Bio of Mr. Ayeda Robert Kotchani – Ag. OHCHR Regional Representative ai for West Africa

Mr. Ayeda Robert Kotchani has been working with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for the past sixteen years. In 1999, he started his international career as Legal Officer with the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, The Gambia, where he worked for eight years. From 2006 to 2009, he worked for OHCHR in Uganda, and he has subsequently worked in several country and regional offices of OHCHR, as Deputy Representative in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia and Yaoundé, Cameroon, as well as in Bujumbura, Burundi, where in 2014/15, he led as Acting Representative of the High Commissioner the transition from the United Nations for Burundi (BNUB) to the OHCHR Country Office in Burundi.
He also worked with the United Nations Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) in Libreville, Gabon.
Mr. Kotchani’s most recent position was Representative of the High Commissioner in Uganda and Head of the OHCHR Uganda Country Office.

Mr. Kotchani holds an LLM in International Law and an LLB in English, both obtained from the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin