Professor Tim McCormack is an expert on international criminal law and Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.   In this in conversation Tim will be joined by Sue Robertson, international legal advisor to the Australian Government and current head of the APS Integrity Taskforce to discuss his career with the International Criminal Court, looking at challenges of complex prosecutions such as that of Vladimir Putin.

Tim McCormack is a Professor of International Law at the University of Tasmania and the Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Tim was a member of the Australian Government Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference in 1998 for the negotiation of the Rome Statute and has closely followed the progress of the Court since. He was first appointed to his current role by Luis Moreno Ocampo in 2010, reappointed by Fatou Bensouda in 2012 and reappointed by Karim Khan KC in June 2021. Tim has just returned to Australia from 2 months at the ICC in The Hague.

Sue Robertson is currently the Head of the APS Integrity Taskforce in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She is an international law specialist and a certified organisational coach. Previously, Sue served as the First Assistant Secretary, International Division in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. She has worked as diplomat for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Sue has also held legal policy roles with the United Nations including in Egypt (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), Bhutan (UN Development Programme) and Sudan (UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations). Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Laws (International Law) (Dean’s Prize) from the Australian National University.