LSE Law School congratulates Chaloka Beyani, who has been appointed UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and UN Under Secretary General. Chaloka Beyani, as well as teaching here at LSE, is an international expert on internally-displaced persons, population transfers, mercenaries and private military companies, sexual and reproductive health, human rights-based approach to development and climate change. He has previously served in a variety of roles drawing on his expertise, including member of the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Group on Human Rights (2010-2024), member of the Expert Advisory Group for the United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Internal Displacement (2019-2021); United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (2010-2016); member of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Union on the Formation of an African Union Government (2008-2009); and member of the joint African Union and European Union ad hoc Expert Group on Universal Jurisdiction (2009).
Chaloka Beyani and the UN Secretary General António Guterres