Janet is a dedicated and highly organized legal professional, development practitioner and design thinking coach with 15 years’ experience working in litigation, development programming, legal advisory, legal and policy research and analysis and design thinking facilitation. She is known for her exceptional skills in legislative review, contract reviews, prosecution, legal writing and presentation and leading the development, engagement and implementation of programs focusing on human rights, justice and rule of law, democratic and social accountability, anti-corruption, policing and child protection.

She possesses skills in monitoring and evaluation, conducting organizational legal risk analysis and management, conducting human rights due diligence checks, conducting security and justice assessments, human rights situation analysis, statutory audits and legal compliance checks.

Janet has also consulted on assignments requiring legal review and analysis, legal drafting, engagement and negotiations and extensive report writing. She has the capacity to and has managed and lead on complex and time sensitive assignments while balancing multiple interests.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Degree from the University of Malawi and a Master of Laws in International Development, Law and Human Rights from the University of Warwick She is admitted to practice law in Malawi and confidently litigates in the Supreme Court, High Court and Subordinate courts in the following areas of law among others, criminal law, commercial law, employment law, procurement law, family law and constitutional and administrative law.