The Advisory Committee of Global Action on Gun Violence is made up of experts from around the world on issues relevant to global gun violence prevention efforts. As we welcome varied points of view and perspectives, membership in the Advisory Committee does not indicate support for GAGV’s work.
GLOBAL EXPERTS:
Philip Alpers
- Professor at University of Sydney (Australia)
- GunPolicy.org
- Centre for Armed Violence Reduction
HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS:
Professor Leila Sadat
- Human rights and gun violence professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Author of Gun Violence and Human Rights
Professor Arturo Carrillo
- Director, International Human Rights Clinic, George Washington University School of Law
Professor Anna Crowe
- Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic
- Former constitutional lawyer for New Zealand government
Dr. Leon Castellanos Jankiewicz
- Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague (Netherlands)
- Discussed Mexico litigation and PLCAA
- Author, Just Security
Jillian Tuck
- Harvard Law School, Assistant Director of Public Interest Advising
Professor Ingrid Wuerth
- Vanderbilt Law Professor
- International/transnational law expert
- Co-editor in chief of American Journal of International Law
- Transnational Law blog
Professor Rosa Celerio
- Human rights professor at George Washington University School of Law
- Burnett Family Associate Dean and Professorial Lecturer for International and Comparative Legal Studies
- Author, Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook (forthcoming)
- Professor of Human Rights Law at Tilburg Law School (Netherlands)
- Business and human rights expert
U.S. GUN POLICY EXPERTS:
The Honorable Michael D. Barnes
- Former U.S. Congressman (D-MD)
- Former Chairman of Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
- Former President of Brady Center & Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
- Former counsel to government of Haiti
Senator Zelnor Myrie
- New York State Senator
- Leader on gun industry liability legislation
Professor Daniel Webster
- Expert and author on Gun violence
- Co-director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
Dr. Stephen Hargarten
- Gun violence expert
- Doctor and public health expert
- Founder of international gun violence network
Dennis Henigan
- Longtime gun violence prevention lawyer
- Former VP and interim President, Brady Center and Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Margaret Groban
- Former federal prosecutor
- Former National Domestic Violence Coordinator, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of Legal and Victim Programs
Robert Walker
- Former President of Brady Center and Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
- Key lobbyist for enactment of the Brady Law and Federal Assault Weapons ban
- Transnational litigator
- Counsel for Mexico
Kristen Rand
- Legislative and Government Affairs Director, Violence Policy Center
Josh Sugarmann
- Executive Director, Violence Policy Center
EXPERTS ON MEXICO:
Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan
Professor Humberto Cantú Rivera
- Professor at the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Monterrey (Mexico), and Director of its Human Rights and Business Institute
Professor Claudio Lomnitz
- Columbia University
- Expert on Mexico
- Author of multiple books on Mexico
José Ramón Cossío Díaz
- Former Supreme Court of Mexico Justice
- Awarded Benito Juárez-Peña Colorada Award, the Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the National Award for Sciences and Arts in the area of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy
Ambassador Roberta Jacobson
- Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
- Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
- Former United States National Security Council
- Former Director of State Department’s Office of Mexican Affairs
- Albright Stonebridge Group Senior Advisor
- Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Canada
- Former Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy in Peru
John Lindsey-Poland
- Leads Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico
- Professor at Brown University – Watson Institute, International and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology
- Researcher on Mexican-U.S. border issues
- Author of forthcoming book, provisionally titled “Exit Wounds: American Guns, Mexican Lives, and the Vicious Circle of Violence,”
CANADA:
Professor Jason Opal
- Professor at McGill University
Professor Jooyoung Lee
- Professor, University of Toronto
- Sociologist
Wendy Cukier
- Coalition for Gun Control (Canada)
CARIBBEAN
Ambassador Luis Moreno
- Former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica
- Former envoy to Mexico and Haiti
Professor Wendell Wallace
- University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Emile Leiba
- Immediate Past President, Jamaica Bar Association
- Managing Partner, Dunn Cox, Jamaica
AFRICA:
Richard Matzopoulous
- Epidemiologist
- Published articles on Gun violence
Adele Kirsten
- Director, Gun Free South Africa
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND:
Philippa Yasbek
- Gun Control NZ, co-founder
SOUTH AMERICA:
- Senior Adviser, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies