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François Croquette

François Croquette is a career diplomat and has been working for 30 years with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr Croquette’s first assignment was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 1990s. He then witnessed the end of the apartheid era and was part of the EU observation mission during the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. He worked on secondment with the FCO as Head of the Horn of Africa section in 2002-2003.

He took part in the reform of the French international development program as Chief of Staff (2000-2002) and Private Secretary (2013-2014) to the French Minister for International Development. He also served as Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the French Senate (2011-2013).

He was posted in Moscow and in London and ran the French Institute in the UK from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, he was appointed as the French Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights. From 2020 to 2024, he was director for climate issues at City Hall in Paris.

Mr Croquette has worked closely with civil society throughout his career. He sat on the board of Together against the death penalty, founded by the late Robert Badinter to campaign for worldwide abolition and he is currently Vice-Chairman of Amnesty International France.

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Natalie Nougayrède

Natalie Nougayrède is a French journalist with a 30-year career in international news coverage.

She joined The Guardian’s editorial board in 2014, launched and edited its Europe Now section, and was a columnist. Ms Nougayrède was previously the editor-in-chief of Le Monde – the first woman to hold this position – after being its diplomatic correspondent and Moscow bureau chief. Ms Nougayrède focuses on European affairs, democracy, human rights, and international justice. Ms Nougayrède was awarded two French journalism prizes, the Prix de la Presse Diplomatique (2004) and the Prix Albert Londres (2005), for her coverage of Russia and the Chechnya war.

Ms Nougayrède serves on the board of the Primo Levi Centre in Paris, an NGO which helps refugees who have been victims of torture and political violence. She is involved in mentoring civil society initiatives and media projects in the Eastern Partnership region. She has held fellowships at the Robert Bosch Academy (Berlin), the INDEX Institute for Documentation and Exchange, and the Center for Urban History (Ukraine). She is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the Koerber Foundation History Reflection group. She has regularly served on the jury teams of international journalism prizes (European Press Prize, Bayeux War Reporters prize).

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Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp

Amb. Stephen J. Rapp is an American lawyer, prosecutor, and former Ambassador-at-Large of the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department.

He is a Senior Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide, Georgetown Law International Justice Center for National Security, and at Oxford University’s Center for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. During 2017-2018, he was the Father Robert Drinan Visiting Professor for Human Rights at Georgetown University. He serves as Chair of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), a Senior Peace Fellow of the Public International Law and Policy Group, and on the boards of Physicians for Human Rights, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, the IBA Human Rights Institute, the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Guernica 37, and the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa (CILPA).

From 2009 to 2015, he was Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department. In that position, he coordinated U.S. Government support to international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court, as well as to hybrid and national courts responsible for prosecuting persons charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. During his tenure, he traveled more than 1.5 million miles to 87 countries to engage with victims, civil society organizations, investigators and prosecutors, and the leaders of governments and international bodies to further efforts to bring perpetrators to justice.

Amb. Rapp was the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2009 where he led the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. During his tenure, his office achieved the first convictions in history for sexual slavery and forced marriage as crimes against humanity, and for attacks on peacekeepers and recruitment and use of child soldiers as violations of international humanitarian law. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he headed the trial team that achieved the first convictions in history of leaders of the mass media for the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide.

Miranda Dunbar-Johnson

A dual national who has lived and worked across the world

Miranda Johnson has over 13 years of advocacy and fundraising experience with Human Rights Watch, most recently as co-chair of their London committee and member of their international council steering committee.

In her role as an HRW committee member, Miranda has successfully spearheaded collaborations with visual artists from Ai Wei Wei to Christo.

Other examples of Miranda’s efforts to connect activism to the creative space include the HRW book club initiative and theatrical co-productions with Georgetown University.

Before her involvement with HRW, she worked in the arts and media sector, acting as advertising director and then deputy publisher for Tate the Art magazine.