Ms. Bassasso Ali Tiloh

Programme Officer, Counter Trafficking and Child Protection, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

H.E. Mr. Tsegaye Asmamaw

Vice President, Federal Supreme Court, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Dr. Assefa Bequele

Executive Director, ACPF

H.E. Honorable William Byaruhanga

Attorney General, Republic of Uganda

Maître Malick Coulibaly

President of the National Commission on Human Rights, former Minister of Justice, Republic of Mali

Professor Jaap Doek

Professor of Law, Vrije University, Amsterdam

Ms. Rumbidzai Dube

Senior Programme Officer, Children and Law Programme, ACPF

Mr. Edmund Foley

Head of Department for Public Law, Ghana Institute of Public Management

Ms. Beatrice Gacengo

Programme Specialist, Online Child Sexual Exploitation, ECPAT International

Mr. Ayalew Getachew Assefa

Senior Legal Researcher, ACERWC Secretariat

Dr. Michael Gibbons

Programme Director, Children’s Rights/Education, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Ms Zita Hansungule

Senior Project Coordinator, Center for Child Law (CCL), University of Pretoria

Ms. Kristen Hope-Burchill

Justice Advisor, Terre Des Hommes

Mr. Alex Kamarotos

Executive Director, Defence for Children International

Mr. Abdul Manaff Kemokai

Executive Director, DCI Sierra Leone

Mr. Henry Kabwe

Executive Director, Media Network on Child Rights and Development (MNCRD), Zambia

Ms. Lynn Kay

Country Director, Retrak

Mr. Benoit Van Keirsbilck

Director, DCI-Belgium

Ms. Tina Lorizzo, Researcher

Dullah Omar Institute/Article 5 Initiative (DOI/CSPRI)

Honourable Justice Teresia Matheka

Judiciary, Kenya

Mr. Theophane Nikyema

Board Member, International Bureau of Children’s Rights (IBCR); Executive Director, ACPF (2013-2018)

A national of Burkina Faso, Mr. Théophane Nikyèma is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bureau of Children’s Rights. He also serves as a Trustees at Keeping Children Safe.  

From August 2013 to January 2018, he was the Executive Director of the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF). Prior to that, he held senior positions at the United Nations including UNICEF Representative ad interim in Mali; UNDP Resident Representative, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Uganda; UNICEF Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa, UNICEF Representative in Rwanda, Senior Operations Officer at UNICEF Tanzania, and Regional Operations Officer for UNICEF SouthAsia.  

Mr. Nikyèma holds a Postgraduate diploma in Human Resources from the Institute of Policy Development and Management, the University of Manchester, England, United Kingdom; a Master of Business Administration from the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of Claremont Graduate University, USA and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.

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