Kate Vigneswaran is an Australian qualified lawyer and an international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law expert with over 15 years of experience advocating for accountability for violations of international law in multiple country contexts. Kate joined GRC in 2021 to assist with leading its “Accountability for Mass Starvation” project and strategy and business development. Previously, Kate worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (‘ICTY’) on numerous trial and appeal cases, as a senior expert with the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (‘UNODC’) on multi-year programmes in Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia, and as a legal advisor to the UK Ministry of Justice’s Human Rights Unit. She has also worked with numerous human rights NGOs documenting and reporting on violations and abuses of international humanitarian and human rights law in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, amongst others; building the capacity of justice system actors and civil society to address impunity; and advocating for reforms of law, policies and practices necessary to prevent, deter and remedy crimes.