Atty. Jewel O. Dela Cruz, LL.M.

Jewel Dela Cruz is a children’s rights lawyer admitted to the Bar in the Philippines. She holds a Master of Laws in Forensics, Criminology, and Law, cum laude, from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where she she was full scholarship awardee of the Dutch government. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree, class salutatorian and her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, cum laude. She has successfully prosecuted online sexual abuse and exploitation and human trafficking cases before Philippine courts and successfully obtained restitution awards before U.S. and Australian courts. She is currently the Country Program Manager for International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Most recently, she was in The Hague, The Netherlands for a professional placement in an international court under a European Commission grant. She serves as a lecturer in Tarlac State University-School of Law and Saint Louis University- Graduate School of Law. She conducts talks, training, and lectures on children's rights, women's rights, artificial intelligence, and digital forensics to lawyers, government leaders, advocates, educators, and students, a task she enjoys the most.