Who We Are

The Rt Hon Baroness Prashar of Runnymede CBE is a crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is Chair of Cumberland Lodge, President of the National Literacy Trust, and Patron of the Runnymede Trust.

Dr Myriam Cottias is Director of the Center for International Research on Slavery at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is former President of the National Committee on the Memory and History of Slavery.

Ambassador Yves Doutriaux is Associate Professor in Public Law and Public Management at the Université Paris 1 (Sorbonne), and Professor in Geopolitics at the Université Paris-Dauphine. He was French Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and Deputy Ambassador of France to the United Nations.

As Executive Director, Mark Ellis leads the International Bar Association (IBA). He is the co-recipient of the American Bar Association’s World Order Under Law Award, the recipient of Florida State University’s Distinguished Graduate Award and Torch Award and the University’s College of Social Sciences; Public Policy Distinguished Alumni Award.

Benjamin Glahn is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Salzburg Global Seminar, an independent non-profit organisation founded in 1947 to challene current and future leaders to shape a better world.

Judge Richard Goldstone is a former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, and former Chief Prosecutor, International Tribunal for War Crimes for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. He is the founding Chairman of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR).

Dr Timothy W Ryback is Co-Founder of the IHJR. He previously served as Deputy Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and Vice President of Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria.