Speakers, Panelists And Moderators In Alphabetical Order

BEATRIZ AFFONSO (BRAZIL)
Director of the Brazil Program at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).
Mrs. Affonso received her master's degree in political science from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. She began her career as a human rights activist as a researcher at the University of São Paulo’s Nucleus of Violence Studies (NEV).  From 1996 to 2002 she served as the executive secretary of the Teitônio Vilela commission of inquiry, and later as the executive secretary of the Municipal Human Rights Commission in São Paulo. Mrs. Affonso played a critical role in designing state and federal human rights programs in Brazil.

BELISÁRIO DOS SANTOS JUNIOR (BRAZIL)
President of the Latin American Lawyer’s Association for Human Rights. 
Belisário dos Santos holds a bachelor’s degree from the Universidade de São Paulo Law School of and a master’s degree in Special Criminal Legislation from FaDUSP. From 1995 to 2000, Dos Santos served as São Paulo’s Secretary of Justice and Defense of Citizenship. He has been a member of the Commission on Justice and Peace since 1992, and is currently a member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Brazilian Bar Association. During Brazil’s military dictatorship, Dos Santos represented victims of politically-motivated imprisonment.

BENJAMÍN CUÉLLAR (EL SALVADOR)
Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Central America "José Simeón Cañas" in El Salvador. 
Benjamín Cuéllar holds a Social Sciences degree from the Universidad de El Salvador and Political Science and Public Administration degrees from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico. He is a member of CEJI’s Board of Directors. Cuéllar helped to set up El Salvador’s International Court for Restorative Justice.

CATALINA BOTERO (COLOMBIA)
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) since July 2008. 
Before assuming the position of Special Rapporteur, Dr. Botero Marino was an Auxiliary Magistrate and Acting Magistrate at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. Previously she held a number of posts, including: adviser to the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation of Colombia; National Director of the Office for the Promotion of Human Rights in the Office of the Ombudsman of Colombia, Director of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the non-governmental organization Fundación Social, and professor and researcher at the law school of the Universidad de los Andes and other universities in Colombia and abroad. She is the author of several books and essays published in various countries on freedom of expression, constitutional law, international criminal law and transitional justice. She received her law degree in 1988 from the Universidad de los Andes and completed postgraduate studies there, as well as in Madrid, Spain, at Universidad Complutense, Universidad Carlos III, and the Center for Constitutional Studies.

CRISTIÁN CORREA (CHILE)
Senior Associate with the Reparative Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice. 
Mr. Correa assists victims’ groups, civil society organizations and governments in defining and implementing reparations policies in various settings, including Peru, East Timor, Colombia, Nepal, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Previously, he was Legal Advisor to the Commission for Human Rights Policies of the Presidency of the Republic of Chile. He also served as the Secretary of the Presidential Commission for Political Imprisonment and Torture (known as the Valech Commission). Mr. Correa holds a law degree from the Pontificate Catholic University of Chile and a M.A. in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

DAVID TOLBERT (UNITED STATES)
David Tolbert was appointed president of the International Center for Transitional Justice on March 2, 2010.
Previously he served as assistant secretary-general of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and prior to that was assistant secretary-general and special expert to the United Nations secretary-general on United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials.  From 2004 to 2008 Mr. Tolbert served as deputy chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He had previously been the deputy registrar of the ICTY and at an earlier time served at the ICTY as chef de cabinet to President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald and Senior Legal Adviser, Registry, serving a total of 9 years at the ICTY.  From 2000 to 2003 Mr. Tolbert held the position of executive director of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, which manages rule-of-law development programs throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also held the position of chief, General Legal Division of the United Nations Relief Works Agency in Vienna, Austria, and Gaza. In addition Mr. Tolbert taught international law and human rights at the post-graduate level in the United Kingdom and practiced law for many years in the United States.

DEISY VENTURA (BRAZIL)
Professor of International Law and President of the International Cooperation Committee of the Institute of International Relations at the Universidade de São Paulo (IRI-USP). 
Deisy Ventura holds a PhD in International Law and a master’s degree in Social and European Law from the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne); and a degree in Law and a master’s degree in Latin American Integration from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. In 2007, Ventura  held the Simon Bolivar Chair at the Institute of Higher Studies of Latin America of the University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne-Nouvelle) and was visiting professor at Sciences-Po Paris (Ibero-American Cycle of Poitiers. In 2010, she participated in the Global South Scholar in Residence program at  the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID, Geneva). Ventura served as legal advisor to the Mercosur Secretariat (Montevideo, 2003-2006), and was associate professor and Dean of Student Affairs at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Ventura is currently Deputy Director of the Center for Research in Sanitary Law at the Universidade de São Paulo (CPEDISA-USP). She coordinates the university’s “Internationalization of Law and Transition Justice” study group and global education outreach project.

EDSON TELES (BRAZIL)
Professor of Philosophy, faculty member of the Philosophy Department of Unifesp.
Edson Teles holds a doctorate degree from the USP with a dissertation on political memory in democracies with an authoritarian history. He also lectured at the UNIBAN masters course on adolescents and criminality. Teles was Brazil’s youngest political prisoner – only two years old when he was arrested with members of his family. In 2007, Teles and his family members successfully sued Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra for torture.

EDUARDO GONZALEZ (PERU)
Eduardo Gonzalez is a sociologist and the director of the Truth and Memory Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice.  
He advises truth commissions, which are becoming an increasingly common phenomenon around the world, particularly in post-conflict societies. Before joining ICTJ, he helped organize and carry out the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Previously, he worked as an advocate for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. In addition to book chapters and articles on human rights and truth commissions, he is the author of a Spanish-language blog, La Torre de Marfil.

ELIZABETH LIRA (CHILE)
Psychologist, professor and researcher at the Center for Ethics at the Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. 
She is currently researching reconciliation and the resistance of memory in Chile, as well as supervising clinical teams working with victims of domestic violence and other abuses.  Since 1977, Professor Lira has focused mainly on providing mental health services, conducting research in the field of psychology, as well as national and international advocacy.  Professor Lira has co-authored two books with San Diego State University Professor Brian Loveman related broadly to reconciliation and written other books related to therapy and the memory of victims of human rights violations.

GILDA PEREIRA DE CARVALHO (BRAZIL)
Federal Prosecutor, Federal Prosecutor’s Office for the Rights of Citizens. 
Gilda Pereira de Carvalho’s administration has prioritized the issues of : Children and Youth; Prison System; Racial Discrimination; Mental Health; and Social Protection of the Elderly. As a federal prosecutor she served the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) on public and private lawsuits. Carvalho was vice-president of the National Association of Federal Prosecutors; a member of the Second Chamber for Coordination and Revision – Criminal Law and Oversight of Police Activity; a MPF representative in the First Group of the Superior Court of Justice; and a MPF representative at the Fifth Group of the Superior Court of Justice. Between 2004 and 2008, she served as the coordinator of the Fifth Chamber for Coordination and Revision – Public and Social Assets. Carvalho was elected as a member of the MPF High Council by the College of Prosecutors in 2000 and is currently serving her fourth term.

GUSTAVO GALLÓN GIRALDO (COLOMBIA)
Director of Colombian Commission of Jurists. 
Gustavo Gallón Giraldo holds a doctorate in Political Sociology from the School of High Studies in Social Sciences of Paris, and a masters degree in Law from the University of Paris. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists, and was previously an ad hoc judge for the Constitutional Court of Colombia. From 1999 to 2002, Giraldo served as Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights for Equatorial Guinea.  In 1991, he was appointed as an independent expert on the ‘Committee for Overcoming Violence’ created by Colombian to draft a new military code. Giraldo has received numerous awards for his services to human rights, including the International Award of the Human Rights Watch in 1989 for monitoring human rights and the International Award of the Comité de Abogados por los Derechos Humanos da Colômbia in 1997.

GUSTAVO MEOÑO BRENNER (GUATEMALA)
Director of the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala. 
As an activist, Mr. Meoño was persecuted by the military government of Guatemala when he was 17 years old. He began to work with Guatemalan refugee organizations in Mexico in 1987 and negotiated the return of 20,000 indigenous people to Guatemala. For 11 years he served as director of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation, whose purpose is to fight impunity and propose lawsuits against the perpetrators of genocide in Guatemala. Currently, Meoño is the director of the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala, which collects information and proof to be used in legal proceedings against employees of military governments.

