Acting Director of the Africa Division, Human Rights Watch

Georgette Gagnon is the Acting Director of the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch. Before joining Human Rights Watch she served with the United Nations and other international organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda and has worked closely with the Canadian International Development Agency on issues of human rights and the rule of law.

Vice President for Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group

Fabienne Hara serves as Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at Crisis Group. Prior to her current post, she was the Deputy Chief of Political Affairs at the United Nations Mission in Sudan.

Human Rights Fellow, Columbia University

Otto Saki is a Zimbabwean lawyer and former Acting Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. An experienced defender of civil society activists in the Zimbabwean courts, he is currently a Human Rights Fellow at Columbia University.