Global Echo’s International Advisory Council is composed of ad-hoc, external experts in Palestinian human rights, international law, and corporate accountability. Council members offer independent strategic guidance and subject-matter insight to strengthen our investigations, litigation, and advocacy addressing corporate complicity in Israel’s occupation and apartheid. Members of the Council do not hold any decision-making authority and are not part of Global Echo’s formal governance, management, staff, or legal structure.

May 14, 2026

Omar Shehabi

US- and UK-qualified lawyer and academic specializing in public international law; former legal officer with the United Nations in New York and the Middle East
May 14, 2026

Omar Shakir

Executive Director at DAWN; former Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch
May 14, 2026

Michael Lynk

Canadian lawyer, legal academic, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2016-2022)