Head of Liberia program
Special focus: Truth commissions
Broadcast Appearances: BBC N. Ireland Radio, BBC World Service Radio, KBIA University of Missouri Public Radio, NPR, SABC (South Africa), STAR Radio (Liberia), UNMIL Radio (Liberia)

Priscilla Hayner, a co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, is the Director of the Center’s Peace and Justice Program; as of July 2007, Director of the ICTJ Geneva office; and also manages Center’s Liberia program. She has recently undertaken in-depth research into past peace negotiations and how justice issues are handled therein, with publications forthcoming. Ms. Hayner is an expert on truth commissions around the world and has written widely on the subject of official truth-seeking in political transitions. She is the author of Unspeakable Truths (2001), which explores the work of more than 20 truth commissions worldwide. Prior to founding the ICTJ, she was a consultant at the Ford Foundation, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and other organizations. Ms. Hayner was previously a program officer on international human rights and world security for the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation in New York. She holds degrees from Earlham College and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.