H.E. Mrs Graça Machel

Chairperson, International Board of Trustees, ACPF; Founder and Chair of the Board, Graca Machel Trust

Assefa Bequele, PhD

Founder and Distinguished Fellow, ACPF

Dr Joan Nyanyuki

Executive Director, ACPF

Guileda Shafeekath Ashanti

Child Speaker; President, National Association of Children’s Councils, Benin

Ms Leah Namugerwa

Fridays for Future, Uganda

Ninth IPC

Honourable Patricia Annie Kaliati

Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, Republic of Malawi

Honourable Fatou Kinteh

Minister of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Republic of the Gambia

Honourable Manty Tarawalli

Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs, Republic of Sierra Leone

Honourable lvete maibaze

Minister of Land and Environment, Republic of Mozambique

Honourable Eisenhower Mkaka

Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change, Republic of Malawi

Honourable Aya Benjamin Warille

Minister of Gender, Child and Social Service, South Sudan

Honourable Prof Foday Moriba Jaward

Minister of the Environment, Republic of Sierra Leone

Honourable Engineer Collins Nzovu

Minister of Green Economy and Environment, Republic of Zambia

Honourable Alhagie S. Darbo

Chairperson of the Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC), Republic of the Gambia

H.E Horiuchi Toshihiko

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mission of Japan to the African Union

H.E Hans Henric Lundquist

Ambassador of Sweden to Ethiopia and Djibouti; Permanent Representative to AU, IGAD and UNECA

Ambassador Madeleine Garlick

UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, British Embassy in Ethiopia

H.E Jainaba Jagne

Head of Mission, Permanent Representative to the AU and UNECA, Embassy of the Republic of Gambia

Mr Christopher Nyce

Climate Officer, U.S. Mission to the African Union

Ninth IPC

Honourable Joseph Ndayisenga

Chairperson, African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)

Honourable Theophane Nikyema

Member, African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; Executive Director, ACPF (2013-2018)

Mr Ayalew Getachew

Senior Child Protection Officer, African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) Secretariat

Dr David R. Boyd

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment

Dr Najat Maalla M'jid

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children

Ms Mikiko Otani

Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Mr Elhadj As Sy

Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2014 -2019); Member, International Board of Trustees, ACPF

Prof. Atangcho Nji Akonumbo

Dean, Faculty of Laws and Political Science, University of Buea - Cameroon

Dr Oluwatotin Adejonwo, Nigeria

Senior Lecturer of Law, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Prof. John H. Knox

Professor of Law, Wake Forest University; Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2012-2018)

Professor Jaap E. Doek

Emeritus Professor of Family and Juvenile Law at the Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands; Member, International Board of Trustees, ACPF; Chairperson, UNCRC (2001-2007)

Mr Jean-Paul Adam

Director, Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Division, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Ms Christelle Kalhoule

Director, West Africa, Children Believe

Mr Mohamadou Lamine Cissé

President, Africa Wide Movement for Children (AMC)

Ms Kelly Matheson

Deputy Director, Global Climate Litigation

Mr Robi Redda

Director, SouthSouthNorth; and CDKN, Ethiopia and Kenya Country Head

Mr Solomon Legesse

General Manager, Support for Sustainable Development, Ethiopia

Mr Tourdjoumane Layibe

President, Human Rights Without Borders (DHSF), Chad

Shimelis Tsegaye, PhD

Director of Programmes, ACPF