She is also a member of the Canadian Bankers Association, Lincoln's Inn, and the legal aid committee in Gaibandha. Manzoor Hasan is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Peace and Justice of BRAC University.
Motahar Akand
Nilufa Sultana Sheta has worked in the development sector since 1996, focusing on gender, human rights, governance, access to services and capacity building. She received her MA in Political Science from National University and LLB from Dhaka University.
Nilufa Sultana (Sheta)
At GIZ, she led a project titled 'Gender Responsive Community Based Policing Project (GRCBP)' and worked as a capacity building manager for the Rule of Law project.
Centre for Peace and Justice,
Sara Hossain
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
In June 2006 he joined the London College of Legal Studies (South) as Head of Student Services and Faculty Member. In 2008, he became one of the partners and course coordinator of London College of Legal Studies (South), the only affiliated center of international programs of the University of London in Bangladesh.
Shahariar Sadat
Ms. Sheepa Hafiza is the executive director of Ain O Salish Kendra, a legal aid and rights organization. Most recently, she was director of two BRAC programs, namely Gender Justice and Diversity, and Migration Rights.
Sheepa Hafiza
Hafiza is a seasoned leader widely recognized for her expertise in areas including policy advocacy, gender justice advocacy, youth and youth networking and advocacy with a particular focus on ending child marriage, migrant worker rights, she has proven expertise on sustainable people centered program development, organizational change management and capacity building.
Ain O Salish Kendra Bangladesh
Zakir Hossain
Nagorik Uddyog (Citizen’s Initiative)
Zia Uddin
Hossein Raeesi
Carleton University Canada
Bin XU
Common Language China
Faustina Pereira
International Development Law
He was involved in policy design and public relations, both at the level of field missions (Sarajevo) and at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw. He has held positions at the European Union Monitoring Mission (Deputy Head, Political and Information Division, Bosnia and Herzegovina); the United Nations Administration Mission in Kosovo (Acting Temporary Media Commissioner), and with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Political Directorate, Desk Officer for EU Accession Countries).
Bernhard Knoll -Tudor
Before being appointed CEU, Bernhard worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an international organization dedicated to "hard" security and human rights diplomacy. Bernhard holds an MA in Law from the University of Vienna and an MA in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins/SAIS with a focus on IR theory (Bologna and Washington, D.C.).
Central European University
Bernhard directs the Global Policy Academy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, which offers short courses and executive programs in various public policy sectors for civil servants and cabinet members, representatives of international and non-profit organizations, such as and journalists and lawyers. He received his doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and is the author of The Legal Status of Subject Territories.
Zaza Namoradze
Open Society Justice Initiative
Hungary
Gagan Sethi
Centre for Social Justice India
Maja Daruwala
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Rao holds a Master of Laws degree from Kakatiya University, Warangal, Master of Philosophy in Law from the National Law School, Bangalore and Ph.D. Rao has been actively involved with legal education and research in India at four National Law Schools: National Law School of India University, Bangalore, NALSAR, Hyderabad, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhi Nagar and National Law University, Delhi by including a brief stint with Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University.
Prof. (Dr.)
He was a member of the UGC Expert Committee on Law to transform legal education in India. He was a visiting fellow at the School of Oriental & African Studies, SOAS, London and the University of Washington in Seattle.
Srikrishna Deva Rao
He has engaged in several research projects with UKERI, UNDP, Law Commission of India and Ministry of Law and Justice etc. He was a consultant for Indian Medical Association (IMA), Swedish Development Cooperation (SDC), Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) ) , Child Rights and You (CRY) and the Swedish National Science Foundation (SNSF).
National Law University Odisha
India
Erna Witoelar
Filantropi Indonesia Indonesia
Febi Yonesta
Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation
Indonesia
Fira has also worked at the United Nations Development Fund for Women as the National Coordinator for the Implementation of CEDAW in Indonesia. She has also served with the Pulih Foundation and the National AIDS Commission as a Gender and Human Rights Officer.
Syafira Hardani
Fira also worked at the United Nations Development Fund for Women as the National Coordinator for the Implementation of CEDAW in.
Tifa Foundation Indonesia
Angote is currently a Council Member of the Council for Legal Education, has been a councilor of the Law Society of Kenya and is an LLM finalist student at the University of Nairobi. She is a trained teacher of trial advocacy from the University of Washington and is a part-time lecturer at the Kenya School of Law.
Gertrude Nyausi Angote
Gertrude Nyausi Angote is a lawyer of the High Court, 11 years in good standing; currently CEO of Kituo Cha Sheria (Legal Advice Centre), the oldest legal aid providing NGO in Kenya. She is an advocate of social transformation who believes in upholding human dignity and has been at the forefront of litigating, agitating and championing the vision of access to justice for all.
Kituo Cha Sheria (Legal Advice Center)
He developed paralegal training courses and conducted paralegal training in Malawi and also helped introduce paralegal services to other countries. Msiska is the National Director of the Paralegal Advisory Service Institute (PASI) - a local non-governmental organization - which employs sixty-two paralegal officers who work in police stations, prisons, courts and communities to help the poorest of the poor have access to justice.
