Audrey Glover

Dame Audrey Glover DBE CMG is chairperson of the Council of LINKS. Her main career was as a legal adviser to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office: she served as Director of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from 1993-97. She then led the UK Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission from 1998-2003. As of 2008 Dame Audrey is Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Minister of Human Rights. Glover's role as an international lawyer includes extensive experience in human rights, democracy building and governance. Until 2003 she was leader of the UK delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights. Since February 2004 the FCO has funded her as an adviser to the Iraqi minister for human rights. She is helping to establish the ministry and providing specialist advice in development of human rights. Glover is a member of the advisory boards of The British Institute of Human Rights and Electoral Reform International Services (ERIS), a private company and 'leading provider of specialist electoral and democratisation assistance' that works with the U.S. Agency for International Development. She has also worked as the agent before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights.

More recently, Glover has headed the OSCE/ODIHR EOMs to Belarus (2004), Kazakhstan (2005), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2006) and Ukraine (2007). She has worked in Baghdad as a human rights adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights in 2004, 2005 and 2006. She is married to a former senior career diplomat, Edward Glover, who was British High Commissioner to Guyana and Ambassador to Suriname from 1998 to 2002. Before that he had diplomatic assignments in Canberra, Washington, Berlin and Brussels in between a range of jobs at the FCO in London. Since his departure from the Diplomatic Service in 2003, he has been adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Iraq on management and planning issues and consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macedonia on reorganisation.

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