UNODC Global Judicial Integrity Network Podcast Creators & Guests

Duro Sessa is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia and the President of Association of Croatian Judges.

Justice Judith Jones was elevated to the Court of Appeal after eleven years on the High Court Bench. Prior to her elevation, she served as a member of the Court Calendaring and Monitoring Committee upon the introduction of the Civil Proceedings Rules in 2005. She is also a member of the Board of the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad & Tobago. And she became a Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute in 2010.

Shiranee Tilakawardane is a Supreme Court Justice in Sri Lanka and member of the Judicial Service Commission. She has also served as acting Chief Justice for when Mohan Peiris was out of the country.

Mathilda Twomey is a Seychellois lawyer and academic. She is the first female judge in the history of Seychelles and also the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles.

Sandra Oxner is the Nova Scotia's first female judge and the founding president of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, and launched international judicial education programming.

Madiyar Balken is the Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Stephen Halsey was a Tenth Judicial District judge for Wright County, Minnesota. He has served on this court since May 24, 2002, and was elected to full terms in 2004, 2010, and 2016. He retired from office on December 30, 2021.

Virginia Mary Kendall is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President George W. Bush appointed her to the bench on January 3, 2006. In addition to serving on the bench, Judge Kendall is also a noted expert on child exploitation and human trafficking, as well as an adjunct law professor and author.

Gerhard Reissner is a Judge and a member of the International Association of Judges.

Janice Pereira is the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. She became the first female Chief Justice and the first person from the British Virgin Islands to become Chief Justice in 2012.

Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza is a Ugandan lawyer, academic and judge, who has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda, since 2015.

Judge Grzegorz Borkowski, PhD, Head of Office of the National Council of Judiciary in Poland, from 2010 to 2015 seconded to the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution (KSSiP) in Poland and Head its International Cooperation Department, responsible for, inter alia, international cooperation and trainings of judges and prosecutors in the field of human rights’ protection and European Court of Human Rights’ case-law.

Nihal Jayawickrama is a Sri Lankan academic. He was the former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice (1970–1977), Professor of Law at University of Hong Kong (1984–1997), Ariel F Sallows Professor of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1992–1993), and Executive Director of Transparency International (1997–2000). He is now an independent legal consultant, and has been the Coordinator of the UN-sponsored Judicial Integrity Group since 2000.

Judge Muzaffar Akhmedov is a member of the Supreme Judicial Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Lynne Leitch graduated from Western Law in 1978 and practiced commercial law until her appointment to the Superior Court of Ontario in 1992. She was appointed a regional senior judge by the Minister of Justice in November 2003 and served in that position until November 2009 when she was re-appointed as a judge of the Superior Court.

Diana Graski is Principal Court Management Consultant at National Center for State Courts.

Fatima Al-Mal is a judge from Qatar.

Kashim Zannah is Honourable Justice at High Court of Justice, Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Justice Adrian Saunders is the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and Global Judicial Integrity Network Advisory Board Member.