Professor Olympia Bekou is Professor of Public International Law and Head of the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, where she specialises in International criminal law. She is Deputy Director of the Case Matrix Network, a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP), and Editor of the Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP). She is also a member of the Executive Board of Civitas Maxima. Professor Bekou has undertaken numerous capacity-building missions, including in post-conflict situations (such as Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda), has provided legislation drafting assistance to Samoa and Jamaica, and has been involved in training the Thai judiciary.