law. She holds an MA degree in international law from the University of Pantheon Sorbonne (Paris I). She worked as a lawyer at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the European Union and the […]
David Tolbert – Board Member
David Tolbert has served on several international tribunals as the Registrar for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; as a Special Expert to the UN Secretary-General on UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials; and as Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the ICTY. He was also the principal […]
Delia Chatoor ‐ Board Member
Delia Chatoor is a former foreign service officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago. She was the Head of the Americas Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and provided guidance on International Law (International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law) […]
Dermot Groome – Board Member
Dermot Groome is a Professor of Law and Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law. Prior to teaching, Groome spent over 11 years as a senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) where he led […]
Kaoru Okuizumi ‐ Board Member
Kaoru Okuizumi is the Deputy Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM). She was previously the Director of the UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict, which was established by the Security Council to assist national […]
Kim Smit – Board Member
Kim Smit is a non-executive director with supervisory board roles in – among others – health care, biotech, supply chain and production of nuclear medical isotopes. Former CFO/member of the Executive Board of Directors at the Leiden University Medical Center and former CFO of a large […]
Patrick D. Robbins – Treasurer (IICI)
Patrick Robbins is the Treasurer of IICI (USA). He is a partner in the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he specialises in criminal and enforcement matters, typically involving transnational violations, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption statutes, money […]
Paula Anderson – Board Member
Paula Anderson is a partner in the Global Litigation and Investigations practice at the international law firm Allen& Overy Shearman and Sterling, where she leads the firm’s US Commercial Litigation practice. Her practice encompasses global investigations, anticorruption, sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance, cross-border disputes, M&A-related […]
People
IICI Staff and Long-Term Consultants
People
Recent IICI Trainers, Mentors and Contributors
- Alexa Koenig
- Brian Nguyen
- Bruce Bursik
- Carrie Comer
- Ceren Fitoz
- Crofton Black
- Danil Cuffe
- Dean Manning
- Emmanuelle Marchand
- Erin Gallagher
- Gabriel Oosthuizen
- Gabriel Shapiro
- Gregory Townsend
- Helena Rodríguez-Bronchú
- Henriette Stratmann
- James Bevan
- James Hyatt
- Julia Korkman
- Koen Kluessien
- Lada Soljan
- Liliana Todorovic-Sudetic
- Lindsay Freeman
- Maggie Andresen
- Marc Garlasco
- Maria Pimentel Biscaia
- Mariana Gutiérrez
- Mark Watson
- MartaValinas
- Max Marcus
- Mike Moulden
- NatashaVicary-Roeder
- Nenna Ndukwe
- Paloma Soria Montanez
- Patricia Viseur Sellers
- Penny Hart
- Philip Trewhitt
- Priya Gopalan
- Ray Murphy
- Rebecca Dempster
- Roy Revie
- Shaun Galloway
- Silvia D'Ascoli
- Stephanie Barbour
- Willie Nugent
- The staff of the IICI are also assisted by a range of expert consultants hired on an as needed basis.
People
Murad Code Project Team
The Murad Code Project's core-team members, other consultants and contributors, organisational partners and donors are listed on the Project website's Team page. Some individual & organisational consultants and partner organisations cannot be named.
People
Council of Advisors
The Council of Advisors is composed of prestigious individuals in the field of international law. The Institute relies upon these volunteers for their expertise and advice.
Richard J. Goldstone
Richard J. Goldstone is a former Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa and a former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 15 August 1994 to September 1996 he served as the Chief Prosecutor of the United […]
Karen Snell
Karen L. Snell graduated from Stanford Law School in 1981. She began her legal career as a litigation associate at the San Francisco law firm Morrison & Foerster. From 1987 to 1989 she worked as a criminal appellate lawyer. In 1989 she joined the Federal […]
Desmond Travers
Desmond Travers is a retired Colonel of the Army of the Irish Defence Forces. His last appointment was as Commandant of its Military College. In a career spanning over forty years, he served in various command and instructional appointments in the Infantry Corps. He was […]