HELIO BICUDO (BRAZIL)
Lawyer and journalist.
Helio Bicudo was one of the founding members of the Commission on Justice and Peace of São Paulo in 1972, and member of the Teotônio Vilela Commission on Human Rights. He chaired the Commission of Human Rights of the House of Representatives in 1996, the Municipal Commission on Human Rights in 2002, the Santo Dias Center for Human Rights in 1998, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS in 2000. He is currently the Brazilian delegate to the World Organization against Torture and is a member of the Abrinq Foundation for the Rights of Children.

JAIME ANTUNES (BRAZIL)
General Director of the National Archive of Rio de Janeiro.
Jaime Antunes holds an archival science degree and a history teaching license. He is coordinator of Memória Reveladas. He has chaired the National Archives Council (CONARQ) since 1994. Mr. Atunes is president of the Portugal-Brazil Commission on the Safe-keeping and Dissemination of Documental Heritage–Brazilian Chapter since 1996 and in 2008 he took over the presidency of the Latin-American Archive Association.

JAVIER CIURLIZZA (PERU)
Bogotá-based Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Program since January 2011.
As Program Director, Javier oversees projects covering Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Haiti and Guatemala. He has a master's degree from the University of Warwick, England. In addition, he was the Colombia and Americas Program Director at the International Center for Transitional Justice (2007-2010); Director of the Research Institute on Human Rights at the Catholic University of Peru (2004-2007); Special Legal Advisor at the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2006); Executive Director of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001-2003); Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Justice of Peru (2000-2001) and Secretary General of the Andean Commission of Jurists (1995-2000).

JOSÉ CARLOS MOREIRA DA SILVA FILHO (BRAZIL)
Advisor to the Ministry of Justice’s Amnesty Committee. 
He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Brasília, a master’s degree from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and a doctorate degree in law from the Federal University of Paraná. He is presently professor of criminal sciences at the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

JUAN ALFONSO FAROPPA FONTANA (URUGUAY)
Associate Professor of the Human Rights Chair at the University of the Republic Law School. 
He holds a doctorate degree in law and social science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. He was the deputy chief of staff of Uruguay between 2005 and 2007. He was a member of the UN official missions to El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia and Honduras. He was a consultant for UNICEF, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He was tasked with drafting a report on citizen security and human rights by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He has published extensively on the topic of human rights and citizen security.

JUAN E. MÉNDEZ (ARGENTINA)
UN Special Rapporteur against Torture. Mr. Mendez is a visiting professor at the Washington College of Law (United States). Throughout his professional career, he has become known for his role as a lawyer in the struggle for justice for victims of torture and other serious human rights violations that occurred during Argentina’s military dictatorship. He was also the president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and served as Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the UN on the Prevention of Genocide between 2004 and 2007. As president of the International Center for Transitional Justice (2004-2007), he led important initiatives in the field of gender violence.

MARCELO TORELLY (BRAZIL)
Head of the Historical Memory of the Ministry of Justice’s Amnesty Commission. 
Mr. Torelly holds a master’s degree in law, state and constitution from the University of Brasilia (2010) and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. He is currently a professor and an advisor for special projects at the Catholic University of Brasilia Law School. At the Ministry of Justice, he is the head of Historical Memory and the national director of the Cooperation Program for International Exchange, Development and Expansion of the Policies for Transitional Justice of the Ministry of Justice’s Amnesty Commission.

MARCO ANTONIO RODRIGUES BARBOSA (BRAZIL)
President of the Special Secretariat on Human Rights Commission on Politically-Motivated Deaths and Disappearances. 
Mr. Barbosa obtained his law degree at the University of São Paulo (1970). He was president of the State Council for the Defense of Individuals (CONDEPE) and president of the Commission for Justice and Peace of São Paulo, of which he is a member.

MARLON WEICHERT (BRAZIL)
Federal Prosecutor for São Paulo State. Mr. Weichert is mostly involved in the area of human rights, particularly in the realms of right to health and transitional justice. He holds a master’s degree in public law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo. He has a diploma degree in sanitation law from the University of Brasília.

