Lex:lead was founded in 2010 to continue the work of the Global Challenge, a group that had formed in 2001 under the International Bar Association to bring lawyers worldwide to the issue of development focusing on the least developed countries. Joining the Global Challenge in 2005, Anne was named its director. In 2010 the founding members set up Lex:lead as a New York Not-for-Profit registered charity with US Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.
(Australia), President/Founder.
Formerly with Allen & Overy and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, London UK.
(Nigeria), First Vice President and Founding Member. Principal with Rudy Ezeani & Co., Lagos, Nigeria.
(USA/Ghana), Vice President elected January 2015, US Federal Government in Washington DC.
(Ethiopia), Vice President elected March 2018, Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Addis Ababa University School of Law, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
(USA/Nigeria), Vice President elected September 2018, with the US Federal Government, Washington DC.
(UK/Nigeria), Vice President elected June 2020, Goldman Sachs, London School of Economics, London UK.
(Germany/UK) (2019), Overseas Development Institute and editor of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, London UK.
(USA), Treasurer. A graduate of Cardozo Law, Senior Legal Analyst with ALM Legal Intelligence, New York, USA.
(Cameroon), Senior Group Secretary. Formerly UN Int'l Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Pan-African Lawyers' Union, Arusha, Tanzania.
(Malawi), Deputy Group Secretary. Formerly UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Tumaini University in Usa River, Tanzania.
(UK) Lex:lead Patron, former UK High Court judge with a family connection to Sierra Leone.
(Germany), Formerly with the UN Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland.
(UK), Director of Strategic Relationships at the Law Society of England and Wales; formerly a partner at Allen & Overy.
(USA) (2019), Africa Practice Coordinator, Jones Day, Washington DC.
(USA/Russia), Vice President and Founding Member, General Counsel and Company Secretary to a technology company, Washington DC.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
LEX:Africa Alliance
Travers Smith
Linklaters
• Dr Sabine Midderhoff (Germany) (2011), GIZ, Lusaka Zambia
• Ms Zara Watkins (USA), Cyberlaw Studio, New York, USA
• Ms Ariuntuya (Ari) Rentsen (Mongolia), Sydney, Australia
• Mr Jérôme Poitou (France/Guadeloupe), New York, USA
• Mr Matthew Weldon (USA), K&L Gates, New York, USA
• Mr Guot Gabriel Manang (South Sudan), Gabriel Law Firm, Juba, South Sudan
• Ms Catherine Maunder (UK), Cardiff, UK
• Mr Francis Sinsai* (Cameroon), Goma, DRC
• Ms Martha Haile (Ethiopia), Washington DC, USA
• Mr Olukayode Majekodunmi (Nigeria/Canada), Canada
• Ms Fatima Paras (Australia), Sydney, Australia
• Ms Ines Chibani (France/Tunisia), Paris
• Ms Pamela Fapohunda (UK/Nigeria), London UK
• Ms Anita Alfred Kyaruzi (Tanzania), Arusha, Tanzania
The group welcomes applications to join its work, typically through appointments to its advisory board. To join us complete the attached form and email it to us at lexlead@yahoo.com. Thank you!
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May 2016: 2014 Winner Bereket Alemayehu Hagos, Is ADR a Knell for Litigation in Africa? See: International Bar Association
Sept 2016: Lex:lead: Foundation Funding Launches Annual Scholarship Competition, See: International Bar Association Foundation
Sept 2017: Charity: Changing Legal Lives, See: Law Society Gazette
July 2019: Taxation in Digital Services: Uganda's Social Media Tax Law, by Moses Baguma, (World Bank Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development newsletter)
July 2019: American Bar Association International Legal Developments Year in Review (2018), Africa (p.465).
Feb 2021: The Legal Impact of Covid19, American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law
"The opportunities and award I got from Lex:lead were indispensable in my progress and I would like to encourage my fellow Lex:leaders to seriously pursue them," 2014 Scholarship Winner and appellate judge Nahom Abraham Weldeabzgi (Eritrea), April 2019.
'[The Lex:lead award helped] a whole lot. If I hadn't paid that much I would have lost my place in school. I would have dropped out [but] paying the money I was awarded [...] bought me some time to source [funds] for this year's registration [...] The award was what helped me.... thank you so much again,' 2017 Scholarship Winner Nkandu Kunda Chota (Zambia), February 2018.
1. International Lawyers for Africa, www.ilfa.org.uk
2. International Law Book Facility, www.ilbf.org.uk
3. Inherit Your Rights, www.inherityourrights.org
4. The Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development (www.globalforumljd.org) (we're a member)