Richard J. Goldstone joined the Advisory Board in September 2025. Richard was a judge in South Africa for 23 years, the last nine as a Justice of the Constitutional Court. From August 1994 to September 1996, he was the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. After retiring from the bench in 2004, he taught as a visiting professor in a number of United States and European Law Schools. He chaired the Independent Expert Review Group established in December 2019 by the Assembly of States Parties to review the International Criminal Court and Rome Statue system. He chairs the International  Anti-Corruption Court Treaty Drafting Committee established by Integrity Initiatives International.

 

He is an honorary member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and an international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, London and an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is an honorary life member of the International Bar Association and Honorary President of its Human Rights Institute. The awards he has received include the International Human Rights Award of the American Bar Association (1994) and the International Justice Award of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and in December (2009).