John Packer

Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (Canada). Previously, Professor Packer taught at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and at the University of Essex, held Fellowships at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, and has lectured at academic and professional institutions around the world. Over his 35-year career, he has been an inter-governmental official for 20 years (UNHCR, ILO, OHCHR, UNDPA, OSCE) and has advised numerous governments, communities and other actors in over fifty countries including Ukraine from its 1996 post-Soviet Constitution, the 1998 Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and various Ukrainian institutions, policies and laws, as well as Ukraine’s bi- and multi-lateral relations. Professor Packer has advised on various issues of education notably in diverse societies, and in 2022 he Chaired the International Expert Group appointed to revise UNESCO’s 1974 Recommendation on Education for Peace and Human Rights.