International Co-Prosecutor

International Co-Investigating Judge

International Pre-Trial Chamber Judges

International Trial Court Chamber Judges

International Supreme Chamber Judges

Head of Defence Support Section

Robert Petit (Canada) :Mr. Petit has significant experience in international criminal law. He served as a Legal Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, 1996-1999; Regional Legal Advisor United Nations Mission in Kosovo in Mitrovica, Kosovo from 1999-2000; Prosecutor, Serious Crimes Unit, United Nations Mission of Assistance to East Timor in 2002; Senior Trial Attorney, Office of the Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone from 2003-2004.

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Marcel Lemonde (France) Entered the Judiciary in 1976 and occupied the positions of investigating judge in Annecy then in Lyon, Vice President of the high Court of Lyon, Deputy Director to the National school of the Judiciary, judge in the Court of appeals of Versailles and President of the criminal chamber of the Court of Appeals in Bastia. Since February 2005, he has presided in a penal chamber of the Court of Appeals in Paris. Mr. Lemonde was also President of the French association of investigating judges from 1984 to 1987.

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Katinka Lahuis (Netherlands) is Justice in the criminal section in the Court of Appeal of Leeuwarden. She has worked in the field of criminal law for a number of years, as a law clerk, a Public Prosecutor, a lawyer and as a judge. As a judge she has served as an investigating judge, presiding judge in the criminal law division, the pre-trial division, and in the extradition division. Ms. Lahuis also worked for several years at the Training Centre for the Judiciary in the Netherlands where she developed training programmes for the Dutch Judiciary. She has also worked as an advisor, training people in other countries about how to improve independence and judicial integrity.

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Rowan Downing QC (Australia) Mr. Downing holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws and is a senior Australian lawyer. He has been a judge of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Vanuatu, dealing mainly with criminal law. And he has presided over a number of Australian Government Tribunals. In addition, Mr. Downing has been involved in the provision of training to the Australian Defence Force in respect of war crimes law and the laws of warfare. He has also appeared as an advocate in human rights cases and provides advice to a number of governments concerning rights of woman and children.

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Dame Silvia Cartwright (New Zealand): Dame Silvia was born in Dunedin. She graduated with a LLB from Otago University in 1967. After several years in private practice, she embarked on a judicial career which culminated in her appointment to the High Court - the first woman in New Zealand to achieve this. Internationally, Dame Silvia contributed as a member of the United Nations committee monitoring compliance with the United Nations Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 and Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2001.

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Mr. Motoo Noguchi (Japan) is a professor at UNAFEI (United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders) in Tokyo, serving concurrently as senior attorney at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Legal Affairs Bureau. He started his career as public prosecutor at the Ministry of Justice in 1985 and has accumulated considerable experience in criminal investigations and trials. He also has long experience in the provision of legal technical assistance for developing countries in Asia including Cambodia.

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Mr. Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe (Sri Lanka) serves as a senior Presiding Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Prior to that he was President of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka. Mr. Jayasinghe's extensive career includes 22 years in the Attorney General’s Department mostly in criminal work. In that Department he served as Senior State Counsel and was eventually elevated to Deputy Solicitor General in 1994.Mr. Jayasinghe was awarded Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB,) from the University of Colombo. He was a visiting scholar at University of Illinois, Chicago. In 1996, he was awarded a Diploma in Human Rights by University of Lund, Sweden.

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Agnieszka Klonowiecka-Milart (Poland) was the most senior international judge in the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. She was currently appointed to the Supreme Court of Kosovo where, together with members of the national judiciary, she adjudicates war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, terrorism and other serious crimes. She was several times seconded to the Department of International Cooperation and European Law in the Polish Ministry of Justice, where she participated in the law revision and law reform for conformity with international standards, mainly those of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Union.

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Richard J. Rogers (United Kingdom) is the Officer-in-Charge of the Defence Support Section at the ECCC. Richard has worked in the field of international criminal law since 1998. Initially he served for four years in the Trial and Appeals Chambers of the ICTR and ICTY. He then moved to Kosovo as Chief of the OSCE's Legal System Monitoring Section, where he monitored the UN administered war crimes trials. Before joining the ECCC, he worked as a consultant at the Center for Social Development on the Court Watch Project; at the State Court of BiH (in OKO) advising defence lawyers in a genocide case; and at OSJI where he drafted a report on challenges for the defence at the ECCC. Prior to his international work, Richard practiced as a defence lawyer in London and as an attorney in California. He is currently a non-executive Director of International Criminal Law Services Foundation.

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