ARTICLE 19 - Key Persons
Adama Barrow, who was elected President of the Gambia on 1 December 2016, ending over two decades of autocratic rule under former military leader Yahya Jammeh. (Photo: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0)
Job Titles:
- in 2022 As International Press Officer
Aga Maciejewska joined ARTICLE 19 in 2022 as International Press Officer. In her role, she is responsible for raising organisation's profile in international media, building relationships with journalists and seeking reactive and proactive opportunities to tell the story of ARTICLE 19's work.
Aparna Ravi is a corporate and finance lawyer with nearly two decades of experience, having practiced law in New York, London and India. She is currently based in New Delhi, where she is a Partner at Samvad Partners Advocates, a pan-Indian, full-service law firm. In addition to representing clients in financing, mergers and acquisitions, and investment transactions, Aparna regularly advices a number of corporate clients on corporate governance issues as well on compliance and advisory matters, including implementing policies to make working places safer.
Aparna has also worked with a legal not-for-profit organization in Bangalore, India where she was involved in research and litigation on women's rights and the right to education, and has been a visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Aparna was a member of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee constituted by the Indian Government that prepared the initial draft of the new legislation and continues to research and write widely on insolvency law reform in India.
Aparna also has a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from New York University School of Law (2003) and a Bachelor degree in Government from Harvard University (2000). She is qualified to practice law in India and in New York.
Barbara joined ARTICLE 19 in 2018, and is responsible for leading the strategic development, management, design, coordination, and delivery of ARTICLE 19 global campaigns. In addition, she provides support and guidance to regional offices to ensure effective external mobilisation in line with ARTICLE 19 Expression Agenda.
X Barbara Trionfi has dedicated her professional career to the defence of press and media freedom and the promotion of independent, public interest journalism. As the former Executive Director at the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), she led an international team of over 20 staff and greatly expanded IPI activities, both geographically and thematically, to address the increasingly complex challenges and threats to independent journalism around the world. With an academic background in international relations and a specialisation in international human rights law and mechanisms, Barbara has taught courses at Webster University, Vienna in Media Ethics, Media Literacy and Cultural Diversity and the Media. She has written and contributed to numerous publications, including "Growing Media Repression and Self-Restraint in China" (1998; updated in 1999); "The Kosovo News and Propaganda War" (1999); "IPI World Press Freedom Review" (2000-2007), and published numerous articles on subjects related to press freedom, media accountability and public support for journalism. Barbara is currently conducting research on climate journalism in cooperation with the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. She serves as a Board member of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO) and as a member of the jury for the Concordia Journalism and Press Freedom Awards, as well as of the Fetisov Journalism Awards. Barbara was awarded a Decoration of Merit in Gold by the Republic of Austria in 2022 for her efforts in defence of freedom of expression and safety of journalists. She is also the 2022 winner of the International Cultural Diversity Organization (ICDO) Excellence Award for her engagement in promoting diversity and inclusion.
Robert P. "Bob" Latham has had a distinguished career spanning three decades, as a trial lawyer with recognized expertise in the areas of media law and intellectual property litigation. He is currently a Partner and Chair of Jackson Walker L.L.P.'s media law practice group, and his trial practice also involves complex commercial disputes, international, and class actions. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Virginia Law School.
In addition to his practice at Jackson Walker, Bob serves on the International Board of ARTICLE 19 and the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law. He is also a former president of the Defense Counsel Section of the Media Law Resource Center.
Bob has served on the Executive Committee of World Rugby for seven years, and chairs the World Rugby Regulations Committee. He is a former Chairman of the Board of USA Rugby as well as a former President of Rugby Americas North. Bob is also a published author and columnist, and a much sought-after speaker nationally and internationally. He has spoken on matters related to the rights of free speech, technology and intellectual property litigation, advocacy and litigation strategy, dispute resolution and sports - from Antwerp to Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro to Glasgow, and Melbourne to Yangzhou.
Bob also sits on the Major Gifts Committee of the International Board.
Job Titles:
- Law and Policy Programme Assistant Law and Policy Team
X Brigitte joined ARTICLE 19 in 2023 as the Law and Policy Programme Assistant. She supports the Law and Policy team on legal work, research, and financial and project administration. Before joining ARTICLE 19, Brigitte interned at PEN America, supporting the Free Expression at Risk team with the research and publication of their inaugural Freedom to Write Index; and Index on Censorship, where she worked with the advocacy and events teams. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Wellesley College.
Job Titles:
- Legal Officer Law and Policy Team
Chantal joined ARTICLE 19 in 2022. Her work focuses on platforms regulation (content aspects) and freedom of expression issues relating to national security and privacy. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, Chantal was an Associate at public international law firm Volterra Fietta, where she represented States and private entities before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, and advised on a wide range of public international law matters, including international trade law, international criminal law, international human rights law, State immunity and the protection of foreign investments.
Charles Onyango-Obbo is a Ugandan journalist and writer with over 30 years of experience, who lives and works in Nairobi.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director
- Senior Director of Programmes Programmes
David Kaye teaches law at the University of California, Irvine. From 2014 - 2020 he served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. He is also the author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (2019). Since October 2020 he has been serving as the Independent Chair of the Board of the Global Network Initiative. He has also written for international and American law journals and numerous media outlets. David began his legal career with the U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a former member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.
David Viney is a digital technologist with more than 20 years' leadership experience across the public, private and third sectors, including six years building a digital consulting business.
He is currently Director of Enterprise Platforms at the British Standards Institute (BSI), having previously undertaken similar roles at Arup and at the BBC; where he delivered business systems across news, television and radio.
David is professionally qualified in both IT and Finance, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Passionate about international development and human rights, he has served on the Finance Committee and main Boards of both SciDev, a global news media NGO, and Privacy International (‘PI').
Whilst David was at PI, the board oversaw a complete overhaul of the vision, strategy and branding of the organisation, to maintain relevance in the post-Snowden era; addressing not only fundamental privacy rights, but also emerging concerns such as data exploitation by large corporates and the protection of democracy from malign actors.
David joined the ARTICLE 19 board in December 2020.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director for Brazil and South America
Denise joined ARTICLE 19 in Oct 2019 as the Regional Director for the Brazil and South America region. Denise is a lawyer and human rights activist with more than 25 years of experience on gender and access to justice. Denise holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from University of Essex/UK, and a MA in History and Politics from Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, with several publications on women's rights, human rights and civil society. A founding member of THEMIS - Gender Justice and Human Rights, a feminist organisation that develops legal empowerment programs for women community leaderships since 1993, she worked for the Ford Foundation as a senior program officer responsible for the Human Rights Program in Brazil from 2000 to 2011 and has served on the Advisory Committee of UN Women in Brazil and Latina America and Caribe regions. Currently, Denise is a board member of Conectas Human Rights and Ibirapitanga Institute.
Job Titles:
- Fundraising and Development Officer Fundraising Team
X Etienne joined ARTICLE 19 early 2020 as the Fundraising and Programme Development Officer at the International office based in London. In this capacity, he is responsible for the financial sustainability of the organisation. He dedicates his time researching funding opportunities, communicating with donors, and supporting teams by coordinating, co-designing, and writing project proposals. Hailing from Washington DC, he previously worked in freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in Freedom House's Emergency Assistance Programme and in programme development at Search for Common Ground. Etienne holds a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a M.Sc. in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he specialised in the study of terrorism, social exclusion, and ethno-religious conflict.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director for Bangladesh and South Asia
Faruq joined ARTICLE 19 at the end of 2018 as the Regional Director for the Bangladesh and South Asia region. He has over two decades experience of working in the field of international development program management and leadership, as well as journalism, media development and development communications in Asia, North America, Europe and Central America. He wrote stories for a variety of international publications including Time magazine, New Internationalist, Gemini News Service, Information-Denmark, Rapport-Sweden and Far Eastern Economic Review. As the Coordinator and International Spokesperson of Nepal International Media Missions for International Media Support, Denmark, he coordinated two International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Missions to Nepal in response to continued violations of press freedom and FoE in Nepal during the time of conflict. He was a member of the Canadian Government's delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2004 as the civil society adviser on UNSCR 1325.
