Impact of Impunity for Europe and Beyond

Oksana Pokalchuk is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Co-Executive Director of Truth Hounds, an investigative NGO documenting international crimes committed during Russia’s war against Ukraine. She has previously worked at the European Court of Human Rights and served as Executive Director of Amnesty International Ukraine. Her work lies at the intersection of legal accountability, documentation, and international advocacy, advancing justice through global solidarity and international legal mechanisms.

Dr Tsvetelina van Benthem is a lecturer in Law and Technology at the University of Reading School of Law and a lecturer in international law at the University of Oxford. She is a senior legal adviser at The Reckoning Project. Tsvetelina is a generalist international lawyer specialising in international humanitarian law, human rights law and international criminal law.

Zera Kozlyieva is the Legal Director at Truth Hounds, a Ukrainian investigative NGO documenting war crimes and other international crimes committed during Russia’s war against Ukraine. A former prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, she has extensive experience in international legal cooperation, parliamentary engagement, and the investigation of crimes committed in occupied territories. At Truth Hounds, she coordinates legal investigations, works on universal jurisdiction cases, and trains investigators, prosecutors, and judges on international humanitarian and criminal law. She is a Crimean Tatar and has been focused on accountability for crimes related to the occupation of Crimea and the war since 2014.

Wendy Betts is an expert in documenting, analyzing, and preserving evidence of human rights violations and international crimes and ensuring the information is used effectively for accountability. She is currently the Legal Director for The Reckoning Project and a consultant to the Oxford Institute for Justice and Technology. She previously served on the Legal and Policy Advisory Council of the Conflict Observatory, a consortium that investigated and reported on alleged war crimes in Ukraine and Sudan. Prior to that, she was the founding Director of eyeWitness to Atrocities, an organisation that combines law and technology to promote accountability for serious international crimes. eyeWitness was awarded the 2016 Innovation in Global Security Prize from the Global Centre for Security Policy. Additionally, Wendy has worked as the Director of the American Bar Association War Crimes Documentation Project, overseeing projects in the Balkans and west Africa. She has also served on the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Dr Nigel Gould-Davies is Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He previously served in the British Foreign Office as head of the Economic Section in Moscow (2003–2007), Ambassador to Belarus (2007–2009), and project director in the Strategy Unit. He has held senior government relations positions in the energy industry, and taught at Oxford University. He is author of Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation (Brookings, 2019). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.