Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

Kerry Willams

Non-executive Director

Kerry Williams is an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar and is a member of the Pan African Bar Association of South Africa.  She previously practiced as an attorney for over a decade.  She was a founding trustee and board member of the Equal Education Law Centre.  She also served as a board member of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project during its same-sex marriage campaign.  She has a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Governance at Harvard University and a Masters in Public Law from the University of London.  She graduated from the University of Cape Town with an LLB.

“The time to act was 20 years ago.  Now we must all change rapidly – without using law as a tool for social and environmental justice, on behalf of the people CER serves, rapid change in South Africa is unlikely to be on the governance agenda.”