HRC Consultant Profile

Andrew Kelly has British and Irish citizenship. He was educated at the University of Padua, Italy (European Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, 1998); the University of Edinburgh, UK (Master of Laws, 1992); and the University of Aberdeen, UK (Bachelor of Law, 1991). He worked in the Legal Office and the Press Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, London, UK, 1993-1994; Source Magazine, Edinburgh, UK, 1995-1997; the University of Padova, Italy, 1998-1999; the Delegations of the European Commission to the United Nations in New York, USA and Geneva, Switzerland, 1999-2000; the European Human Rights Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (Technical Assistance Office of the European Commission), 2000-2001; and the Human Rights and Democratisation Unit, External Relations Directorate General of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 2001-2003.

His work at the European Commission included programming and budgetary planning for the EU human rights and democracy budget chapter (the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights); management of the EU budget line supporting the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation; design of the European Commission staff training programme in human rights; project evaluation and assessment; and programming/project identification missions to Burundi, Pakistan, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

Andrew Kelly has been a visiting lecturer at the European Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, University of Padua at Venice, Italy. His publications include an article in Index on Censorship (Index 1-2, 1994, 224-226) on the human rights implications of limiting trial by jury.

He joined Human Rights Consultants in April 2003.

Andrew.Kelly@HumanRightsConsultants.Org

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