RCL Lunch Meeting – Prof. Luis Franceschi

Prof Luis G. Franceschi, is the Assistant Secretary General of the Commonwealth.

He coordinates the Political, Democracy, Electoral, Public-Sector Governance, Good Offices,
Rule of Law, Judicial Transformation, Human Rights, and Countering Violence and
Extremism work in the 56 member countries. He is also the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) Conference Secretary, and the Head of the Host Country
Task Force.
As a thinker, educator, and writer, he loves positive and disruptive innovation.

He specialises in judicial transformation, comparative constitutional law and innovation in
legal education. He has been a legal advisor to several international and national
government agencies, regional courts, and legal advisor to the United Nations and the
World Bank.

He sits on several boards and has been a Governing Council Delegate and the
Legal Advisor to the President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment
Programme, where he co-drafted the UN Nairobi Declaration.