Roxanna Altholz
Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Berkeley Law
Roxanna Altholz is an international human rights lawyer and scholar with extensive experience in international and national fora. Prof. Altholz has won several groundbreaking judgments from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, provided expert testimony before UN human rights groups, and initiated legal actions on behalf of human rights victims in US federal courts. She has also developed advocacy and research initiatives to address human rights violations suffered by immigrant communities in California’s Central Valley, to understand accountability mechanisms for private companies receiving international financing, and to improve the effectiveness of the Inter-American human rights system.
Prior to teaching at Berkeley, Prof. Altholz served as a legal advisor for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (1999-2000) and a staff attorney at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Washington, DC (2000-2005). At CEJIL, she handled a docket comprised of approximately 40 cases involving massacres, extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances and discrimination in Colombia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador before the Inter-American human rights system.
Prof. Altholz holds a BA from Brown University and a JD from UC Berkeley.
El Cid Butuyan
Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
El Cid Butuyan is the Co-Chair of the ABA International Committee-Criminal Justice Section and a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches a seminar on transnational corruption.
Mr. Butuyan served as Head of Investigations for the East Asia and Pacific region at the World Bank, Integrity Vice-Presidency (INT), based in Washington DC, where he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of fraud and corruption. He previously served as a member of the Prosecution Panel in the historic impeachment of a former Philippine President for grand corruption. In 2016, Mr. Butuyan was appointed as Competition Commissioner to help establish the antitrust agency in Philippine.
Mr. Butuyan holds an LLB from the University of the Philippines and an LLM from Harvard Law School.
Leo Cunningham
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Leo Cunningham is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s litigation department with more than 25 years’ of experience trying criminal and civil cases in state and federal courts and before arbitrators. He brings the judgment of a trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor to all manner of client challenges, including the defense of white collar crimes and responding to government investigations related to such matters as healthcare, antitrust, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and export-control violations. He also has substantial experience conducting internal investigations, defending civil securities cases and qui tam actions, and trying intellectual property disputes.
Mr. Cunningham joined the firm as a litigator after clerking for a federal judge in the trial court for the Northern District of California. He left the firm for eight years to serve as a federal criminal prosecutor in the Northern District of California, where he conducted grand jury investigations, tried cases before federal juries in San Jose, and argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Since returning to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in 1997, he has represented companies, officers, directors, and attorneys in all manner of sensitive disputes.
In 2006, Mr. Cunningham was honored by California Lawyer magazine as an Attorney of the Year for winning a trial in Miami on behalf of victims of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s human-rights atrocities. He also has been recognized in Northern California Super Lawyers for business litigation and white collar criminal defense.
Mr. Cunningham is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
Hana Ivanhoe
Lecturer, Berkeley Law
Hana Ivanhoe is a Lecturer at Berkeley Law where she teaches classes on US legal scholarship and US and international laws governing corruption. Having worked on matters of trade and development from both the public and private sector perspectives, Hana’s scholarship focuses on business and human rights and corporate corruption, with an emphasis on the corporate duty to respect in the context of international development and our increasingly globalized world.
Prof. Ivanhoe is a Fellow with Berkeley Law’s Business in Society Institute, where she has researched, written and supervised student work in the area of human rights due diligence, supply chain management and corporate compliance. She also advises and consults for international NGOs on issues related to business and human rights.
Before joining Berkeley Law, Prof. Ivanhoe with a number of international organizations advancing human rights and development efforts. Most notably, she co-founded and ran the first and only US office of Dutch advocacy NGO, Fairfood International. She has also advised corporate clients on matters of anti- corruption and international trade compliance as an attorney with Baker & McKenzie LLP in its San Francisco, California office.
Prof. Ivanhoe has a Juris Doctor from Berkeley Law (University of California, Berkeley) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an active member of the California State Bar Association since 2008.
Amelia Miazad
Director, Business in Society Institute, Berkeley Law
Amelia Miazad is the founding Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Business in Society Institute at Berkeley Law. The Institute studies the changing role that companies are playing in society, a topic that is being debated by legal scholars, policy makers, courts, the media, and corporate leaders. The Business in Society Institute’s mission is to prepare lawyers to address this new landscape. In furtherance of this mission, Ms. Miazad teaches courses, and leads the institute’s research, curriculum development, and programming. Before beginning her work in higher education, Amelia practiced law for nearly ten years.
She holds a JD from Berkeley Law.
