PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY - Inter-Parliamentary Union

MS. MARTA LAGOS CRUZ-COKE
Executive Director of LatinoBarometro
Marta Lagos has worked in the public opinion field since 1984, firstly at the Centro de
Estudios de la Realidad Contemporánea (CERC), where she was director from 1990 to
1993. She started the Barómetro CERC, a public opinion barometer that has monitored
the Chilean transition since 1987. In 1994 she founded her own market and society
opinion research company in partnership with MORI in the UK. Since its inception
in 1995, Marta Lagos has been the Executive Director of LatinoBarometro, which
surveys annually public opinion in 18 Latin American countries.
Author of many publications in the field of public opinion research, she is a member of
the World Values Survey team and part of the committee that organizes the
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Additionally, Mrs. Lagos, has been
consultant on survey issues and the electoral process in transition in 23 countries and
in international organizations including IDB, UNDP, World Bank, UN and the EU.
Marta Lagos Cruz Coke holds a M.A. in Economics from Heidelberg University,
Germany.
PROFESSOR CHRISTINA MURRAY
Head of Department, Public Law and Director of the Law, Race & Gender
Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Christina Murray is Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at the
University of Cape Town. Between 1994 and 1996 she served on a panel of seven
experts advising the South African Constitutional Assembly in drafting South Africa’s
‘final’ Constitution. Since then she has advised a number of government departments
in South Africa on the implementation of the new system of multi-level government
and worked with South Africa’s national Parliament and many of its nine provincial
legislatures. Her most recent constitutional work outside South Africa has been in
Sourthern Sudan, Indonesia and Kenya. She has taught and written on the law of
contract, human rights law (and particularly issues relating to gender equality and
African customary law), international law, and constitutional law.
MR. CYRIL NDBELE
Former Speaker of the Zimbabwean National Assembly
Cyril Ndebele was a member of the political movement which fought for Zimbabwe’s
independence, and was part of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) PF’s
legal team during independence negotiations. He has held senior positions in the
ZANU PF, including membership of its Politburo. He was a Member of Parliament
from 1990 to 2000, where he chaired several important committees (privileges, legal,
standing rules and orders). He was elected Speaker from 1995 to 2000. As Speaker,
Cyril Ndebele was instrumental in introducing parliamentary reforms designed to
transform parliament into a more efficient, transparent and participatory democratic
institution.
Cyril Ndebele was a founder member of the SADC Parliamentary Forum and has
been a resource person at several international meetings on the workings of parliamentary
democracy.
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