Roger Batty
Roger Batty is Chief of Party of the USAID/Timor Leste Justice Institutions Strengthening Project. In his most recent role as Advisor to the Vice-Prime Minister of East Timor, Mr. Batty drafted and directed the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Office of the Provedor and the Office of the Prosecutor General governing investigations of public corruption. He earlier served as anti-corruption adviser to the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice in East Timor. Mr. Batty brings more than 47 years’ experience in law enforcement, including investigations into white-collar crime in the financial sector. He assumed a lead role in the development of both the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong, and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime in Botswana. In recent years he has been consulted by a number of governments and international agencies for advice in the establishment of anti-corruption agencies and operating procedures.
Lucia Garcia
Lucia Garcia served as Chief of Party of USAID/Colombia’s Human Rights Program. She is a candidate for the Doctor in Law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia with specialization in international cooperation and development. Ms. Garcia has more than 10 years experience managing social development programs in Colombia, and is recognized for her finance and administrative experience on justice sector and Human Rights programs. In addition, Ms. Garcia has worked on the design, implementation and management of strategies for Access to Justice and Justice Reform programs. For example, she led the implementation of Colombia’s national Casas de Justicia program in 16 cities, which emphasized alternative conflict resolution and prevention of domestic violence. Ms. Garcia is also a well-known professor of public policy, finance and international affairs.
Linn Hammergren, Ph.D.
Linn Hammergren is an independent consultant specializing in rule of law, anti-corruption, and general governance issues. Until 2008, she was a Senior Public Sector Management Specialist in the World Bank, and before that she spent twelve years managing Administration of Justice Projects for USAID. She has a PhD in Political Science (University of Wisconsin) and taught at Vanderbilt University. Her research and publications focus on judicial politics and reform, public sector and judicial corruption, citizen security, and the politics of foreign assistance. Her publications include The Politics of Justice and Justice Reform in Latin American: Peru in Comparative Perspective; Envisioning Judicial Reform: Improving Court Performance in Latin America; a series of studies for the World Bank on “users and uses of justice” in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and Ethiopia; and a monograph on rule of law indicators for USAID. Her recent work includes a review of Malaysia’s court reform program, assistance to the state of Colima (Mexico) on its judicial modernization project, development of a strategic options paper for New Zealand’s rule of law program in the South Pacific; and assessments for USAID/Colombia on its labor and access to justice programs.
Ruth Sanchez-Way, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, Health and Community Initiatives. Dr. Sanchez-Way is an experienced senior executive with more than thirty years of experience in substance abuse prevention, civil society mobilization, and minority health concerns. Dr. Sanchez-Way is former Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she was responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the activities of approximately 114 employees and a discretionary budget of $175 million. She was instrumental in developing the award-winning ¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina! Program, a public information campaign aimed at Latina girls. She brings grants management, program development, and human resources experience to the sphere of social service delivery mechanisms that support the transition of marginalized populations from program recipients to advocates for improved social services.
Patricia Shields, JD
Patricia Shields is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with extensive expertise in the implementation of Rule of Law programming in Latin America. Ms. Shields began her legal career as a Public Defender, working with the City of Richmond Virginia Public Defender's Office from 1995-1998; she then moved on to a private trial practice through 2003. During her time as a private trial attorney and public defender, she represented hundreds of clients and tried more than 30 cases before juries. Ms. Shields served on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association from 2002-2004. In 2004, she brought her legal expertise to international development work, focusing on rule of law and civil society capacity building programming in Latin America. From 2004 to 2008, Ms. Shields served as the Deputy Director of the Trust for the Americas, an affiliate of Organization of American States. While with the Trust, Ms. Shields oversaw the design and implementation of innovative programming in alternative conflict resolution, and building the strategic litigation and advocacy capacity of civil society organizations representing the most vulnerable. Since 2008, Ms. Shields has served as a freelance consultant to organizations that implement ROL and civil society capacity building programs around the world.
F. Michael Willis, JD
Michael Willis served as Chief of Party of USAID/Colombia’s Access to Justice Program, and is an accomplished private attorney and proven advocate for indigenous populations. He has wide-ranging experience in increasing access to justice for underserved and vulnerable groups in conflict areas in Guatemala and Bolivia. As former Democracy Officer for USAID/Bolivia, Mr. Willis worked to enhance formal and informal justice services and strengthen the justice sector and civil society advocacy for improved justice sectors, and built solid working relationships with governmental counterparts, grassroots and civil society representatives, and other USG actors. In Guatemala, Mr. Willis worked closely with organizations representing the displaced, widows and indigenous communities in advocacy seeking to address impunity and foster accountability of Guatemala's emerging democratic institutions. He speaks fluent Spanish.
