{"id":416,"date":"2025-03-22T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlsorgs3stg.wpenginepowered.com\/adc\/?p=416"},"modified":"2025-03-24T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T06:33:05","slug":"prof-luis-gabriel-franceschi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/adc\/prof-luis-gabriel-franceschi\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Luis Gabriel Franceschi"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1738300843920{background: #7A0F23 url(https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/adc\/files\/2025\/01\/conference-1_1.jpg?id=368) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:center|color:%23FFFFFF” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1738300935382{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”space_top_custom”][vc_single_image image=”366″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1738153216866{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Africa Development Conference 2025″ font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%23FFC500″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”main_title_up”][vc_custom_heading text=”Africa by 2040: The Future of Africa’s Youth” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23FFFFFF” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1741372403143{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”main_title”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_custom_heading text=”April 11 to April 12, 2025″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23FFFFFF” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1738235103522{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”main_title”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_btn title=”Get Tickets” color=”orange” size=”lg” align=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fadc2025.eventbrite.com|target:_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23FFFFFF” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1738154528974{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”space_custom”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1742487099284{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background: #7A0F23 url(https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/adc\/files\/2025\/01\/Asset-5bg.png?id=325) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1737987321628{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1738423243812{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;background-color: #DD9933 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” gap=”10″][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1742559183632{border-radius: 15px !important;}” el_class=”tagline_img”][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” gap=”10″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”white_txt”]Prof Luis Gabriel Franceschi, LLB, LL.M, LL.D is the Assistant Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of 56 countries, 2.7 billion people, one third of the world. He coordinates the Political, Democracy, Electoral, Public Sector Governance, Peace, Rule of Law, Judicial Transformation, Human Rights, and Countering Violence and Extremism work in the 56 member countries. He is also the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – CHOGM Conference Secretary, and, together with the Head of the Host Country Task Force, oversees the organisation and negotiations throughout the meeting.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”white_txt”]Prof Franceschi is a Kenyan Advocate and he was the founding Dean of Strathmore University Law School, in Nairobi. As a thinker, educator and writer, he loves positive and disruptive innovation. [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”white_txt”]He was made a Chevalier by the President of Gabon with the Ordre National du M\u00e9rite for his outstanding achievements. He was also the recipient of the 2019 legal excellence CB Madan Award and the 2018 Utumishi Bora National Award. In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and U.C. Berkeley Law School in California. His area of expertise focuses on innovation in legal education, judicial transformation, peace negotiations, and comparative constitutional law. He has written widely on the convergence between Constitutional law and Public International Law \u201cthe constitutional regulation of the foreign affairs power\u201d. He has been a legal advisor to several national and international government agencies, commissions and programmes, including international and regional courts, the United Nations and the World Bank. He sits on several boards and he has also conducted executive leadership courses for CEOs in several countries. He has been a Governing Council Delegate and the Legal Advisor to the President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, where he co-drafted the UN Nairobi Declaration.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”white_txt”]He has published widely on constitutional law, political and international issues. He was also a weekly columnist with the Daily Nation Newspaper (Kenya) for almost 10 years.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”white_txt”]Prof Franceschi likes cycling, running and mountain climbing and has reached Point Lenana, Mt Kenya (5000 Meters ASL) 5 times, Uhuru Peak on Kilimanjaro (5895 Meters ASL) and the Rwenzori Mountains circuit (Uganda-Congo). He is a Kenyan citizen and currently resides in London, where the Commonwealth Secretariat has its headquarters.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1738065167684{background-color: #7A0F23 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Contact Details” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23FFC500″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”main_title”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_row_inner gap=”15″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-envelope” color=”custom” background_style=”rounded-less” background_color=”custom” align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” custom_color=”#FFFFFF” custom_background_color=”#91123E”][vc_custom_heading text=”Mail us” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:center|color:%23FFC500″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”main_title”][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”” el_class=”white_txt”]<\/p>\n

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