The Complaints Mechanism is supported by an Independent Expert Panel, which decides on the admissibility of a complaint and handles all subsequent processes.
The Panel is formed of three international specialists with expertise and experience in mediation, social and environmental issues, as well as in supporting complaints mechanisms.
Inbal Djalovski is a legal practitioner with a wealth of experience in both domestic and international law, with expertise in international and internal investigations, human rights, ethics and criminal law. She is a Member of the Compliance Review Panel of the Asian Development Bank. Previously, she served as a Prosecution Lawyer with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and as a member of the ICC Disciplinary Advisory Board. Her work spans multiple complex international investigations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as courtroom litigation of a case concerning an elaborate witness corruption scheme. Her experience includes working as a legal adviser to senior Judges at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She is admitted to law in New York (USA) and in Israel, and is a graduate of INSEAD (Executive MBA), Columbia Law School (LLM, with distinction), and Tel-Aviv University (LLB, magna cum laude).
Michael is a well-known expert on realizing human rights. He co-founded FIAN-International (FoodFirst Information and Action Network) and left the organization as Secretary General to become the Human Rights Director of “Brot für die Welt” (Bread for the World). Michael currently works as the Deputy Director of the German Institute for Human Rights, the national human rights institution of Germany
Mrs. Seynabou Benga brings a strong experience to the panel as a human rights and humanitarian law specialist. She is a former Expert Member of the Working Group on Extractive Industries of the African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights. Mrs. Benga is currently the Director of Human Dignity, an NGO promoting economic, social and cultural rights, a lecturer in human rights law and an independent consultant.