Penal Reform International has many inspiring speakers available to speak on a variety of topics related to criminal justice, including amongst its Membership Council. Please contact us to identify a speaker.
PRI’s spokespeople:
Olivia Rope
Executive Director
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Olivia Rope was appointed as Executive Director of Penal Reform International in 2020, having joined the organisation in 2012 and previously leading on policy and international advocacy. She is an expert on a range of human rights and criminal justice issues, having authored key publications and training materials for PRI and worked extensively with UN and other institutional actors and partners. Previously, Olivia worked at Amnesty International. She completed her LLM in International and European Human Rights Law at the University of Amsterdam in 2008 and was admitted to the High Court of New Zealand as a Barrister and Solicitor in 2009.
Taghreed Jaber
Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa
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Taghreed is the Regional Director for PRI in the Middle East and North Africa. She has been active in the field of human rights for many years, including working for PRI in the region since 2010. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights from the University of Essex and has vast experience leading criminal justice reform projects in more than 16 countries in the region.
Tsira Chanturia
Regional Director for South Caucasus
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Tsira has been serving as Regional Director for PRI in the South Caucasus region since early 2010. She is a member of the Consultative Council for National Preventive Mechanism at the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia since 2016. She is a member of the Criminal Justice Reform Interagency Coordination Council and its working groups, also a member on the Anti-torture Interagency Coordination Council at the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, and has served on selection committees of the penitentiary department and the National Probation Agency. Tsira is a lawyer by training and also holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of York in the United Kingdom.
Doreen Namyalo Kyazze
Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doreen is PRI’s Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa. She has extensive experience in human rights advocacy in East Africa. She has served as project manager and legal expert on a number of human rights projects in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda including death penalty campaign, promotion of gender sensitive sentencing, alternatives to imprisonment; torture prevention; and prison reform. Doreen Namyalo is a member of the Uganda Law Society and Federation of Uganda Women Lawyers.
Jérôme Mangelinckx
Global Policy Manager
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Jérôme is Global Policy Manager at PRI. He draws on extensive experience in drug policy reform, penal and penitentiary reform, and human rights, having played a key role as a co-founder of the Research Centre on Drugs and Human Rights (CIDDH), a Peruvian NGO dedicated to safeguarding the human rights of those most vulnerable to the impacts of the war on drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Among other responsibilities, he coordinated CIDDH’s Legal Clinic and developed a training guide for public defenders to improve legal aid to women imprisoned for drug offences in Peru. Jérôme holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Catholic University of Murcia in Spain, and a Graduate Certificate in Community Health and HIV from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).