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 is a cofounder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, and currently the Director of the ICTJ Geneva office and Peace and Justice Program. She has undertaken extensive research on how justice issues are addressed in peace negotiations, with publications on the peace processes in Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nepal, as well as publishing a general guidance note for mediators. In March 2008, Ms. Hayner served as human rights advisor for the Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation, at the request of Kofi Annan and the Panel of Eminent African Personalities. Ms. Hayner is an expert on truth commissions and has written widely on official truth-seeking in political transitions, publishing Unspeakable Truths, a comparative study of over twenty such commissions, in 2001. She was previously a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Program Officer for the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, New York. She holds a BA from Earlham College and a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University.