Margaret Ajok currently serves as Transitional Justice Advisor at Uganda’s Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. In this role, she is helping to identify the balance between justice, accountability, and reconciliation in formal and non-formal justice systems. Margaret led the development of the National Transitional Justice Policy of Uganda – a policy that reiterates the need for peace, stability and reconciliation as necessary factors for national development.

A lawyer by training, Margaret also founded an all-women non-governmental organization, the Center for Reparation and Rehabilitation, which provided legal aid and psychosocial support services. Passionate about alternative dispute resolution and community justice, she started her legal career in Northern Uganda, a region that was plagued by armed conflict for over two decades.

Margaret is a member of the Uganda Law Society, serves as the Secretary of the African Women for Transitional Justice Platform, and is an Expert on the Continental Reference Group on Transitional Justice in Africa of the African Union. She obtained a Master of Laws from Columbia University in the City of New York, a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in legal practice, Uganda. She was a Human Rights Fellow, an awardee of the Parker Certificate of Achievement in International and Comparative Law, and a Public Interest Honoree at Columbia Law School.