Speakers

• Dr Anne Makena Programme coordinator - Africa Oxford Initiative
  

  Dr Anne Makena

  Programme coordinator - Africa Oxford Initiative

  Dr Anne Makena is the Program Coordinator of the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), a vibrant platform for all things Africa at Oxford. Anne is responsible for developing and implementing the overall strategy of the Initiative (AfOx), as well as managing the core AfOx programs. AfOx supports a wide range of activities including a travel grant scheme and visiting fellowships for African academics, supporting high quality meetings and providing academic and mentorship support to African students and research staff in Oxford.

• Dr Duncan Okubasu Law Lecturer
  

  Dr Duncan Okubasu

  Law Lecturer

  Duncan Okubasu is a Law Lecturer at the Department of Public Law in Moi University. He is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya involved in Constitutional and Human Rights litigation. He was, in addition, the founding Director of the Centre for Jurisprudence & Constitutional Studies at Kabarak University.

• Dr Meghan Campbell Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub
  

  Dr Meghan Campbell

  Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub

  Meghan Campbell is the Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She is also a Law Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She was previously the Weston Junior Research Fellow, New College, Oxford University. Her research explores how the international human rights system can best respond to gender inequality and poverty.

• Dr Victoria Miyandazi Law Lecturer
  

  Dr Victoria Miyandazi

  Law Lecturer

  Victoria Miyandazi is a Law Lecturer at the University of Embu, Associate Advocate at Okubasu, Munene & Kazungu Advocates LLP and a former Researcher at the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She mainly teaches and writes on Equality Law, Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Property Law and Comparative Law.

• Prof Christina Murray Emeritus Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law
  

  Prof Christina Murray

  Emeritus Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law

  Christina Murray is an Emeritus Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Cape Town and is a Senior Adviser of the United Nations Mediation Support Standby Team, with a focus on constitution-making process and constitutional design.

• Prof Osogo Ambani Associate Professor of Public Law
  

  Prof Osogo Ambani

  Associate Professor of Public Law

  J Osogo Ambani is an Associate Professor of Public Law and Dean at Kabarak University Law School. He has taught and published widely in the areas of governance in Africa his latest book being Africa and the decolonisation of state-religion policies (Brill) 2021. 

• Prof Patricia Kameri-Mbote Professor of Law
  

  Prof Patricia Kameri-Mbote

  Professor of Law

  Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Nairobi, where she was also the first female Dean. She is the first female Professor of law in Kenya, founding Research Director of International Environmental Law Research Centre and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya (Senior Counsel).

• Prof Sandra Fredman Professor of Law
  

  Prof Sandra Fredman

  Professor of Law

  Sandra Fredman is a Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University, professorial fellow at Oxford’s Pembroke College, Founder and Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She has published widely on human rights, labour law and equality law. Her books include Women and the Law, Discrimination Law, Human Rights Transformed and Comparative Human Rights. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012. 

• Retired Chief Justice David Maraga Former Chief Justice of the Kenyan Judiciary
  

  Retired Chief Justice David Maraga

  Former Chief Justice of the Kenyan Judiciary

  Retired Chief Justice David Maraga is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) London. Before joining the Judiciary, he was in private practice for over 25 years. He was appointed Judge of the High Court in 2003 and to the Court of Appeal in 2012. He served as Presiding Judge of the regional Court of Appeal bench at Kisumu, and was the Chair of the Judiciary Committee on Elections (JCE). He has received numerous awards in recognition of his defence of the rule of law.