Clifford Msiska
Msiska worked as a legal officer for a local human rights organization in Malawi for over five years before joining Penal Reform International (PRI) from 2000 to 2006 as a regional coordinator responsible for paralegal services in East and Southern Africa. As a legal expert, he develops courses for legal aid and trains assistants and village mediators who work for the Legal Aid Institute and any other government department.
Paralegal Advisory Service Institute
Before she was the Executive Director of the Malaysian Center for Constitutionalism and Human Rights (MCCHR) from 2011 to 2014, Ms. Lim Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Committee of the Malaysian Bar Council.
Ka Ea Lim
Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and
Badmaa Purevdorj has been working as a Program Manager at the Open Society Forum in Mongolia since 2008 overseeing the reform programs for human rights, justice sector and currently serves as a Legal Empowerment Shared Framework lead in Mongolia. Purovdorji is a graduate of a School of Law at the National University of Mongolia and holds an LLM in Intercultural Human Rights from the School of Law at the St.
Badamragchaa Purevdorj
Open Society Forum Mongolia
Urantsooj Gombosuren graduated from Odessa State University, majoring in microbiology, a Ph.D from the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Kiev;. She is a founding member of an NGO called Center for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), and has spent 20 years in advocacy work for the protection and promotion of human rights of pastoralists.
Urantsooj Gombosuren
She worked as a researcher and head of the Microbial Synthesis Laboratory of the Institute of Biotechnology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and as Deputy Director in charge of Research &.
Centre for Human
Braveheart is also engaging with active players to develop a proper mechanism to protect ethnic rights across the country by organizing ethnic ministers, legislative and administrative bodies. It is also empowering more communities to defend justice and the rule of law in Myanmar.
Yadana Than Htaik
Brave Heart also facilitates the Myanmar National Paralegal Network, a group of over 300 members of community advocates across the country.
BRAVEHEART Foundation
She has served as a trainer and mentor, helping to build the capacities of communities, women law students and other concerned stakeholders. As a litigator, she represented her clients in court and filed several public interest lawsuits in the Supreme Court of Nepal to protect and advance the rights of women and marginalized groups.
Anita Neupane Thapalia
Legal Aid and Consultancy Centre
He is a passionate social activist and has more than 12 years of experience in human rights monitoring, social and political inclusion, gender, program development, capacity building and policy advocacy. He has researched various socio-economic issues in Nepal and has worked on projects funded by ICCO Netherlands, USAID and the European Union.
Prabhakar Bagchand
Lawyers' National Campaign for
Sabin Shrestha is a lawyer and CEO of the Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD). Shrestha also works to promote and protect economic and social rights in Nepal.
Sabin Shrestha
Shrestha has equally played an important role in analyzing disaster relief laws from a human rights perspective and advocating for right-wing based responses to disaster-affected people. Shrestha is also currently engaged in monitoring gender and social inclusion of earthquake response and reconstruction.
Som Niroula
Alliance for Social Dialogue
Nepal
Arshid Jan
UNDP Pakistan
Kamran Arif
Open Society Foundation
Mayo-Anda is an environmental lawyer with over 25 years of field-based practice in legal empowerment, environmental advocacy and community-based resource management work in the Philippines. She is the author and co-author of various articles and publications on environmental policy and governance, community-based resource management, mining, energy, forestry and the risks of corruption.
Grizelda
Mayo-Anda has nearly two decades of programmatic and management experience in various areas of non-profit work, including policy development and advocacy for conservation and natural resource management, community development and human rights, environmental non-profit fundraising, project cycle management, monitoring and evaluation, partnership building with local governments and the private sector on concerns such as climate change, coastal resource management, clean air management and legislation, protected area establishment and management, and community organizing work for natural resource management. She is a speaker/resource person at seminars/trainings organized by the Philippine Judicial Academy (Philja), International Union for the Conservation of Nature Academy of Environmental Law (IUCN-AEL), Alternative Law Groups (ALG) and government agencies on environmental laws, enforcement and prosecution of environmental cases, legal training and environmental management.
Gerthie”
Mayo Anda
Environmental Legal Assistance Center
He holds a degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and is currently a key expert on judicial administration and financial management in the British Council's Justice Sector Reform: Governance in Justice (GOJUST) program in the Philippines. He is very active in the NGO legal services sector, works closely with agrarian reform legislation and environmental law, and facilitated the formation of the Alternative Law Group (ALG), a network of community-based legal services organizations in the Philippines.
Hector D. Soliman
He completed his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines and is a member of the Philippine Bar. He worked as a senior government official (Deputy Secretary and Undersecretary) and managed the legal affairs of the Department of Agrarian Reform for six years.
GOJUST Philippines
Manuel is the coordinator of the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), a coalition of twenty (20) non-governmental organizations in the Philippines that espouse the principles and values of alternative or social development law practices. He received his Bachelor of Science in Management from Ateneo de Manila University, College of Arts and Sciences, and is an active member of the Philippine Bar.
