Mr. James HEENAN (Australia) has been the Representative of the OHCHR Office in Seoul since October 2022. Prior to joining the office in Seoul, he was based in Ramallah as Head of the OHCHR Country Office in the occupied Palestinian territory. He has worked in human rights for 25 years, including in roles leading support to the human rights treaty bodies in Geneva, as OHCHR Country Representative in Cambodia, and research roles on the judiciary, development, HIV and detention. Prior to joining the UN, he worked in academia and as a lawyer in commercial and criminal practice in the United Kingdom and Australia.