President | Financial Action Task Force
South Africa | 2005 - 2011

Board Chairman | UCB Committee on Cricket Franchise
South Africa | 2005 - 2011

President | Unesco Inter-Government Committee of Experts on Cultural Diversity
Paris | 2004 - 2011

Chairman | National Assembly | Portfolio Committee on Defence
South Africa | 2004 - 2011

Member of Parliament | National Assembly | African National Congress
South Africa | 1994 - 2011

Chairman | ANC National Disciplinary Committee
South Africa | 1994 - 2011

Chairman | Joint Parliamentary Committee of Ethics and Members' Interests
South Africa | 1994 - 2011

Member | National Executive Committee | African National Congress
South Africa | 1991 - 2011

Member (Board of Control) | Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) | University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa

Vice-President | Africa Foundation for International Law
South Africa

Member | ANC National Commission for the Emancipation of Women
South Africa

Vice-Chairman | Independent World Commission on Oceans
South Africa

Minister | Education
South Africa | 1999 - 2004

Chairman | National Conventional Arms Control Committee
1995 - 2004

Chairman | World Commission on Dams
1997 - 2001

Minister | Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Government of South Africa
South Africa | 1994 - 1999

Vice-Chairman | World Commission on Oceans
1995 - 1998

Member | Council of Union
1992 - 1995

Professor | Human Rights Law, University of the Western Cape
South Africa | 1991 - 1994

Delegate | Working Group 1: Convention for a Democratic South Africa
1992 - 1993

Delegate | Working Group 1: Convention for a Democratic South Africa
1992 - 1993

Founder and Chairman | Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
1972 - 1990

Lecturer | Law | Trinity College
Dublin | 1963 - 1990

Dean | Faculty of Arts | Trinity College
1980 - 1986

Reporter | United Nations and non-government Conferences on SA
1974 - 1974

Chairman | Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
1963 - 1972

University of Cape Town

Awarded in 1999

Honorary Doctor of Philosophy

London School of Economics and Political Science

Awarded in 1999

Honorary Fellow

Rhodes University

Awarded in 1997

Honorary Doctor of Laws

University of Queen's, Belfast

Awarded in 1996

Honorary Doctor of Laws

Completed 1994

Advocate of Supreme Court

Completed 1975

Barrister, King's Inn (Dublin)

University College, Dublin

Completed 1966

Master of Arts

London School of Economics and Political Science

Completed 1964

Master of Laws

Completed 1963

Barrister, Lincoln's Inn (London)

London School of Economics and Political Science

Completed 1962

Bachelor of Law

College of Springfield of Education

Completed 1954

Diploma in Teaching

Durban

University of Dublin

Honorary Doctor of Laws

The Order of Luthuli in Silver | The Presidency | 2009

For his immense contribution to the liberation struggle, the South African education system and the environment.

Lifetime Platinum Award | Old Mutual

Honorary LLD | University of the Western Cape

Honorary DTech | Central University of Technology

Honorary LLD | University of Ireland

Honorary Fellow | College of Med SA

Stockholm Water Prize | Swedish Water Academy

Honorary DPhil | University of Cape Town

Honorary Fellow | University of London

Leadership Excellence Award | Black Management Forum (BFM)

Flora Conservation Award | Botanical Society of SA

Honorary LLD | University of Dublin

Honorary Member | Water Institute of Southern Africa

AGFA Award for Conservation and the Environ Medalla Rectoral | University of Chile

Honorary LLD | Queen's University

Best Conservation Project (Working for Water Programme) | WWF/Green Trust

Gold Medal - SA for Conservation | WWF for Nature

Prix: The Advancement of Human Rights | UNESCO

Co-Author | From Cane Fields to Freedom | 2000

Author | Educating for a Sustainable Future: Commitments and Partnerships (Education on the Move) | 2004

Author | Spirit of the Nation

Co-Author | Reconciliation Through Truth | 1996

Co-Author | Shoot to kill? | 1985

African Association on International Law

Vice-President

National Institute of Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders (Nicro)

President

Street Law Project

Trustee