Professional profile
Tamara Cummings-John is currently a Senior Human Resources Officer at the World Food Programme in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is also a Steering Committee member of the UN People of African Descent.
Previously, she worked as a Human Resources Specialist for UN Women’s East and Southern Africa Regional Office based in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to that, she served as a Legal Officer in the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations in New York, where she managed the UN’s cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
She spent six years at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, working as part of prosecution teams on the Karemera case, the Charles Taylor case and the AFRC case.
She studied at the University of Manchester, the Université de Bourgogne and the College of Law, Store Street. She also holds a Master’s in International and Comparative Legal Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.