JUSTICE EMILE SHORT
Justice Emile Short served as Commissioner for the Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice from 1993 to 2010. Between 2004 and 2010, he served as a judge on the United Nations International Tribunal for Rwanda.
LORD BLAIR OF BOUGHTON
Lord Blair served as Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 2005 and 2008. His extensive experience includes counter-terrorism, anti-corruption, organisational change and leadership. His latest book is Policing Controversy, 2010.
PROFESSOR ATO QUAYSON
Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He was previously the Director of the African Studies Centre, and a Fellow at Pembroke College, both at the University of Cambridge, UK. His most recent book is Oxford Street, Accra: Urban Evolution, Street Life and Itineraries of the Transnational, 2014.
PROFESSOR SUSANNE KARSTEDT
Susanne Karstedt is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. Her main research interests are cross-national and cross cultural analyses of violence and mass atrocities, crime and justice; her present research addresses the impact of democracy and democratic values on a range of crime and justice outcomes. In 2007, she received the Sellin-Glueck-Award of the American Society of Criminology
PROFESSOR H. KWASI PREMPEH
Kwasi Prempeh is Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, US. He was previously Director of Legal Policy and Governance at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, and a transactional associate at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, US. Kwasi specialises in constitutional law, comparative constitutional design and problems of constitutionalism in post-authoritarian societies.
PROFESSOR SIR ANTHONY BOTTOMS
Tony Bottoms was Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge from 1984 and 2006, and served at Director of the Institute of Criminology from 1984 to 1998. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Life Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He was knighted for “services to criminal justice” in 2001.
DR. BARAK ARIEL
Barak Ariel is a Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing at the University of Cambridge, and Assistant Professor of Criminology at Hebrew University, Israel.