Participated in the 9th edition of the African Human Rights Moot Court competition in 2000 (Accra, Ghana)
Godfrey Odongo is a Senior Program Officer and manages funding portfolios and partnerships that support increased capacities of ecosystems of civil society organisations advancing human rights norms at Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, a private grant making foundation based in New York. Odongo has previously served as a visiting research fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, as regional research expert with Amnesty International’s International Secretariat; program advisor with Save the Children-Sweden and in research fellowship roles with the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape and the Danish Institute for Human Rights. An advocate of the High Court of Kenya, since 2003, he holds a doctorate (LLD) in international human rights law from the University of the Western Cape, an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria, a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) from Moi University, Kenya and a postgraduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law. He is editor and author of several peer- reviewed book chapters, journal articles and research reports on a range of human rights issues particularly socio-economic and children’s human rights from an African perspective.
