Chris Mahony


Chris Mahony is a former rugby union player for the Auckland Air New Zealand Cup team, playing fullback centre or wing. He played for Oxford University where he has completed a Masters in African Studies and a DPhil in Politics.

Education

Manony holds Bachelor of Commerce and of Laws degrees from the University of Otago, and a Master’s in African Studies and a D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford.
He was admitted to the bar of the High Court of New Zealand in 2006 where he appeared for the Crown in criminal and refugee matters.

Career

In 2003, Mahony drafted recommendations on governance and corruption for the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2008, he directed the Witness Evaluation Legacy Project at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Between 2012-2013, he served as Deputy Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice at Auckland University, Faculty of Law.
2015 to 2018, Mahony was consultant adviser to the UNDP on approaches to conflict prevention and transitional justice. In 2017, he instructed at Peking University Law School.
Mahony serves as deputy director of Auckland University Law School's New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice. He teaches international human rights and international criminal law while completing his doctorate at the University of Oxford. Now Dr. Christopher B. Mahony is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy and Visiting Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. He functions as Political Economy Adviser at the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank, where he formerly served as Criminal Justice and Citizen Security Specialist 2014-2015.

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