MAURICE POLITI (BRAZIL)
Director of the Center for the Preservation of Political Memory. 
Mr. Politi was involved in the student-organized movement against the military regime; he was also involved in providing logistical support to the revolutionary group National Liberation Action (ALN). He was arrested during Bandeirantes Operation (OBAN), which took place in March 1970 and was sentenced to four years in prison. He was expelled from the country in 1975 for being considered stateless. He spent five years in Israel, finally returning to Brazil in 1980, after a general amnesty was declared, at which point his Brazilian citizenship was reinstated. He is involved in the field of human rights and political memory. He was a founder and the first president of the Center for the Preservation of Political Memory and is the director of the Forum for Former Politically-Motivated Arrestees and Persecuted of São Paulo State. He was the coordinator of the Right to Memory and Truth Project of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights, attached to the President’s office.

MELILLO DINIZ DO NASCIMENTO (BRAZIL)
Dean of the Law School of the Catholic University of Brasília. 
He is a lawyer. He holds a master’s degree in law and is a professor of the undergraduate course in law.

PAULO ABRÃO (BRAZIL)
National Justice Secretary and President of the Amnesty Commission. 
Mr. Abrão holds a doctorate degree in law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, a master’s degree in law from Unisinos and has a diploma degree in Human Rights and Democratization Processes from the University of Chile. He is a member of the faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) and is a visiting professor at the graduate law course of the Catholic University of Brasília (UCB). He is advisor to the Reference Center Revealed Memories of the Public Archive of the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of Brazil. He is a member of the Council of Cultural Guidelines of the Resistance Museum of São Paulo.

PRISCILLA HAYNER (UNITED STATES)
Priscilla Hayner is a Senior Advisor to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, in Geneva.  
She was co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, and then director of its Geneva office and its Peace and Justice Program.  She is currently undertaking research on how justice issues are addressed in peace processes, and has published case studies on this topic in relation to Liberia, Sierra Leone, DRC, and Nepal.  Ms. Hayner has also written extensively on official truth-seeking in political transitions, publishing Unspeakable Truths, a comparative study of truth commissions, in 2001; a second edition, covering forty commissions, was released in August 2010.  She was previously a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She received a B.A. from Earlham College and a Masters in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

REGINA MIKI (BRAZIL)
National Secretary for Public Safety. 
Regina Miki is a lawyer with a master’s degree in constitutional law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo and a diploma degree in family and land law and in public safety policies from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. She is a professor at the Institute for Public Safety of the Santo André Foundation/SP and the Law School in Sao Paulo, associate member on leave of the National Council on the Rights of Children and Youth (Conanda). She is a member of the Metropolitan Forum for Public Safety, member of the Intersectorial Committee for Oversight of the National Policy for the Homeless Population and the Committee for the Oversight of PNDH-3, both attached to the President’s Office. She was secretary of Social Defense of Diadema (SP) between 2001 and 2008. During her term, she helped bring the murder rate down 78.61 percent in one of the most violent cities in the state. After stepping down as Deputy Secretary of Conasp, she took over Senasp.

ROSE NOGUEIRA (BRAZIL)
President of the Group Tortura Nunca Mais of São Paulo. 
Rose Nogueira is a journalist and beneficiary of political amnesty law and head of the Journalist’s Union in São Paulo. She was actively involved in the National Liberation Action (ALN) during the dictatorship, was arrested while pregnant and subsequently tortured.

SUELI APARECIDA BELLATO (BRAZIL)
Vice-President and Advisor to the Ministry of Justice’s Committee on Amnesty. 
She is a member of the Nossa Senhora religious congregation-Saint Augustine Canon, she holds a law degree from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University of São Paulo, with an interest in social causes. She has worked with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office on human rights issues, was a legislative advisor and has participated in the lawsuits brought against the murderers of environmentalist Chico Mendes. She is a member of the Brazilian Committee on Justice and Peace of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB).

VICTOR PRADO SALDARRIAGA (PERU)
Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru. 
Mr. Saldarriaga holds a doctorate degree in criminal law from the University of Valencia, Spain (1987). He graduated from law school at the National University of San Marcos in Peru in 1984 and was one of the judges who sentenced former President Fujimori for serious violations to human rights.