International Criminal Court Bar Association

JENS DIECKMANN

Jens Dieckmann is a German Lawyer. He is Founding and Senior Partner of Becher&Dieckmann in Bonn (Germany) as well as Associate Member of Chamber 9BR International (London, UK). Jens Dieckmann can offer clients more than 27 years of high level international litigation and negotiation practice in high profile cases. He has worked in and lead international teams of lawyers at various international criminal tribunals. In addition, he has a varied national and international practice as Counsel in International Human Rights Law as well as Asylum and Immigration Law. He provides consultancy to Governments and NGOs in the field of International Criminal Law and Asylum Law. He is appointed to the Expert Commission on Asylum by the Federal Board of Amnesty International, Germany. Since 2006, he is an elected member of the Board of ADC-ICT. In 2015/16, he was a member of the Drafters Committee and the Interim Board of the ICCBA. He served the ICCBA inter alia as Vice President for Victims (2017/2018 and 2018/2019) and was Chair of the Victims Committee in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. He was member of the Executive Council 2016-2019 and of the Victims Committee 2023/2024. Since 2011 he is CLR, Associate Counsel, for Victims in the ICC Banda Case.

MARIE-HÉLÈNE PROULX

Marie-Hélène Proulx is a lawyer admitted to the Québec Bar since 2003, and a former President of the ICCBA. She is an Associate Tenant at 33 Bedford Row Chambers in London where she specialises in strategic human rights litigation. She represented several accused persons before international tribunals, including Patrice-Édouard Ngaïssona, Dominic Ongwen, Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz at the ICC, and Hassan Habib Merhi before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. She was also appointed Ad Hoc Counsel at the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence and acted as Rule 74 Legal Adviser at the ICC. She acted as Counsel for Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, and is currently a pro bono Counsel for Mr. Siméon Nchamihigo and Jean-Baptiste Gatété before the IRMCT. She also worked as a Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and at the ICC, Teaching Assistant at the University of Geneva and Legal Adviser at the ICRC Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Headquarters. She obtained a law degree from the Université de Montréal (Canada) as well as a LL.M from the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law (now Geneva Academy).

JUAN CARLOS MANRÍQUEZ

Chilean Lawyer, with 30 years of experience, Professor of Economic Criminal Law, Litigation, Cybercrimes, Data Protection and Privacy in Criminal Proceedings, and International Criminal Law in Universidad Catolica de Chile (LLM) and Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (Chile). Lecturer and Speaker in different Congress and Doctoral and Magister Programs in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Spain, etc. Litigator, LLM (California Western School of Law, San Diego, USA, 2016); Specialist in Economic and Corporates Criminal Law (Universidad Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, 2011); Advanced Diploma in International Criminal Law and before the International Courts (The Syracuse Institute, Italy, 2018); Legal Advisor for Senate and Deputies Chamber in Chile. Former President of Valparaiso Bar Association (many periods), Chile. Full member of ICCBA, and Counsel before ICC – CPI (admitted in 2018), Member of AFBA, Member of Privacy Rules International.​

ANAND A. SHAH

Anand A. Shah is an American attorney, and presently Associate Counsel on the team of the Common Legal Representative of Victims in the Abd-Al-Rahman (“Ali Kushayb”) trial before the ICC. Prior to this he assisted in the representation of defendants in the Darfur, Kenya and Libya Situations before the ICC, in cases before the STL, and acted as counsel before the ICC Disciplinary Board. He is the current ICCBA Vice President for Victims, and has previously served on the Executive Council, as well as the following Committees: Victims, Professional Standards, Amicus, Legal Advisory, and Counsel Support Staff. He has also taken a leading role on ICCBA working groups addressing matters of legal aid, taxation, and work place harassment.

INGO KLAUS WAMSER

Ingo Klaus Wamser is admitted to the German bar since 2005 and was awarded the title of a Certified Criminal Law Specialist by the Munich bar in 2009. He is working on criminal law, cross-border and international criminal law and extradition cases before national courts and was appointed as duty counsel before the International Criminal Court. He is a specialist in disciplinary and contempt cases, served as Alternate Commissioner at the ICC, co-drafted the Code of Conduct for Counsel at the KSC, serves as disciplinary judge in Germany in his third term and in disciplinary related positions in international bar associations. As a founding member of the ICCBA Ingo contributed to the Membership and Professional Standards Advisory Committees in previous years. He is co-author of a commentary on the German Federal Lawyer’s Act, published on international and national criminal law topics and was lector for international law at an Austrian state university.