Senior Counsel: Melissa Pack is a British barrister. She worked in private practice from Chambers in London (Farrar's Building) before moving in 2002 to The Hague where she worked as a trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She appeared in the Milosevic case, and was also a member of the prosecuting team on the Stanisic and Simatovic and Seselj cases. In Freetown, Sierra Leone, she was a trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, working primarily on the case of Brima et al. Melissa holds an MA in Law from Gronville & Caius College, Cambridge University, and an MSc in Human Rights from LSE.
Senior Counsel: Alain Werner is a Swiss lawyer admitted to the Bar of Geneva in 2002. He worked as a legal advisor and then trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) from 2003 to 2008. He appeared both in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on the Brima et al. and Sesay et al. Cases and on behalf of the SCSL in The Hague on the case against Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia. In 2009 he was co-counsel for 38 civil parties (victims) in the Kaing Guek Eav case in the first trial at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). He also worked as a consultant in 2008 for Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the attempts to bring Hissène Habré, the former President of Chad to justice. Alain holds a Law Degree from the University of Geneva and a LLM in International Law from Columbia University.
Projects Coordinator: Rachel Cummings runs Aegis's parliamentary work (including coordination of the APPG for Genocide Prevention) and other advocacy/research projects. Before joining Aegis Rachel led a coalition campaigning for improved civilian protection in Eastern Congo and worked as a researcher in Parliament. She has a degree in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford University and studied International Humanitarian Law at LSE.
