Dr Jill Juma is a Trade Policy Advisor at the Commonwealth Secretariat and Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. Dr Juma graduated from the University of Nairobi, School of Law, with a Second Class Honours (Upper Division). She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights and Conflicts Analysis from the Legon Centre for International Affairs, University of Ghana. In addition, she holds an Msc. International Trade Policy and Trade Law (University of Lund, Sweden & TRAPCA) and a PhD at EUCLID University. She is a Post Graduate Fellow-APORDE, South Africa. She worked at the State Law Office (Attorney- General’s Chambers), Department of Treaties and Agreements where she assisted Senior Government Counsel and Experts in vetting and negotiating local and international documents, agreements and treaties on behalf of Government Ministries and Agencies. She also has experience in policy preparation, analysis and drafting, having also worked as a Research Assistant at Kenya’s Taskforce on Delineation of its Outer Continental Shelf anchored at the Office of the resident (Cabinet Affairs).
Dr Jill Juma is a Trade Policy Advisor at the Commonwealth Secretariat and Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. Dr Juma graduated from the University of Nairobi, School of Law, with a Second Class Honours (Upper Division). She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights and Conflicts Analysis from the Legon Centre for International Affairs, University of Ghana. In addition, she holds an Msc. International Trade Policy and Trade Law (University of Lund, Sweden & TRAPCA) and a PhD at EUCLID University. She is a Post Graduate Fellow-APORDE, South Africa. She worked at the State Law Office (Attorney- General’s Chambers), Department of Treaties and Agreements where she assisted Senior Government Counsel and Experts in vetting and negotiating local and international documents, agreements and treaties on behalf of Government Ministries and Agencies. She also has experience in policy preparation, analysis and drafting, having also worked as a Research Assistant at Kenya’s Taskforce on Delineation of its Outer Continental Shelf anchored at the Office of the resident (Cabinet Affairs).
Tomer Broude is an Associate Professor and Sylvan M. Cohen Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem He has five years of commercial legal practice, and received a doctoral degree from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Broude’s research is in international public law and economic law, particularly WTO and regional trade law, dispute settlement, investment and development, incorporating economic and human rights perspectives. He has taught international law at Tel Aviv University, the University of Toronto, UBC, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS, Bocconi University, Gujarat National Law University, McGill University, Melbourne University, University of Virginia and Fordham Law School.Broude is the author and editor of several books. His articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Journal of World Trade, World Trade Review, Journal of International Economic Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of World Intellectual Property, Goettingen Journal of International Law and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal.
In 2007-2009, he served as co-chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. He is one of the founders of the Society of International Economic Law and sits on its Executive Council. He served on the International Law Association’s Committee on the Law of Sustainable Development. In 2011, following a nomination by the Israeli Government, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body added him to the indicative list of governmental and on governmental panellists to hear WTO disputes. In 2013 he was appointed to the list of Israeli arbitrators under the Israel-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement. He has also worked with the WTO’s Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, training government officials from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia in WTO law. He regularly consults governments, corporations and nongovernmental organizations.
Dr. Jumoke Oduwole is an academic, government advisor, and advocate. She is Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Ease of Doing Business. Until her appointment to this role in August 2019, Jumoke was Senior Special Assistant to the President on Industry, Trade & Investment in the Office of the Vice President. Her team is responsible for Nigeria moving up an unprecedented 39 places in the World Bank’s flagship Doing Business Report over the last three years, among other notable achievements. She is currently on leave of absence from the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Nigeria, where she is a Senior Lecturer. Jumoke is a respected global thought leader in her field. She was the only African nominated onto the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Trade and Investment in 2016 and is a highly sought-after speaker. Prior to her career in academia, Jumoke led a corporate banking unit of the telecommunications sector team in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc’s Corporate Banking Group. She was an investment banker with FCMB Capital Markets Ltd from 2000 to 2003. Jumoke graduated from University of Lagos with a bachelor’s degree in law in 1998 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999. She obtained an LL.M. degree in commercial law from Cambridge University in 2000, where she was a DFID-Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar. In 2007, Jumoke received a master’s degree in International Legal Studies from Stanford University and obtained her doctorate degree in International Trade and Development from Stanford Law School. Jumoke was on the boards of Ecobank Nigeria Plc and Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA), a leading HIV/AIDS advocacy NGO; as well as the Advisory Board of the “Know Your Constitution” Initiative, a civil liberties movement pioneered by a United Nations Young Ambassador for Peace. She is currently a Trustee of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), an Africa-wide think tank which provides an inclusive platform for African youth, and is a Tutu Fellow of the African Leadership Institute.
Jumoke is happily married to Tunde Oduwole and is a proud mother of two children.
In 2007-2009, he served as co-chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. He is one of the founders of the Society of International Economic Law and sits on its Executive Council. He served on the International Law Association’s Committee on the Law of Sustainable Development. In 2011, following a nomination by the Israeli Government, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body added him to the indicative list of governmental and on governmental panellists to hear WTO disputes. In 2013 he was appointed to the list of Israeli arbitrators under the Israel-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement. He has also worked with the WTO’s Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, training government officials from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia in WTO law. He regularly consults governments, corporations and nongovernmental organizations.
Suresh Nanwani is a Professor in Practice, Durham University, School of Government and International Affairs, UK has more than 30 years of development work experience in international organizations including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His work covers governance and accountability, policy formulation, public consultations, human resources, accountability mechanisms, project operations, and law and development. He was formerly Advisor in ADB and Counsel in EBRD. He has a PhD degree in Organization Development from SAIDI Graduate School of OD, Philippines, an LLM degree from University College London, and an LLB degree from the National University of Singapore. He is a Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) Accredited Mediator. Since 2008, he has lectured on international financial institutions, and law and governance in various countries including Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom. He is Honorary Associate Professor in Australian National University; Visiting Professorial Fellow in University of New South Wales; and Honorary Research Fellow in Birkbeck University of London. He has published extensively on international financial institutions, law and development, governance and accountability, Sustainable Development Goals, and Belt and Road Initiative. His latest publications are Covid-19 in the Philippines: Personal Stories (coedited) (Amazon Kindle, 2021) and The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (coedited) (Brill Nijhoff, 2019).
He is:
- Member of Advisory Board of the International Community Law Review, a UK peer-reviewed journal.
- Executive Council Member of Society of International Economic Law, a global organization for academics, practitioners, government officials and students on IEL research, practice and development.
- Member of the Advisory Board of the African International Economic Law Network, a platform for the exchange of ideas on IEL on Africa’s international economic endeavors to be part of the global economy.
- Member of the International Advisory Group of One World Trust, a United Kingdom independent think tank advocating reform in global governance.
Caroline Ncube is a Professor and the current and inaugural holder of the South African Research Chair: Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is also affiliated with the Intellectual Property Unit at UCT. She served as Head of the Department of Commercial Law from 2014 – 2016 and as Deputy Dean, Postgraduate Studies in 2017 and from January – June 2019. Professor Ncube is a member of the African Policy, Research & Advisory Group on STI and of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). She also serves on the the AU Scientific Technical Research Commission ASRIC Taskforce on IP Protection in Joint Research and Collaboration During Outbreaks. She has served as an expert for various institutions including the WIPO, ECA and SADC. She holds a PhD in IP Law from the University of Cape Town, an LLM from the University of Cambridge and an LLB from the University of Zimbabwe. Before joining UCT in 2005, She lectured at the University of Limpopo (formerly University of the North) and the University of Zimbabwe. Prior to that, she practiced briefly as an attorney at Coghlan, Welsh & Guest. She currently teaches Electronic Law and Intellectual Property (IP) Law at postgraduate level. She also supervises masters and PhD candidates, primarily in IP law, but also in other areas of commercial law. Professor Ncube is a member of various academic associations such as the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the South African Association of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law Teachers and Researchers (AIPLITL) and the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa (SLTSA).I am affiliated with the University of Ottawa as an Associate Member, Centre for Law, Technology and Society.
