Biography
Christina Murray is a South African whose field of expertise is constitution-making processes and constitutional design. She is Professor Emeritus of Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Cape Town. Between 2014 and 2024 she served on the Mediation Support Standby Team of UN DPPA. In addition, among other things, she was a member of the Panel of Experts advising the South African Constitutional Assembly (1994-1996), a member of the Committee of Experts that prepared the 2010 Constitution of Kenya, and a member of the Constitution Commission of Fiji (2012). She has engaged with politicians and negotiating parties, mediators, and members of civil society on matters relating to political and constitutional arrangements in Yemen, Egypt, Lesotho, Libya, Nepal, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar and Zimbabwe, among other places.
