Jean Claude Barakamfitiye is the Burundi IBJ program Country manager. He oversees the team of lawyers who grant legal aid to vulnerable people and coordinates the training and capacity building sessions as well as roundtable discussions between lawyers, judges and other judicial actors. He is a graduate of the Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Program of the School for International Training (SIT, USA Vermont). He holds a Masters’ degree in intellectual Property from Africa University (Mutare, Zimbabwe) and a law degree from the University of Burundi. His commitment to human rights is rooted in extracurricular activities through the UNESCO Club while he was still in high school. He officially delved into human rights defense in 2008 when he received the Janusz KORCZAK Award for the Rights of the Child. He is a lawyer registered with the Burundi Bar Association, a member of East African Law Society.
