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Candidates for IAP Conflict Committee

4/28/2020

Please see list of candidates for election during the 25th General Meeting 


Record of applications under article 17.5

In accordance with Article 17.5 the Conflict Committee shall consist of five members, of which the quorum shall be three, who shall be appointed by the General Meeting and shall serve for a term of three years. Members of the Conflict Committee shall be eligible for reappointment and may resign by notice in writing to the Secretary-General. Members of the Conflict Committee may not be members of the Executive Committee.

I am pleased to announce the candidates for appointment to the IAP Conflict Committee by the 25th General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors:

  • Thomas Burrows, IAP Senator, USA
  • Nick Cowdery, Chair IAP Senate, Australia
  • Carlos Donoso Castex, IAP Senator, Argentina
  • Francois Falletti, IAP Senator, France
  • Henk Marquart Scholtz, IAP Senator, The Netherlands
  • Wendy Stephen, IAP Senator, Canada

Han Moraal, Secretary-General of IAP

 

Tom Burrows

Tom Burrows is an Associate Director of the Office of International Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice. He supervises extradition and mutual legal assistance cases involving more than 50 countries. He also specializes in negotiating information sharing agreements on organized crime and terrorism, as well as data privacy arrangements.

Mr. Burrows has nearly 20 years of experience as a prosecutor. He prosecuted homicides and other violent crimes in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. In the Justice Department, he has prosecuted public corruption cases, led a task force that investigated and prosecuted terrorism against abortion clinics, and supervised prosecutions of child pornography and other child exploitation crimes.  In 1999 and 2000, he helped the US negotiate the UN Transnational Organized Crime Convention, particularly the Protocols to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants. He has trained prosecutors, police, judges and parliamentarians in many parts of the world regarding the requirements and the opportunities for cooperation under the UNTOC.  Mr. Burrows has chaired the International Cooperation Working Group of the UNTOC Conference of the Parties since 2010.

From 2012-2018, Mr. Burrows served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Prosecutors. He has been active in the IAP since 1998, having spoken at numerous conferences and been involved in several projects to advance the interests of the IAP.

He is a graduate of Kent State University and New York University School of Law.

 

Nick Cowdery

Nicholas Cowdery AO, QC, BA, LLB, Hon LLD, FAAL, Hon FACBS was admitted as a lawyer in 1971 and practiced continuously until 2017. He was a public defender in Papua New Guinea, a Barrister in private practice in Sydney, an acting judge and Director of Public Prosecutions for New South Wales, Australia from 1994 to 2011. Since then he has been teaching criminal law subjects at universities (as an Adjunct Professor) and involved in criminal justice and human rights projects in many countries.

He was an inaugural member of the IAP Executive Committee from 1995, President of the IAP 1999 to 2005 and is now Chair of the IAP Senate. He was awarded the IAP Medal of Honour in 2011. He is an Honorary Member of the IAP and has been and remains engaged in several IAP committees and projects (including the Prosecutors Exchange Program, Civil Society Organisations Committee, Global Training Academy, the IAP/UNODC Manual for Prosecutors, Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors, the GPEN in earlier times and the project to write the IAP History). 

He was founding Co-Chair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association and is an Honorary Life Member of the Association and its Council.

 

Carlos Donoso Castex

Carlos Donoso Castex graduated as a lawyer at the University of Buenos Aires in 1988. Since March 1993, he became a Prosecutor for Criminal Cases. In 2000, he was elected by his colleagues as the first vice president and highest authority representing the prosecutors in the Argentine Association of Magistrates of the National Justice, where he served until the end of 2002. He worked actively for many years in the Public Prosecutors Commission of the Argentine Association of Magistrates of which he was president for the period 2006-2008. Since 1999, he has been playing an active role in the “International Association of Prosecutors IAP. In 2002, he was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee. In 2004, he was elected as Vice President of the IAP representing South America. He has been the first Spanish-speaking member of the IAP Executive Committee. In March 2007, he was re-elected as Vice President, and once again in 2010, for another period of three years, until September of 2013. In 2005, with a group of Argentine Prosecutors he organized the Association of National Prosecutors of Argentina and was appointed as vice president in 2007. In 2010, he was elected president and re-elected in 2013, and served until the end of 2016.Within the IAP, he was part of a group of 7 Prosecutors from different countries who worked for more than a year to elaborate the “Standards on the safety and protection of Prosecutors and their families” that were approved and adopted by the IAP in 2008, in Helsinki. He was invited that year to speak about that subject in Quebec, by the Canadian Association of Crown Counsel. Carlos is still serving as a prosecutor, being the head of his office.                                           

 

François Falletti

Profile as a prosecutor

François Falletti has a 40 years’ experience in various position in the French public prosecution office from 1975 to 2015. He has namely been director for criminal affairs in the French Ministry of Justice (1993-1996), chief prosecutor in Lyon (1996-2004), Aix en Provence (2008-2010) and Paris (2010-2015). He has also been the French National Member at Eurojust, the European agency for judicial cooperation (2004-2008).

Since November 2015, he works in private practice.

He provides lessons to investigators (police and French gendarmerie) in the frame of their high schools. He has published several books about legal issues in criminal matters, lastly in March 2020.

 

Involvement in the IAP

François Falletti has been executive committee member from 1999 to 2013, vice president for Europe (2005- 2007), president of the IAP (2007-2010), immediate past president until 2013.

 Since he left the exco, he has joined the Senate of the Association. He has also been involved as panelist in some annual conferences. He has provided a training session about Human Rights in Baku (Azerbaijan) in May 2019.

From 2009 to 2018, François Falletti has been also secretary general of the francophone association of prosecutors, which is partner of IAP thanks to a protocol that links both associations on the long run. Since 2018, he is member of the executive board of the francophone association, which has for instance organised several meetings in several countries.

 

Henk Marquart Scholtz

Henk Marquart Scholtz (74) was a member of the Dutch Prosecution Service for 38 years and retired in 2010. During the last 15 years of his service as a prosecutor, he acted as (the first) Secretary-General of the International Association of Prosecutors, of which he was one of the founding fathers.

In these years, while not actively prosecuting, he also was acting judge in three Courts of Appeal, in Amsterdam, The Hague and ’s-Hertogenbosch.

In 2011, he was elected as member of the IAP Conflict Committee.

From 2011-2017 he was an EU Senior Project Leader, of two EU IPA projects in the Western Balkans, aiming to strengthen cooperation in the fight against organised crime.

In March 2017, he was elected as member of the Groningen States Provincial (provincial parliament) for a term of four years.

 

Wendy Stephen

Wendy M. Stephen, Q.C, was called to the Bar of British Columbia, Canada in 1983 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2001.

Wendy’s education:

Bachelor of Laws, 1982, University of British Columbia, Canada, Master of Law, 1987, University of Cambridge, England

Her work as a prosecutor:

Labour and Employment Lawyer, 1983-1986 and 1988-1991 Vancouver, BC,  

Prosecutor, 1987-1988 and 1991-present, Vancouver and New Westminster, BC

Wendy’s associations: 

British Columbia Association of Crown Counsel, Director 1993-1994 and 2018-present, President 1994-2001

Canadian Association of Crown Counsel: President 1995-2002: Director of International Relations 2007-present

Her involvement in the International Association of Prosecutors:

Individual Member 1998-present,

Executive Committee Member 2005-2014

Vice President for North-America 2007-2014

Honorary Life Member 2014-present

Senator (active) 2014-present