Gayathry Venkiteswaran is a journalist and activist and sits on the Governance committee of the International Board of ARTICLE 19. She is a lecturer at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, where she is also a PhD candidate with the focus of her research on media reforms in Southeast Asia. Prior to this, she was the executive director of the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance, working on press freedom and access to information in the region. Before joining SEAPA, she headed a Malaysian press freedom organisation, the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), worked as a journalist and taught media history and journalism in a number of private colleges and universities. She was curator of the freedom of expression content on Asia and the Pacific for the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) based in Toronto, and is co-editing a book on the media in transition in Burma with two other editors, scheduled for publication in 2019.
Gayathry has authored a research paper for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) on Freedom of assembly and association online in India, Malaysia and Pakistan: Trends, Challenges and Recommendations (2016), and has presented extensively in international fora on issues related to media freedom and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia. She has an MA (International Relations) from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Mass Communication from University Sains Malaysia.
Job Titles:
- in 2019 As Legal Officer
- Legal Officer Law and Policy Team
Ilaria joined ARTICLE 19 in 2019 as legal officer focusing on transparency, the right to information, anti-corruption and sustainable development. She has been a legal researcher for Columbia Global Freedom of Expression covering the case-law of the European regional courts (European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union). Prior to joining Article 19, she gained experience in the field of freedom of expression by working at UNESCO, the Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), the World Association of Newspapers and News publishers (WAN-IFRA) and Oxygen for Information (Ossigeno per l'Informazione).
Job Titles:
- Head of Projects Projects Team
Inger manages the Projects Team in ARTICLE 19 where she leads strategic planning and good project management across the organisation including grant management, compliance, monitoring, learning and reporting. Her team also promotes organisational accountability and transparency. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19 in 2009, Inger was a Program Strategist at George P. Johnson, an international experience marketing company based in London. She previously worked in Honduras for Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad (M.P.D.L.), a Spanish development organisation, and has worked for different United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organisation in Thailand and the United Kingdom. Inger holds an LLB in Law and European Legal Systems from the University of East Anglia and an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Javier Garza Ramos is a journalist based in Torreón (northern Mexico) where he founded and heads EnRe2Laguna, a local news platform on radio and social media. He also co-hosts Expansión Daily, one of the most popular news podcasts in México.
For the past 15 years, he has also worked in journalist protection and press freedom issues. As editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón, he led a newsroom that came under fire from drug cartels operating in his city, and developed safety protocols that are now used by newsrooms in several countries.
He is a contributor in El País and The Washington Post and writes about journalism in Latin America for Harvard University's Nieman Reports.. Garza was also a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists focusing on digital security. Formerly a chair of Article19's Mexico and Central America affiliate, he is also on the board of the World Editors Forum, and has given conferences and workshops on press freedom, media development and journalist safety in several countries.
He has a Bachelor's degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2022 he received a Special Citation of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalism in the Americas given by Columbia University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director for Law and Policy Law and Policy Team
Barbora Bukovská has been ARTICLE 19's Senior Director for Law and Policy since 2009. She leads on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and provides legal oversight and support to legal work across the organization.
Barbora has an extensive experience working with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights. From 2006 to 2008, she was the Legal Director at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, an international organisation working on the rights of people with disabilities in Europe and Central Asia. She graduated from the Law School of Charles University in Prague and has earned a doctorate degree in law in Slovakia and an LLM degree from Harvard Law School. In 1998 and 1999, she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Law School in New York.
Job Titles:
- Head of Gender and Sexuality Gender and Sexuality Team
Judy joined ARTICLE 19 in 2011 and leads the international portfolio on sex, sexuality and gender rights. She developed and spearheads ARTICLE 19's cross-cutting gender strategy, "The Mx Method", ensuring that intersectionality and equity are at the forefront of the organisation's global strategy, operations, and internal processes. She specialises in countering religious intolerance and hate speech, protection of human rights defenders and environmental activists, access to information, and is currently focused on combating technology-related violence against women. She has regional expertise in Southeast Asia and has designed and led large-scale projects in Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, she worked in the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges at the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia and was key in determining victim participation to the proceedings and establishing the evidence base for the crime of forcible population transfer. Judy holds an MSc Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science and Development from the University of California Berkeley.
