Mr. Cephas Lumina - CV

Mr. Lumina is a professor of Law from Zambia, currently teaching as Visiting Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden. Mr. Lumina holds an LLB (with Merit) from the University of Zambia, LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, PhD in international human rights law from Griffith University in Australia and an Advanced Diploma in International Human Rights Law from Abo Akademi University in Finland. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Griffith University and specialist qualifications in international humanitarian law and environmental litigation and advocacy. Dr Lumina is an Advocate of the High Court for Zambia (called to the bar in 1986) and has over 20 years’ legal research, practice and teaching experience in several countries, including Australia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zambia.

He was appointed Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights by the Human Rights Council in March 2008 and assumed his functions on 1 May 2008.