Professor Wagner is Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong. He joined the School of Law in 2018 from Warwick Law School, and has previously worked at the University of Miami. He obtained his law degree in 2002 and a master’s degree in international law in 2005, both from the Faculty of Law at the University of Giessen / Germany. From 2002 to 2005, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg / Germany, during which time he also served as legal counsel for the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York. In 2006, he graduated from Stanford Law School with an LL.M. degree. Professor Wagner subsequently clerked for then-President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Aharon Barak. Starting in 2007, he worked for the Brussels office of WilmerHale. Professor Wagner currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of World Investment and Trade (JWIT) and sits on the advisory boards of the International Journal of Law in Context and the Göttingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL).
He is the Executive Vice-President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and past co-chair of the Junior International Law Scholars Association (JILSA). Professor Wagner has advised international organizations and has presented at academic and professional conferences in the areas of autonomous weapons and international economic law. He also holds an appointment as Visiting Research Fellow at the Mandela Institute at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has held visiting professor positions at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, the Universidad Los Andes in Bogota, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg, the Center for Teaching and Research of WTO Disputes at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and the law faculties at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, the University of Leipzig, the University of Hamburg and the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
Ohio Omiunu is an Associate Professor/Reader in International Economic Law and Deputy Director, Institute for Law, Justice and Society (ILJS) at De Montfort University, Leicester. Ohio received his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Ohio’s PhD thesis explored the evolving role of Nigerian sub-state governments in international economic interactions. Before that, Ohio completed his LLM with a distinction in International Business Law at the University of Hull. Ohio is an Editor of Afronomicslaw.org. Ohio is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Ohio is interested in international economic law broadly conceived. Ohio engages with international economic law from an interdisciplinary perspective, dovetailing into issues of development, international relations and international political economy. Ohio has published on issues relating to the governance of the global economy, particularly the way that sub-national actors (especially constituent units in federal systems) and non-state actors enable or resist economic integration at a regional and global level.
Dr Regis Simo is a Senior Researcher at Mandela Institute, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Before joining Wits, he was a research and teaching fellow at Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He is also a former Marie Curie Fellow (DISSETTLE) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Dr Simo teaches and writes on international economic law, world trade law, law and development, and African regional integration. His work also explores non-economic concerns such as labour standards, environment, and sustainable development issues. His recent and forthcoming works analyse legal and policy issues emerging from the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). He holds a PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University, a Master of Laws in International Trade Law from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), a MSc in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance from the International University College of Turin (Italy); and an LLB from the University of Buea (Cameroon). Dr Simo has also worked as a consultant on several trade-related technical assistance projects in Africa on issues such as trade in services, trade facilitation, and regional trade agreements. An Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Public Law and Policy, his scholarship has been published in the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, the African Journal of International and Comparative Law, the Italian Yearbook of International Law, the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, the Manchester Journal of International and Economic Law, the George Washington International Law Review, the Brooklyn Journal of International Law, the Law and Development Review, among others.
Luwam Dirar is a Senior Research Fellow (Sub-Saharan Africa) at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law. She is also the co-founder of EriLaws – an international access to justice project. Luwam holds a J.S.D. and LL.M. from Cornell Law School, and LL.B. from Asmara University. Previously, she was the legal advisor to the Minister of Justice of Eritrea and a law clerk for Justice Habteab Yemane of Eritrea. She has field research and/or teaching experience in Eastern and Southern African states. Her research interests include international law and international relations, international economic law, and human rights law.
Dr Sara Ghebremusse
Dr Sara Ghebremusse is an Assistant Professor at the Allard School of Law, Unibersity of British Colombia. Her Ph.D. research examines whether recent reforms in Southern African mining governance respond to “good governance” concerns. Sara holds an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, a J.D. from the University of Ottawa, a B.A. in political science and Middle Eastern and African studies from the University of Alberta, and an M.A. in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. She writes, researches, and teaches in the areas of African law and society, law and development, mining governance in the Global South, human rights, and transnational law. She has published in all these fields and has presented her research at conferences in Canada, Germany, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. Dr. Ghebremusse supervises graduate students in subjects related to her research and teaching interests. She is a member of UBC Black Caucus.