Marlon J. Manuel
He also served as grassroots vice chairman of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), a government commission established under the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act. He is a professor of law at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1994.
Alternative Law Groups
-a legal resource non-governmental organization dealing with disadvantaged communities), where he spent more than a decade of his work as a lawyer. Manuel has served as project director for a number of justice reform programs and as a member and chair of various non-governmental organizations, networks and coalitions in the Philippines.
Philippines
Langa Mtshali
National Alliance for the Development of
Community Advice Offices
South Africa
He is an advocate of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Sri Lanka. He is an independent consultant and has also published in the areas of Legal Empowerment, Governance, Land Rights, Politics, Human Rights, Language Rights, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Conflict Resolution.
Thirunavukarasu Marimuthu
Thirunavukarasu Marimuthu (Thiru), holds a Masters Degree in Development Studies, a Post Graduate Diploma in Labor Studies and a Special Degree in Law (LL.B) from the University of Colombo. He has more than 15 years of experience in national and international organizations (state/non-state/diplomatic) in the fields of legal empowerment, law and justice, judicial reform, development, governance, democracy and electoral process, human rights, gender issues, public order, political science, public administration, reconciliation, language rights, right to information, alternative dispute resolution and devolution.
The Asia Foundation Sri Lanka
A lawyer by profession, Mariam is currently a legal advisor and program officer at Women In Need, a civil society organization working to end violence against women and girls in Sri Lanka. Mariam, who holds an LL.B (Hons) Degree from the University of London, graduated as an Attorney at Law and worked as a junior lawyer in the chambers of a leading President's lawyer, where she gained exposure to the civil justice system.
Mariam Wadood
Women In Need Sri Lanka
He previously served as the Foundation's country representative in Thailand managing programs that promoted peaceful conflict resolution, criminal justice reform, more responsive systems of governance, economic development and Thailand's emerging role as a non-traditional Asian donor. Prior to that, Kim served as the Foundation's Bangkok-based director of law and justice programs (2009-10) and country representative in Bangladesh (2003-09).
Michael Kim McQuay
As Director General of the Foundation's Asia Program Specialist Group, Kim McQuay leads a team of 18 technical experts in governance and law, women's empowerment, economic growth, environment, conflict mitigation and technology for development, providing expert advice and technical assistance to the Foundation's country. offices in planning and implementing programs, fundraising and forming strategic partnerships.
The Asia Foundation Thailand
Pornpen
Khongkachonkiet
Cross Cultural Foundation
Hien Bui
Sumaiya Islam
The Global Legal Empowerment Network works to achieve this vision by connecting, strengthening and expanding the number of community paralegals around the world. Coar in the Northern District of Illinois, served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of State and worked in the New York office of White & Case, LLP.
Abigail Moy
Prior to joining Namati, Abigail worked with access to justice programs in Africa, Latin America and South Asia, working with the World Bank, The Asia Foundation, Fundacion Soros-Guatemala and Timap for Justice. Moy received a Fulbright Fellowship, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, and holds a master's degree in law and development from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Global Legal Empowerment
Ashley Toombs works hand-in-hand with BRAC management, the board and strategic partners in resource mobilization, marketing and outreach, and manages a portfolio of grants for global programs in the areas of human rights, legal empowerment, property rights and climate change. Prior to BRAC, Ashley worked in the New York City office of The Nature Conservancy, coordinating with program directors, scientists and fundraisers to support global projects.
Ashley Marie Toombs
Ashley travels domestically and internationally to provide technical assistance, represent the organization at events and international conferences, and supports a myriad of stakeholder relationships for programs in Asia and Africa. She spent more than four years in Peru as a Peace Corps Environmental Stewardship Volunteer and Technical Liaison for Youth Development and Environmental Programs in collaboration with the Peruvian Ministries of Environment and Education.
BRAC USA USA
Farnoosh Hashemian is an Iranian-American attorney who has spent more than a decade working in multiple countries with international organizations on conflict and human rights, constitutional reform, access to justice and women's rights. The Trial and Diary of Abbass Amir Entezam, the Longest Held Prisoner of Conscience in the Middle East”.
Farnoosh Hashemian
In addition to the Iran portfolio, Farnoosh is the focal point in New York for providing support to OSF partners in Afghanistan who are working forward. In addition to her J.D. from UCLA Law School, Farnoosh completed her Masters in Public Health at Yale University, where her dissertation on the impact of chemical weapons on the mental health of Iranian Kurdish civilians won the 2005 Yale Dean's Award.
Open Society Foundations
Manzoor Hasan, Managing Director Email: mhasan56@gmail.com Shahariar Sadat, Academic Coordinator Email: shahariar.sadat@bracu.ac.bd Nilufa Sultana, Program Coordinator Email: nilufa.sheta@bracu.ac.bd Zia Uddin, research assistant E-mail : zia.uddin@bracu.ac.bd.
