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The group of experts is composed of members of the relevant organs, agencies and entities of the OAS, OAS Member States, and civil society organizations. Participation in the drafting committee is strictly in member’s individual capacities as experts interested in furthering the right of access to information in the Americas. To foster the freest exchange of opinion and ideas, all presentations, comments and documents presented by individual members are not for attribution to their respective governments and/or organizations..
The members of the
group of experts are:
• Karina Banfi, Regional Alliance on Access to Information
• Leslie Bar-Ness, Manager, State Government Relations, Symantec
Corporation
• Eduardo Bertoni, Director, Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression
and Access to Information, School of Law, Universidad de Palermo
• Catalina Botero, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Rapporteurship on Freedom of Expression, OAS
• Michael Camilleri, Attorney, Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights: Rapporteurship on Freedom of Expression, OAS
• Sandra Coliver, Senior Legal Officer for Freedom of Information and
Expression, Open Society Justice Initiative
• Damian Cox, Director, Access to Information Unit, Office of the Prime
Minister, Jamaica
• Diego Garcia-Sayan, Vice-President, Inter-American Court of Human
Rights
• Annie Goranson, Discovery Attorney, Symantec Corporation
• Patricia Milagros Guillén Nolasco, Counselor at the Secretariat of
Public Management, Peru
• Edison Lanza, Regional Alliance on Access to Information
• María Marván Laborde, Information Commissioner, Federal Institute for
Access to Public Information (IFAI), Mexico
• Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Center for Law and Democracy
• Alejandra Negrete Morayta, Attorney, Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights: Rapporteurship on Freedom of Expression, OAS
• Laura Neuman, Associate Director for the Americas Program and the
Access to Information Project Manager, the Carter Center
• Juan Pablo Olmedo, President, Consejo para la Transparencia, Chile
• Maria del Carmen Palau, Department of State Modernization and
Governability, Secretariat of Political Affairs, OAS
• Darian Pavli, Legal Officer for Freedom of Expression and Information,
Open Society Justice Initiative
• Issa Luna Pla, Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, UNAM, Mexico /
American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
• Melanie Ann Pustay, Director of the Office of Information Policy,
United States Department of Justice, USA
• Andrea Paola Ruiz Rosas, Chief of the Normative and Regulatory Unit of
the Consejo para la Transparencia, Chile
• Pablo Saavedra, Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• David Stewart, Member, Inter-American Juridical Committee, OAS
• Natalia Torres, Researcher, Center for Studies on Freedom of
Expression and Access to Information, School of Law, Universidad de
Palermo, Argentina
• Josée Villeneuve, Director of Systemic Issues, Policy and
Parliamentary Relations, Office of the Information Commissioner of
Canada
• John Wilson, Senior Legal Advisor, Department of International Law,
Secretariat for Legal Affairs, OAS.