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Board Members
Board Members
Scott Allen is a private investor. For 22 years, Mr Allen was engaged in international capital markets working in New York, Tokyo and London. He left JP Morgan Chase's securities group in London at the end of 2004 as a managing director in charge of structured credit sales in Europe and the Middle East. Mr Allen is a graduate of Georgetown University's Master of Science in Foreign Service and obtained his undergraduate degree from Sophia University, Tokyo. He is married with two daughters. (Private sector and fundraising)
Teresa Crawford has been with The Advocacy Project since it was founded. She worked on the first AP team, which reported from the 1998 Rome conference to establish an International Criminal Court, and served as the first AP Technical Director. She worked extensively with the Roma in Europe, and was one of the founders of
IPKO, the first post-war ISP in Kosovo. Teresa is a leader in the Global eRider movement which is spreading the model of non profit technology assistance. She is currently working at the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), where she supports the civil society program. She has traveled widely and conducted trainings for NGOs in South Africa, Ukraine, and the Balkans.
(ICT and training)
Her Excellency Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein. Claudia is the resident Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United States in Washington, D.C. She has occupied this position since October 2002. Between 1970 and 1974, Claudia was the personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, Dr. Alfred Hilbe. In 1978, she became a Diplomatic Officer in the Office of Foreign Affairs. During the 1980s, she served consecutively as the Second Deputy of the Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, then as First Secretary and intermittent Chargé d’Affairs in Switzerland, and later as First Secretary of the Embassy of Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria. In 1990, Claudia was selected by His Serene Highness Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein as Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, an appointment she held until her transfer to Washington in 2002.
(Diplomatic)
Devin Greenleaf is an editor with Al Jazeera, based in the Gulf. He served as an AP Peace Fellow in Nepal with the Jagaran Media Center in 2007, where he helped to develop the JMC’s national network of Dalit reporters. Devin became a long-time enthusiast for combining media arts and social justice while working with documentary filmmakers and in his hometown of Salt Lake City. He holds a Masters degree in international politics from American University, focused on global human security and international communication.
(AP Peace Fellows)
Iain Guest is the Executive Director of The Advocacy Project. Iain has an extensive background in information and working with civil society in countries in conflict. He was a Geneva-based correspondent for the London-based
Guardian and
International Herald Tribune (1976-1987); authored a book on the disappearances in Argentina; fronted several BBC documentaries; served as spokesperson for the UNHCR operation in Cambodia (1992) and the UN humanitarian operation in Haiti (2004); served as a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace (1996-7); and conducted missions to Rwanda and Bosnia for the UN, USAID and UNHCR. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches human rights.
(Media and information)
Soren Jessen-Petersen is currently the Director of the Washington office of the Independent Diplomat, a lecturer at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Mr. Jessen-Petersen has had a long and distinguished career in the United Nations. A lawyer and journalist by training, he began his service in 1972 with the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Africa. He then held senior positions at UNHCR before opening the UNHCR regional office in Stockholm in 1986. In 1989, he served as Special Adviser to the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and as a member of the Secretary-General’s Task Force on Namibian independence. Between 1990 and 1993, Mr. Jessen-Petersen served as Chef de Cabinet of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva while also serving as Director of External Relations (1992-1994). Between August 1994 and January 1998 he was Director of the UNHCR Liaison Office at the UN Headquarters in New York, while serving as the High Commissioner’s Special Envoy to the former Yugoslavia, based in Sarajevo (December 1995 and September 1996). Mr. Jessen-Petersen served as Assistant UN High Commissioner for Refugees (January 1998 to December 2001). He then served as the Chairman of the European Union Stability Pact’s Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI), where he initiated and directed a strategy to manage population movements in the Western Balkans. Mr. Jessen-Petersen also chaired the MARRI Steering Committee. His most recent UN assignment was that of Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo and head of UNMIK (August 2004 to July 2006) at the level of UN Under Secretary-General.
(UN and Balkans)
Dr Susan Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration at Georgetown University and director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr Martin is also Director of the Certificate Program on Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. Previously Dr Martin served as the Executive Director of the US Commission on Immigration Reform, established by legislation to advise Congress and the President on US immigration and refugee policy. Her publications include the World Migration Report: 2000 (ed.), Refugee Women, The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration, Beyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America (ed.), and numerous monographs and articles on immigration and refugee policy. She is also the principal author of the 2004 World Survey on Women and Development: Women and Migration, produced for the United Nations. She earned her MA and PhD in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in history from Douglass College, Rutgers University.
(Academic and women’s rights)
Bayo Oyewole has been with the World Bank Group since 1984. He served for several years as adviser, then senior adviser, in the office of the Executive Director where he represented the interests of 21 African countries on the World Bank’s executive board. He joined the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private sector arm, in 2001, where he has managed IFC’s relationship with the international donor community and foundations. Bayo currently works in IFC’s Infrastructure Advisory Department where he advises African governments on how to structure effective public-private partnerships in the health sector. Before joining the World Bank Group, Bayo worked in the Nigerian affiliate of Deloitte and Touche in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park. Bayo is married with two boys.
(Africa)
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