ARTICLE 19's Founding Director, Kevin Boyle (centre), with (L-R) Kazuo Ishiguro, Harold Pinter, Frances D'Souza, and Arnold Wesker at a news conference to support Salman Rushdie in 1989. (Photo: The Telegraph)
Job Titles:
- Regional Director for Mexico and Central America
Leopoldo joined ARTICLE 19 in 2013, and became the Regional Director for the Mexico and Central America region from 2020. He holds a BA Degree in Law and a Master's Degree in Human Rights from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has worked as attorney in the Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro (Centro Prodh), and as a researcher on human rights and immigration issues at the Universidad Iberomericana.
Lesley Swarbrick was appointed HR director of TI Media, formerly Time Inc. UK, in August 2014. In her nearly four years with the company, she was instrumental in the transformation of the business, leading a range of leadership and communication initiatives - including the work around the company's strategic narrative. Prior to joining Time Inc. UK, Lesley had a long and distinguished career in HR at the BBC spanning two decades. In addition, she ran a successful HR consultancy business, where her clients included the Financial Conduct Authority, Amnesty International and Fox International.
As HR Director BBC Vision, Lesley reported to the Executive Director and was responsible for supporting the Executive Directors of BBC Vision and BBC MC&A in developing, integrating and implementing the People Strategy to achieve the broader business objectives of the organisation.
Lesley is a former journalist with a strong interest in human rights and freedom of expression issues.
Lucia Nader is a political scientist with expertise in the field of democracy, social change, and human rights.
A seasoned consultant and facilitator and the author of several articles on social entrepreneurship, she has been researching and working with activists, NGOs and donors for more than 25 years. She is former Executive Director of the Brazil-based organisation Conectas Human Rights, and led on its Foreign Policy and Human Rights Program, with a focus on south-south relations.
Recently she has focused on strengthening institutional processes, and fostering individual and collective care and protection within organisations. She facilitates team-building, governance and strategic planning, as well as collaborative research initiatives. Her current PhD research at the Institute for Development Studies - University of Sussex focuses on regenerative activism, looking at the benefits of renewal, restoration and revitalisation at individual, organisational and movement levels.
Lucia was a visiting scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice - CHGRJ (New York University) and at the Institute for Latin American Studies - ILAS (Columbia University) in 2017 and 2018. From 2015 and 2016, she was a fellow with the Open Society Foundations Fellowship Program investigating ‘Solid Organizations in a Liquid World'.
She holds a postgraduate degree from Sciences-Po (Paris, France) and a Bachelor's degree in international relations from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Ashoka, an organisation supporting entrepreneurs and organisations that provide solutions to social problems, recognised her work in 2009. Lucia is fluent in Portuguese, French, English and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Head of Law and Policy, With Focus on Digital Markets Law and Policy Team
X Maria Luisa joined ARTICLE 19 in 2018. Based in the London office, she contributes to the development of the organisation's policies on infrastructure, competition, and regulatory framework for telecoms, internet providers and online service providers. She also provides legal support to the organisation's regional offices on digital rights and media policy issues. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, Maria Luisa coordinated various projects at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, where she conducted research, policy and capacity building activities in the telecoms and media sector. Before that, she worked as associate lawyer at Bonelli Erede, an international law firm, where she advised clients on competition rules and represented them in proceedings before competition authorities and courts from various jurisdictions. Maria Luisa holds a law degree (distinction) from the University of Perugia, a Master's degree on international relations from LUMSA University and an LLM on European Legal Studies from the College of Europe. She was admitted at the Italian Bar in 2008.
Job Titles:
- Head of Fundraising and Development Fundraising Team
Marian has 17 years' experience in formulating and managing development projects. She is currently responsible for consolidating and expanding the financial sustainability of ARTICLE 19 by implementing a robust strategy and vision of income-generating activities. She originally joined ARTICLE 19 in 2014 as Fundraising Officer.
