Mr. Chaloka Beyani

Mr. Chaloka Beyani was appointed in December 2019 as a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement.

Mr Beyani is an Associate Professor of International Law in the Law Department at the London School of Economics (LSE), a member of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and former Chair of its Advisory Board. He joined the Department of Law at LSE in 1996 and lectures in international law and human rights. He was formerly a Research Fellow at Wolfson college, Oxford, with Lectureships in Law at Exeter and St. Catherine's colleges, Oxford, and a Crown Prince of Jordan Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, as part of the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford. Mr Beyani studied law at the University of Oxford (D.Phil) and at the University of Zambia (UNZA)(LLB, LLM). He has taught international law, human rights, public law, and criminal law at Oxford and UNZA. He was Visiting Professor of International Law at the University of Toronto and Santa Clara University. Mr Beyani is a recognized international and United Nations expert on internally displaced persons, population transfers, mercenaries and private military companies, sexual and reproductive health, the human rights-based approach to development, climate change, making treaties, and making constitutions. He has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and a legal adviser and expert to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Development Fund for Women, the European Union, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the African Union. Mr Beyani was a member of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Union on the Formation of an African Union Government. He has served as an expert to the African Union on the issue of universal jurisdiction and was a member of the joint African Union and European Union ad hoc Expert Group on Universal Jurisdiction. He is currently a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Advisory Group on Human Rights.

Mr Beyani has practical legal and political experience in making national constitutions. He was an official mediator between the Government of Mozambique and the armed opposition rebel group RENAMO from 2017-2018 and drafted amendments to the Constitution of Mozambique to incorporate the agreement on on devolution. He served as a member of the official Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review of the Republic of Kenya, the Committee that drafted and prepared the Constitution of Kenya, which was adopted by referendum in 2010. He also has practical legal and diplomatic experience in treaty making, having drafted and negotiated the adoption of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons 2009. He also drafted and negotiated the adoption of 11 peace treaties under the framework of the Pact on Peace, Stability and Development of the Great Lakes Region 2006.

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