Maaike de Langen works for people-centered justice, hopeful multilateralism and everything ombuds. She co-drafted the Justice for All report, directed the Pathfinders for Justice Program, and now leads the Justice Action Coalition Task Team. She is Senior Fellow at NYU-CIC and worked for the Dutch National Ombudsman, UNDP and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2006-2009 she co-drafted the report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, which developed the concept of legal empowerment and pushed it onto the world stage. In parallel she created and led UNDP’s first global program on Legal Empowerment with projects in nine countries.