Job Titles:
- Director of Sustainable Finance at Cass Business School
Mark is Director of Sustainable Finance at Cass Business School, City, University of London. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and holds their postgraduate diploma in charity accounting. He has been responsible for the business school's work on developing financial sustainability in charities, and has led the social investment and social finance work for the past four years. He also leads the ICAEW accredited MSc module on Advanced, Audit, Accounting and Taxation.
X Marta joined ARTICLE 19 in September 2021, as the International People and Culture Partner, part of the People and Culture team at the International Office. Marta has a Masters of Human Resources from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Liberal Arts from Hunter University. She has worked in a variety of generalist HR roles with a focus on recruitment within the not for profit and international development sector since 2016. Prior to joining ARTICLE19, she worked for one of the world's leading peacebuilding organisations and Freedom from Torture, a human rights organisation providing therapy and support to torture survivors. During the early phase of the COVID crisis in the UK, she worked leading the International Nursing recruitment programme for one of the NHS Trusts in West Yorkshire. Marta also worked in Egypt during the Arab Spring for Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance focusing on advocacy and psychosocial support to refugees and asylum seekers.
Job Titles:
- Head of Digital Digital Team
Mehwish leads ARTICLE 19's Global Team Digital, which works on building human rights considerations in the design, development, standardization, and deployment of internet infrastructure.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director for Kenya and Eastern Africa
Mugambi Kiai joined ARTICLE 19 in January 2020 as the Regional Director for the Kenya and Eastern Africa region. He is a lawyer by training with a very distinguished track record of nearly three decades in the areas of Human Rights, Rule of Law, Justice, Governance and Democracy including Freedom of Expression and Media (Press) Freedom issues and challenges.
He is an LL.M Graduate from Harvard School of Law and has an LL.B from the University of Nairobi, Faculty of Law.
Job Titles:
- Senior Legal Officer Law and Policy Team
Paige is a Senior Legal Officer joining ARTICLE 19 in early 2019, focusing on the media and freedom of expression issues relating to elections. Previously, she led the Brussels office of a public interest law firm, practiced corporate litigation at a leading Canadian law firm, and held various positions relating to human rights and business. She also served on the faculty of the Masters of Law programme at the University of Kent Brussels School of International Studies.
Job Titles:
- Senior Legal Officer Law and Policy Team
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Member of the Global Management Team
Quinn in Executive Director for Article 19. She has a Masters of Business Administration from Georgetown University focusing on global non-profit management and a BA in International Relations and the Environment from Stanford University. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, she worked for the largest non-profit management consultancy in Europe, and was a campaign manager for leading environmental organisations in the United States.
Job Titles:
- Programme Officer Digital Team
Raquel joined ARTICLE 19 in 2020 and is the Digital Programme Officer focusing on spectrum management issues, primarily in and around the ITU's Radiocommunication Sector. She has been working with topics related to human rights and social impact of digital technologies since 2003 in educational and digital rights organisations and since 2010 she is a member of the International Center for Info Ethics (ICIE). Currently based in Berlin, she also worked together with local grassroots communities in Central and South America on projects to tackle digital divide among women and girls in familiar agriculture and indigenous communities.She holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-Sao Paulo, focusing on the intersection between urban studies and the media environment.
Job Titles:
- Office Manager Operations Team
Renato Joined ARTICLE 19 as Office Manager in November 2011. Prior to this, he worked at The Management Centre, a management consultancy working internationally with non-profit organisations, where he coordinated the materials for the management training programmes. He also assisted with the website development; liaised with venues in preparation for events; as well as ensuring the smooth running of the office. At ARTICLE 19 Renato is responsible for the successful day to day running of the International office here in London, he also assists in coordinating travel, events and offers general IT support to the office.
Job Titles:
- ECA Programme Officer & Media Freedom Programme Officer ECA and Media Freedom Teams
Job Titles:
- International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team
X Rumana joined ARTICLE 19's International office in London from August 2018, as part of the Human Resources team, now known as the People and Culture team, developing and maintaining the HR function and its practices and processes across the organisation. She has a Masters degree in Human Rights at UCL, and is HR CIPD qualified. She is currently the International People and Culture Partner at ARTICLE 19, covering the following areas: recruitment, resourcing and talent planning; the full employee life cycle; HR policies and practices across A19; contracting procedures; monthly payroll; employee relations; employee well-being; coaching; talent management; organisation performance and development; HR systems and HR intranet; HR data analytics; and other ad hoc generalist projects.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director for Tunisia and Middle East and North Africa
Since joining ARTICLE 19 in 2012, Saloua has led the organisation's programs in Tunisia and gradually in other countries of the MENA region. She has 15 years of experience working in non-governmental and multi-lateral organisations, including the UNDP in Tunisia and the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR). Saloua holds an MSc in Information and Communication from the Institute of Press and Information Sciences in Tunisia. She is accredited as a BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) Facilitator.
Job Titles:
- Director of Communications and Campaigns Communications and Campaigns Team
Sara Wilbourne joined ARTICLE 19 in 2016 to lead the development of the organisations' international communications strategy together with the evolution of international campaigns.
Sara has extensive experience in NGO communications primarily with Amnesty International Secretariat where she held senior positions with responsibility for international publications and strategic communications. She led the development of the iconic Amnesty international brand during a seven-year process which resulted in the first unified global expression of the organisation. Prior to joining Amnesty Sara spent the first twenty years of her career in the field of educational and academic publishing, first joining Longman Scientific and Technical division (now Pearson), and going on to become the youngest university press publisher in Europe in 1992 when she took over the reins of Cork University Press. Sara went on to become the President of the Irish Publishers Association in 2000 and the launched a number of ground-breaking titles with authors who taught her the joy of collaboration and diversity in pursuit of knowledge.
Job Titles:
- Head of Protection Protection Team
Silvia Chocarro joined ARTICLE 19 in January 2019. She is the Head of Protection, leading the strategy on the safety of journalists, human rights defenders and civil society. She sits on the IFEX Council, she is a member of the Centre for Freedom of Media (University of Sheffield) and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society (Central European University).
In her 20-year career, Silvia has worked for intergovernmental organizations, for example at UNESCO in the development of the UN Plan of Action on the safety of journalists; for freedom of expression coalitions, for example leading international advocacy for IFEX; for media development NGOs on issues related to the safety of journalists, community media, gender and media and strategic communications; and for media outlets, as foreign correspondent in Spain, Mexico and the US. Silvia is the author of several publications, for example "Nosotras en el país de las Comunicaciones: voces y miradas de mujeres". She holds a PhD in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Job Titles:
- in 2018 As Programme Officer for Europe
Suay joined ARTICLE 19 in 2018 as Programme Officer for Europe and Central Asia team. She conducts research on digital rights and content moderation. She also provides support to ARTICLE 19's legal submissions related to freedom of expression cases in Turkey.
Job Titles:
- International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team
X Taiwo joined ARTICLE 19 in May 2021 as part of the People and Culture team. She is CIPD qualified with a diploma in International HR and a BA in Human Resource Management, and with over 15 years working within the HR field and the INGO sector, Taiwo comes with a wealth of experience in areas such as strategic HR, employment relations, employment law, performance and talent management, change management, coaching and training. Taiwo has supported teams from all over the world, from Latin America through to the Middle East and Africa and is passionate about capacity building managers, diversity and equity, cross cultural working and how these can all be harnessed to meet organisational objectives.
Job Titles:
- Finance Purchase Ledger Assistant Finance Team
- Finance Team in May 2020 As the Finance Purchase Ledger Assistant. He Is Responsible for Looking After Supplier Payments, Staff Expenses, and Bank Reconciliations
Terry Warner joined ARTICLE 19's Finance team in May 2020 as the Finance Purchase Ledger Assistant. He is responsible for looking after supplier payments, staff expenses, and bank reconciliations.
Terry's experience comes from starting out as an office junior in the finance sector. Over the years, he has gained vast experience in sales/purchase ledger and bookkeeping, across various industries including, Media, Retail, and the financial payments sector.
Zwelakhe Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid journalist, editor of the black-run newspaper New Nation, and member of ARTICLE 19's Board.