Zorka Milin
Senior Legal Advisor, Global Witness
Zorka Milin is a senior legal advisor with the non-profit organization Global Witness, working to improve transparency and accountability in the extraction of natural resources.
She is originally from Serbia and has practiced international tax law for six years with two major global law firms. She frequently speaks on transparency, grand corruption and tax justice and has given numerous invited addresses, including at the World Bank, University of Vienna, University of California in Los Angeles, George Washington University and Yale University. She has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC, Guardian, Bloomberg, AFP and more.
Ms. Milin holds a BA in mathematics from Grinnell College, JD and LLM from Cornell Law School, and MA in international relations from Yale University.
Dan Seltzer
Managing Director, Accenture
Dan Seltzer is a Managing Director and the Global Lead for Anticorruption and Government Compliance at Accenture. Mr. Seltzer is directly responsible for ensuring the company’s compliance in all interactions with the government by its 400,000+ employees working in more than 120 countries. He oversees a large team of attorneys working around the globe in developing company policy relating to anticorruption and government compliance, designing and delivering training, conducting legal compliance monitoring, vetting the company’s external contractors and business partners, and serving as the subject matter expert on anticorruption and government compliance for his colleagues in legal, as well as the business. In 2017, the Association of Corporate Counsel recognized him as one of the world’s Top 10 attorneys in their 30s.
Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Seltzer was Senior Compliance Counsel to Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett-Packard); a senior associate in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in white-collar criminal investigations and defense; and a law clerk to a federal judge in Los Angeles. During his career, he has conducted investigations and spearheaded compliance initiatives on every continent other than Antarctica, and has personally delivered training on compliance issues in more than twenty countries around the world.
Mr. Seltzer holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College and a JD from the University of Southern California Law School.
Stacey M. Sprenkel
Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Stacey Sprenkel is the head of the Litigation Department in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office and is a member of the firm’s global anti-corruption and compliance team. She has extensive experience conducting corporate internal investigations on a broad range of issues both domestically and internationally, and she regularly assists clients with conducting global risk assessments, and with developing compliance programs, including reviewing and implementing anti-corruption and other compliance policies, controls, and training programs. She conducts anti-corruption due diligence in connection with M&A and private equity transactions, and provides counseling on a broad range of compliance issues.
As a member of the Securities Litigation, Enforcement and White-Collar Defense Group, Ms. Sprenkel represents companies, audit committees, special litigation committees, officers and directors in connection with securities class actions, derivative actions, SEC and DOJ investigations and enforcement proceedings, and other complex commercial litigation involving False Claims Act, civil RICO, and antitrust matters.
Ms. Sprenkel was most recently named to the 2018 list of the “Top 40 Under 40” lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and was also previously recognized by the publication as being among the “Top Five Associates to Watch” in California in 2013 as part of the publication’s annual “20 Under 40” list, which highlights California’s emerging legal leaders.
Ms. Sprenkel holds a BA from UC Berkeley, MSc from the London School of Economics, and JD from Columbia Law School.
Iván Velásquez Gómez
High Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), United Nations
Iván Velásquez Gómez is the Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) established by the United Nations. Despite its success in fighting corruption and being defended by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, the CICIG is now under the threat of termination by Guatemala’s President, Jimmy Morales.
Before heading the CICIG, Mr. Velásquez served as an assistant judge in Colombia’s Supreme Court from 2000 to 2012. During that time, he coordinated the Commission of Investigation Support, where he investigated links between members of Colombia’s Congress and paramilitary groups. The Commission’s work has led to the sentencing of approximately 50 members of Congress.
From 1997 to 1999, he was the regional director of the Public Prosecution Office of Medellin. In this capacity, Mr. Velásquez conducted investigations that identified 43 shell companies and 495 bank accounts in the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba that paramilitary groups had used to hold more than 25 billion pesos. He has also served as the Public Prosecutor for the Department of Antioquia and a litigator at and director of the Antioquia Bar Association, COLEGAS.
Between 1991 and 1994, Mr. Velásquez served as Deputy Prosecutor of Antioquia, where he initiated investigations related to torture, extrajudicial executions and abuses against the civilian population. In this position, he managed to consolidate the Permanent Office of Human Rights of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office, which dealt with reports of serious violations of Human Rights. He also promoted the Inter-Institutional Committee on Human Rights, in which social organizations, the Catholic Church and authorities participated.
Mr. Velásquez received the World Human Rights Prize presented by the International Bar Association (IBA) in 2011 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2012 for his commitment in the fight against impunity and respect for fundamental rights.
Mr. Velásquez holds a law degree from the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia.