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Michael P. Jacobson, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Michael P. Jacobson joined the Vera Institute of Justice as its fourth director in January 2005. He is the author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration (New York University Press, 2005). A Ph.D. in sociology, he has an ongoing academic career as well as over twenty years of government service.
He was the New York City Correction Commissioner from 1995 to 1998. While there, he was responsible for overseeing the largest decline in violence (63 percent) in the system's history, cut overtime by 50 percent and reduced the sick rate by 38 percent.
From 1992 to 1996, he was New York City's Probation Commissioner, where he planned and implemented productivity programs responsible for over $14 million in annual tax levy savings including the use of intensive juvenile supervision to keep youngsters from being placed in Division for Youth secure facilities, the City's first electronic monitoring/intensive supervision program, and reducing the time to completion for pre-sentence investigations by over 50 percent.
He worked in the New York City Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1992 where he was the Deputy Budget Director.
Immediately before joining Vera, he was a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he taught courses in urban sociology, criminology, public policy and finance, corrections and criminal justice policies and public administration. He established and coordinated an associate degree program on Rikers Island for correction officers and staff and received funding from New York State Legislature to design, implement and evaluate a credit-bearing college course on police leadership and human dignity for first line police supervisors.
Michael is the chair of the Criminal Justice Agency and Altus – a global alliance working across continents and from a multicultural perspective to improve public safety and justice.
Professor Etannibi Alemika
Professor Etannibi Alemika is director of research for the CLEEN Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria, and is a leading researcher and author on criminal justice reform in Nigeria. He is a professor of criminology and sociology of law, specializing in criminal justice policy and practice, with emphasis on police and prisons. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in sociology from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and an MSc and PhD with distinction in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches the sociology of law at the University of Jos.
Innocent Chukwuma
Innocent Chukwuma is director of the CLEEN Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria, and editor-in-chief of CLEEN's quarterly magazine, Law Enforcement Review. He has written extensively on police-community relations, vigilantism, and law and human rights in Nigeria. Prior to creating CLEEN, he directed the International Lobby Program at the Civil Liberties Organization in Lagos. He has a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy (MILD) from the University of Lagos and an MSc in Criminal Justice from the University of Leicester. Innocent Chukwuma was awarded the Reebok International Human Rights Award in 1996.
Richard G. Dudley Jr.
Richard G. Dudley Jr. M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City, and also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Dr. Dudley’s private practice includes a clinical evaluation and treatment practice, and a forensic psychiatry practice focused on both civil and criminal matters. At the law school, Dr. Dudley lectures on ‘expert evidence’, works with the students in the school’s capital clinic, and is also working with a group of law school faculty on the development of a center which will focus on the relationship between law and the behavioral sciences and how race and class effects this interaction. He has testified as an expert in psychiatry in capital cases at the trial level and post conviction, throughout the United States.
Alison Hannah
Alison came to PRI with extensive experience in the field of legal and human rights in the UK. She started her career at the National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty), working on police complaints and prisoners’ rights. After qualifying as a solicitor, she specialised in legal aid cases covering crime, family and emergency and domestic violence. She worked in private practice and also as a community lawyer for a Citizens Advice Bureau, with a focus on employment and housing law. Working at the Legal Aid Board, she was one of the first team to introduce a quality assurance scheme for solicitors, then left to become head of quality assurance and training for a not for profit company managing residential care homes for old people. While living in the U.S. from 1997 – 2001, she took a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, and after returning to the U.K. worked in senior management in the NGO sector. Before joining PRI in June 2007, Alison was Director of the Legal Action Group, a UK charity that promotes access to justice across a range of legal issues and services.
James A. Goldston
James A. Goldston is the founding Executive Director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational arm of the Soros foundations network that promotes rights-based law reform worldwide. The Justice Initiative pursues international litigation, advocacy and research to address a wide range of problems, including mass atrocity crimes, statelessness, barriers to free expression, excessive pre-trial detention, and corruption linked to exploitation of natural resources.
In 2007–2008, he served as the Coordinator of Prosecutions and Senior Trial Attorney at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he oversaw litigation in all cases involving the Office of the Prosecutor, and helped prepare the arrest warrant application for President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan.
Previously, as Legal Director of the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Center, he spearheaded the development of ground-breaking civil rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights, United Nations treaty bodies, and domestic courts in 15 European countries. He was lead counsel in the decade-long litigation culminating in the landmark 2007 judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in DH v. Czech Republic, which for the first time found a nationwide systemic practice of discrimination in breach of the European Convention.
He has also served as Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, Director General for Human Rights of the Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, researcher for Human Rights Watch, and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.
Michail Fedotov
Michail Fedotov is Vice-President of the INDEM Foundation since 1998, Moscow, Russia. He is Executive Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists, Co-chairman of the Grand Jury of the Russian Union of Journalists. Prior to that, he worked as a Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to UNESCO in Paris and as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. He also served as a Minister of Press and Information of the Russian Federation and Director-General of the Russian Intellectual Property Agency under the President of the Russian Federation. Mr. Fedotov has a Ph.D. in law. He is holder of the UNESCO Chair on Copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights, Institute of International Law and Economics, President of the Creativity Center for UNESCO, Adviser of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
Hugo Frühling
Hugo Frühling directs the Center for Studies on Public Safety (Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana-CESC) in Santiago, Chile, and is a professor at the University of Chile's Institute of Public Affairs. Between 1992 and 1994, he was executive secretary of the Public Security Coordinating Council of the Ministry of the Interior of Chile and advisor to the minister of the interior. Hugo Frühling has published extensively on human rights, police, and judicial reform in Latin America. He received a JD from the University of Chile and an LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School. He has been a visiting professor at Ottawa Law School, Harvard Law School, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Princeton University and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Jorge Las Heras
Dr. Jorge Las Heras, Professor of Pathology of the University of Chile joined Altus as a Boardmember in November 2006. Dr. Las Heras has been the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Chile for almost twenty years. He is currently Provost of the University of Chile.Internationally he has received various honors and awards for his research contribution in Pathological Medicines. Dr. Las Heras has been involved internationally in innumerous executive activities in the area of Pediatric Pathology. He has published many books on the topic.
Pramod Kumar
Dr. Pramod Kumar is Director, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh. His work focuses on three interrelated themes of politics of development, violence and governance; politics of conflict management and resolution; practice of democracy through empirical methodologies; and analysis of public policy and peoples movements. He is a recipient of the prestigious Homi Bhabha Award for the year 1988 1990 to work on Causation and Forms of Ethnic Conflicts and Inter Ethnic Cooperation in India. Currently, he is Chair of the Punjab Governance Reforms Commission.
Julita Lemgruber
Julita Lemgruber is founding director of the Center for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship (Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania / CESeC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A sociologist, she has spent the last 30 years studying and advancing the administration of justice. Prior to creating CESeC, she was police ombudswoman for the State of Rio de Janeiro and before that general director of the prison system in the same state. Julita Lemgruber has been a member of Brazil's National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy (part of the Ministry of Justice) and currently serves on the boards of Penal Reform International and the International Center for Prison Studies.
Silvia Ramos
Silvia Ramos is a senior staff member of the Center for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship (Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania / CESeC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Silvia Ramos is a founder of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Aids Association (ABIA) and is scientific coordinator of the Visiting Researcher Program of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in partnership with FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro State Foundation to Support Research). She is a consultant to various nongovernmental organizations and advises the deputy secretary for public security in the State of Rio de Janeiro on programs to protect minorities and the environment. She holds a Master's in psychology from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
Georgi Satarov
Georgi Satarov is a founding member and, since 1997, president of INDEM Foundation in Moscow, Russia. Prior to directing INDEM, he was general director of the Russian Public Policy Center and from 1994 to 1997 served as an advisor to President Yeltsin. He also is a member of the Presidential Commission on Government Reform, the Vice-Chairman of the National Anticorruption Committee (an NGO), a member of the United Commission for the Coordination of Legislative Activities, and a member of the World Bank External Advisory Board on Governance and Anticorruption. In April 2000, President Putin presented Georgi Sartarov with the Order of Honor for his service to Russia. He has a PhD in systems and management analysis and an MA in mathematics and teaches at Moscow State University. He has published extensively on governance, political history, the contemporary political process in Russia, and corruption.
Dr. A.A. Siddiqui
Dr. A.A. Siddiqui is Governing Body member of the Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) in Chandigarh, India. He was formerly Director General of Police, Punjab and Manipur. He served for six years in Artillery in Army, India and 31 years in Police Administration. He worked in various positions like DGP Manipur and coordinated communication, intelligence and law and order units of the state police. He worked as Director, Punjab Police Training Academy, Phillaur. He held assignments in all India police forces as DIG Special Range in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and IG Rapid Armed Force (RAF). He worked as Vigilance and Security Chief, Food Corporation of India and Executive Director, Indian Tourism Development Corporation.
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