John Packer is Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, Canada. From 2014 to July 2025, he was also Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at uOttawa. Prior to taking up his uOttawa position, he held positions in Human Rights and Law at the University of Essex (UK), the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University (USA), the Carr Center in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. For 20 years, he held appointments in intergovernmental organisations (UNHCR, ILO, OHCHR, UNDPA/DPPA, OSCE) investigating serious human rights violations and advising on peace mediations and political transitions (including constitutional and legal reforms) in over fifty countries, notably in situations of intense inter-community disputes. He continues to advise in active conflicts in the world.  He has published and lectured around the world, edits leading human and minority rights journals, is a member of numerous professional associations, and is a member of advisory boards of several non-governmental organisations.  As Senior Legal Adviser then the first Director in the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (1995-2004), he advised in numerous post Cold War transitions including the Baltic States, much of the former Soviet Union, and across Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere.  Since 2022, Professor Packer has been the Special Adviser to the joint Conciliation Resources and Sasakawa Peace Foundation project on Mediating Self-Determination Conflicts and, since December 2023, he has been a member of the International Expert Group on Peace for Ukraine established at the request of the President of Ukraine.  In February 2025, he was appointed by Canada’s Foreign Minister as a member of her Standing Table on Human Rights.  He is also an advisor to the Club de Madrid comprising over 125 former Heads of State or Government of democracies.