Profile

Before joining the Institute in 1997, was representative of Amnesty International to the United Nations in New York. His current research relates to the role of non-state actors in international law and related questions in human rights and humanitarian law. He has worked as Special Adviser on Corporate Responsibility to High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative to the UN S-G in Iraq. His publications include International Human Rights Lexicon, with Susan Marks (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Human Rights Obligations of Non-state Actors (Oxford University Press, 2006).