Michel Ndayikengurukiye
Summary
TRILINGUAL: ENGLISH, FRENCH AND KISWAHILI
FREELANCE TRANSLATOR: ENGLISH INTO FRENCH
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
LEGAL EXPERT
AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES
- 01.2015
SENIOR RESEARCHER
COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE, THE WESRTERN CAPE
05.2013 - 02.2014
- Drafted the General Comment on Article 6 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which was considered and adopted by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in April 2014.
RESEARCH OFFICER
EAST, COURT
05.2008 - 04.2013
- Drafted judgments and rulings of the Court
- Serviced meetings and sessions of the Court and wrote minutes and reports thereof
- Acted as secretary to all Court Committees: Planning and Training Committee, Rules Committee and Finance and Administration Committee
- Developped project proposals for funding by Development Partners
- Member of the Court’s Editorial Committee that developed the first Compendium of the Court’s cases
- Participated in the development of the Court’s Strategic Plan 2010
secretary
01.2007 - 04.2008
- To the Court and to all Court Committees: Planning and Training Committee, Rules Committee and Finance and Administration Committee
- Participated in the negotiation of the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights
- Participated in the negotiation of the Headquarters Agreement between the African Union and the United Republic of Tanzania on the Hosting of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Drafted the 2007 annual report of the Court for presentation before the African Union Executive Council and Assembly of Heads of State and Governments
LEGAL INTERN
AFRICAN UNION
05.2006 - 12.2006
- Drafted Inter-Office Memos
- Drafted legal opinions for the Office of the Legal Council
- Reviewed legal instruments such as Protocols, contracts and memoranda of understanding
- Coordinated a meeting of African high level experts on the negotiation of options for trial of Mr
- Hissène Habré, former President of Tchad
LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ADVISOR
INTERCONTACT SERVICES BURUNDI
03.2002 - 12.2004
- Served as an in-house Counsel for the Company, mainly providing legal opinions to the senior management and corporate customers and participating in mediation processes between the staff of our corporate customers and their respective employers
- Most of our corporate customers were international NGOs such as World Vision, Care, Dorcas Aid, CRS; JRS, IRC and Oxfam Quebec
- CONSULTANCIES
- Norwegian Registers Development (NRD) AS: reviewed the legal framework of the Kingdom of Lesotho and make recommendations thereon to ensure that it can sustain the e-government infrastructure that was being supplied and installed by NRD AS
- In that regard I reviewed the ICT Policy, 2005, the Communications Policy 2008, Data Protection Act, 2012, the E-Transaction and E-Commerce Bill, the Computer Crime and Cybercrime Bill 2013, and the Credit Reporting Act, 2011.
PRINCIPAL LEGAL OFFICER
03.2014 - 1 1
- Supervise the work of 3 Senior Legal Officers and 1 Legal Officer;
- Manage, coordinate and implement 2 capacity building programs one on judicial training for EAC Partner States judges and judicial officers and another on harmonisation of national laws in the EAC context and carry out resource mobilisation for both projects;
- Acts as Legal department focal Point for monitoring the implementation of the decisions an directives of the Summit of Heads of State, the Council of Ministers using the East African Community Monitoring System (EAMS) which is a monitoring software;
- Give written or onspot legal advice during regional experts, senior management and policy making meetings at all levels of the governments of the EAC Partner States
- Participate in the planning coordination and report writing for many meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops
- Prepare the Annual Operational Plan and budget for the legal department using the EAC Budget Management System (BMS), defend it before the Council of Ministers, and coordinate the execution of the same
- Conduct and coordinate litigation before the East African Court of Justice
- Participated in the planning, coordination of the 5th Edition of the EAC Cultural Festival (JAMAFEST), Election Observation and Peace Caravan and Benchmarking Tour to the Maasai Community of Kenya and Tanzania for Border Communitites on the trijunction of Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda
- Participated in many donor meetings such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, KfW, USAID, Enabel and GIZ and negotiated many multimillion dollar funding agreements with them
- Participated in the development of the EAC gender and child policies;
- Participated in the negotiation of many Protocols including Annex VII to the Common Market Protocol (Mutual Recognition of Academic and Professional Qualifications Regulations), Community Laws, Rules and Regulations
- Participated in the development of the EAC Development Strategies, strategic plans and work plans in many sectors, including resource mobilization, Health, and gender and community development.
Education
Masters - Law in Technology and Intellectual Property Law
University of Liverpool
2013
Master - Law in Human Rights and Democratization
University of Pretoria
2005
Bachelor of law - undefined
Université du Burundi
2004
LLM - Technology and Intellectual Property Law
MICHEL NDAYIKENGURUKIYE
LLM - Human Rights
LLB (Bachelor of Law) - undefined
Skills
- Legal drafting
- Legal advice to Senior Management and Policy Organs
- Negotiation
- Legal Research
- Litigation
- Legal Analysis
- Legal Compliance
- Presentation
- Reporting
Timeline
PRINCIPAL LEGAL OFFICER
03.2014 - 1 1
SENIOR RESEARCHER
COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE, THE WESRTERN CAPE
05.2013 - 02.2014
RESEARCH OFFICER
EAST, COURT
05.2008 - 04.2013
secretary
01.2007 - 04.2008
LEGAL INTERN
AFRICAN UNION
05.2006 - 12.2006
LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ADVISOR
INTERCONTACT SERVICES BURUNDI
03.2002 - 12.2004
LEGAL EXPERT
AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES
- 01.2015
Masters - Law in Technology and Intellectual Property Law
University of Liverpool
Master - Law in Human Rights and Democratization
University of Pretoria
Bachelor of law - undefined
Université du Burundi
LLM - Technology and Intellectual Property Law
MICHEL NDAYIKENGURUKIYE
LLM - Human Rights
LLB (Bachelor of Law) - undefined
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