The Board of Directors is responsible for policy development and general management of IHRDA. Members of the Board are appointed based on their expertise and experience in international human rights law and their interest in human rights and development in Africa.
Julia Harrington Reddy (United States of America)
Ms. Harrington Reddy, a co-founder of IHRDA and its first Executive Director (1998-2003). She is currently a Senior Legal Officer (Equality and Citizenship) at the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), based in New York. She holds degrees in social science and law from Harvard University. She was a legal officer at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for four years before co-founding IHRDA.
Pascal Kambale (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Mr Kambale is the Deputy Director of Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) at the Open Society Institute based in Dakar. A Congolese human rights lawyer and former lecturer at the Catholic University of Graben in Butembo, eastern Congo, he studied International Law, Humanitarian Law, and Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and the University of Kinshasa. Mr Kambale has previously worked for Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the UN Peacekeeping Mission to Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL). Most recently, he served as member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Post Election Violence (CIPEV) in Kenya.
Justice Amina Augie (Nigeria)
Amina Augie is a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, Kaduna Judicial Division.
Abdoulie Barry (The Gambia)
Mr Barry is the Head of Finance at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratories in The Gambia. He holds an MBA from the Manchester Business School and is a graduate of the Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants. He has special interest in Information Technology as it relates to accounting systems and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.
David Padilla (United States of America)
Dr Padilla was Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights from 1980 to 2001. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Detroit as well as masters degrees in international affairs, international law and public administration. He taught at the American University law school between 1987-1996. He is currently extraordinary professor at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
Sheila B. Keetharuth (Mauritius) Ex-officio
