ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL - Key Persons

Andrew Dickson is Managing Director and Corporate Secretary of BlackRock, Inc., the world's largest asset manager, and manages a team of lawyers and governance professionals in the legal and compliance department. He is responsible for providing legal counsel on BlackRock's strategic transactions, corporate finance, SEC reporting, investor relations, and corporate governance activities. As the Corporate Secretary of BlackRock he advises BlackRock's Board of Directors on its role and responsibilities, assists the Board in monitoring corporate governance developments, oversees the Board and committee meeting processes, and engages with BlackRock's shareholders. Prior to joining BlackRock, Andrew was a corporate attorney with the law firm Davis Polk and Wardwell, LLP in its offices in New York and Hong Kong. Prior to attending law school, he served as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State in a variety of diplomatic roles, including posts overseas in Syria and Taiwan and as a political officer on the "China Desk" at the Department of State, where he covered human rights and rule of law matters. In 2004 he served in Karbala, Iraq as the Coalition Provisional Authority's principal liaison to the local Iraqi government and tribal leaders. In that capacity he led strategic initiatives to promote civil society and coordinated reconstruction and infrastructure projects with the joint coalition military forces and the Iraqi government. Andrew earned a Bachelor's degree in international relations with highest honors from the College of William and Mary and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Truman National Security Fellow, a graduate of Echoing Green's Direct Impact Program, and serves as a mentor to members of the U.S. armed services considering career transitions to government service or the private sector. A specialist in corporate governance, he is a member of the Advisory Committees of the New York Chapter of the Society of Corporate Governance and the Securities Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Anirudha Nagar

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Consultant
Member of the Developments

Anirudha Nagar joined Accountability Counsel as a Consultant in 2015. He was Communities Director at Accountability Counsel from 2016 to 2021. He supports our cases in Asia, working with local partners in the region to assist communities to defend their environmental and human rights. Anirudha's human rights legal experience includes casework and policy advocacy in both international and domestic settings. Prior to joining Accountability Counsel, he worked for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative - an international NGO based in New Delhi - where he advocated for police accountability across South Asia. Previously, he worked in the Office of the Prosecution at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, advising the Chief Prosecutor on international law and procedure. He has also worked at the Tenants Union of Victoria in Australia providing legal advice to aggrieved tenants facing imminent homelessness.

Anisha Gupta

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2012 )

Anna Zeng

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Data Intern ( Spring 2018 )

Anne Bellows

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2011 )

Annie Delmedico

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Executive Intern ( Summer 2018 )

Ant Williams

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Graduate Research Fellow ( Spring 2022 - Spring 2023 )

Antonina Mangiola

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Policy Fellow ( Summer 2019 )

Astha Guragain

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Executive Intern ( Spring 2020 )

Autumn-Jade Stoner

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Executive Intern ( Summer 2021 )

Avalon Bauman

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Partner
Research Fellow

Avalon is a current Master of Public Policy candidate at UC Berkeley interested in using data science to address emerging public policy issues. As a graduate student researcher, she has supported the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans to research economic, social, and political issues affecting young adults in the U.S. Prior to graduate school, she worked on digital marketing, technology, and environmental education at organizations including the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Ashoka, and Salesforce. Avalon received her BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and speaks Spanish as well as intermediate French and Portuguese.

Belén Carriedo

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Policy Fellow ( Spring - Summer 2021 )

Ben Lewis

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2010 )

Beth Van Schaack

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Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School

Biola Macaulay

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Intern ( Fall 2014 )

Bo Peterson

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2016 )

Brandy Hoang

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Research Intern ( Fall 2021 )

Brent Horowitz

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Vice President, Global Product Partnerships, Twitter ( Accountability Counsel Board Member Emeritus )

Gideon Kracov - Private practice lawyer in civil law, environmental, and zoning cases

Brian McWalters

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Policy Fellow ( Spring 2018 )

Briana Megid

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Data Intern ( Fall 2017 )

Brianna Krong

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Intern ( Summer 2014 )

Brooke Beyer

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Policy Intern ( Summer 2021 )

Caitlin Daniel

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Communities Co - Director
Law Fellow ( Spring 2012 )

Caitlin Daniel joined Accountability Counsel in 2014. Caitlin now leads our Communities Program as Communities Co-Director. Until 2022, Caitlin's work as a Senior Attorney at Accountability Counsel involved working with local partners to assist communities around the world to defend their environmental and human rights. She has been a lead lawyer in our cases in Mongolia and Ukraine, among others, while also collaborating as a leader in our research work. Caitlin earned her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. After graduating, she worked with the Lawyer's Association for the Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP) in Nepal to defend the rights of indigenous groups facing harm from large-scale development projects. She has also worked in U.S. immigration law as an associate at CPG Immigration Law Group. During law school, Caitlin competed in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, earning second place on the international level for her legal brief. She received training in negotiations and mediation strategy and competed as a member of Hastings' Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition Team. Outside of law school, she explored a variety of public interest fields, including indigent criminal defense, advocating for national security, immigration and criminal justice policy reform, and human rights and corporate accountability work through positions with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, the Open Society Foundations, and Accountability Counsel. Caitlin also served as Co-President of the General Assistance Advocacy Project (GAAP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing legal services and advocacy for San Francisco's homeless and low-income residents. Prior to law school, Caitlin worked in U.S. immigration law at Laura Devine Solicitors in London, England. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Global Studies and Italian from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Caitlin speaks Italian and basic Spanish.

Carla Ortiz

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Senior People Manager

With over 15 years of extensive experience in People Operations, including 8 years dedicated to Human Resources, I have crafted a dynamic career journey spanning from the bustling streets of New York to the vibrant landscapes of San Francisco and, most recently, Los Angeles. My expertise has been honed across diverse settings, including luxury, resort, and urban lifestyle properties.

Carolina Isaza

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Data Intern ( Summer 2017 )

Caroline Anderson

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Executive Intern ( Fall 2020 )

Caroline Reiser

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2015 )

Carolyn Rashby

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Director

Catherine Chang

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Research Intern ( Fall 2019 )
Research Intern ( Spring 2021 - Fall 2021 )

Catherine Norris

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2010 )

Charlotte Chan Lee

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Research Intern ( Summer 2022 )

Chloe Dimopoulos

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2019 )

Christina Ennis

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2020 )

Christine Dutko

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2013 )

Christine Keough

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Data Intern ( Fall 2017 )

Christine Zülow

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Law Fellow ( Fall 2013 )

Christopher Liu

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Executive Intern ( Fall 2021 and Fall 2022 )

Christy Chin

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Venture Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation ( Accountability Counsel Board Member Emeritus )

Claire O'Brien

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Research Intern ( Spring 2020 - Summer 2020 )

Clare Mathias

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Communications Intern ( Summer 2017 )

Claris Park

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Policy Fellow ( Fall 2021 )

Claudia Fernandez

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2022 )

Courtney Christensen

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Policy Fellow ( Fall 2019 )

David Hunter

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Director
Professor of Law at American University 's Washington College of Law

David Hunter is a Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, where he researches and teaches international environmental and human rights law. David was formerly Executive Director of the Center for International Environmental Law, an environmental consultant to the Czech and Slovak environmental ministries, Executive Director of WaterWatch of Oregon, and an associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. For more than twenty-five years he has advocated for effective environmental and social standards and associated accountability mechanisms at international financial institutions. He also currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-US, and the Project on Government Oversight. He is co-author of International Environmental Law & Policy and Climate Change and the Law and many articles on international environmental law.

Dhriti Pandhi

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Law Fellow ( Fall 2011 )

Dickens Otieno Ochieng

Dickens Otieno Ochieng joins Accountability Counsel in 2023 through Shiftproject's John Ruggie Fellowship Program. He will work closely with the Communities Program to amplify the voices of communities harmed by internationally financed project. Prior to this role, Dickens was a Research and Legal intern with Human Rights Watch, Africa Division, where he researched and monitored violence from military factions and militia groups against women and children in South Sudan. He also worked as a Research Assistant to the United Nations Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, where he helped conduct research on the intersection of fiscal policies, the environment and human rights. Dickens completed his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya in 2023, where he served as a Law Review Editor with University of Nairobi Law Journal (UNLJ) and as an Undergraduate Researcher at the Committee on Fiscal Studies (CFS), working on tax and human rights related projects. He has also undertaken courses on human rights campaigns, tax payers' rights, and recently on Business and Human Rights. His other human rights experience includes volunteering as a coordinator with the Refugee Legal Network (RLN), where he mobilized over 50 volunteer law professionals and students who are providing pro-bono legal services to refugees in Kenya. He has also volunteered in public interest cases as a researcher, and has served as a moot court judge on human rights questions.

Dimitra Karakioulaki

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Policy Fellow ( Spring 2022 )

Dion Romano

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2023 )

Donna Kim

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Law Fellow ( Fall 2017 )

Eleanor Harrison

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Development Intern ( Spring 2021 )

Eliza McCullough

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Research Intern ( Fall 2019 )

Eliza Petrella

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Development Intern ( Spring 2019 )

Emil Dixon

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2011 )

Emilie Jones

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2018 )

Emma Buday

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Partner
Research Intern

Emma is a senior at Stanford University, pursuing a BA in international relations and a MA in sustainability. She is interested in global renewable energy development and is passionate about researching, and ultimately mitigating, its impacts. Previously, Emma has interned with organizations to research broader climate policies, so she is excited to work with community-driven data at Accountability Counsel.

Erica Gould

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Director
Director of the International Relations Honors Program at Stanford University

Erica Gould is the Director of the International Relations Honors Program at Stanford University. She is a political scientist whose research has centered mainly around the question of how international organizations are controlled. Her publications include Money Talks: The International Monetary Fund, Conditionality and Supplementary Financiers (Stanford University Press, 2006), as well as articles in International Organization and several edited volumes. She is currently working on a project concerning international organizational decision-making rules. At Stanford, Erica has taught courses on international organizations, international political economy, honors thesis writing, and other topics in international relations. She was previously on the faculty at the University of Virginia, has taught courses at Johns Hopkins University and the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), and has lectured widely on her research on international organizations. Erica received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and her B.A. from Cornell University.

Erin Ricci

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Global Programs Manager, Bohemian Foundation

Esther Galan

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Intern ( Spring 2013 )

Ethan Oro

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Data Intern ( Summer 2018 )

Fernanda Venzon

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Director
Staff Attorney

Fernanda Venzon is a staff attorney at the Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC). Her role includes helping local lawyers developing legal strategies, drafting amicus curiae briefs, and conducting research on the applicable national and international frameworks in a range of cases in Latin America in which local communities have been affected by natural resource development projects. Fernanda holds advanced degrees from Brazil and the United Kingdom in international law, environmental management, and development management, and has a wealth of experience in the human rights and environment area. Prior to joining EDLC, she served as the Executive Director of the Sierra Madre Alliance in Mexico, where she formulated land claims under international human rights frameworks for Tarahumara indigenous communities. She also worked in the Brazilian Amazon, providing legal advice and education on environmental law to traditional peoples living in protected areas.

Fiona Joseph

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Development Intern ( Spring 2022 )

Gabriela Radu

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Policy Fellow ( Fall 2017 )

Gary Cookhorn

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Partner
Treasurer of the Board

Gary Cookhorn is an experienced finance and investment industry professional. His career has spanned finance, strategy, and operations in both the private and public sector. Gary is currently a member of Health2047 Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on investing in U.S.-based healthcare startups, including those with promising artificial intelligence, data connectivity and other technology-related solutions. Before joining Health2047 Capital Partners Gary was a managing director at Fortress Investment Group, a global investment management firm. At Fortress, he was involved in client-relationship management and several special projects, including helping to establish Pantera Capital, a blockchain-related investment firm. Earlier in his career, Gary worked as Finance chief at the New York headquarters of UNFPA, a division of the United Nations Development Programme and later headed the World Bank's Loan Services Group in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for financial operations and client services relating to the World Bank's loan portfolio. He helped establish an operational center for the bank in Chennai, India. In addition to sitting on the board of Accountability Counsel, Gary sits on the advisory board of BizWorld, a non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the board of Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp (BCSA: Nasdaq). He received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Kings College, University of London.

Gayatridevi Dinar

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Tarcar - Software Engineering Intern ( Summer 2022 )

Grace Pringle

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Intern ( Spring - Summer 2011 )

Gregory Berry

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Member of the New York State
Policy Associate

Gregory Berry joined Accountability Counsel as a Policy Associate in 2019 after serving two years as a staff attorney for the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division. His public interest experience includes contributing to a variety of environmental and human rights initiatives through legal internships with Center for International Environmental Law, Vermont Natural Resources Council, and Connecticut River Conservancy, a summer fellowship with Natural Resources Defense Council, and clinical work with Vermont Law School's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic. Gregory earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School, where he was an Environmental Missions Scholar and the 2016 Vermont/Cuba Agricultural Systems Fellow. As part of the agricultural systems fellowship, Gregory reported on methodologies to bolster organic agricultural markets and served as a research assistant for an organic agriculture benchmarking study sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He was the 2017 recipient of Vermont Law Review's Dean Jonathan B. Case Writing Award for a note on reconciling the United Nations' Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights with Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines. He received Vermont Law Review's 2015 Ballenger-Green Diversity Paper Award for an advocacy piece encompassing pursuit-of-happiness jurisprudence and racial reconciliation in the United States. Gregory co-chaired the student Environmental Law Society and was a member of the National Black Law Students Association. Prior to law school, Gregory earned a Master's in Environmental Law and Policy, with a concentration in Water Resources Law. His prior work experience includes working as an outdoor education instructor, a white water rafting guide, a trip leader for an international voluntourism/ecotourism outfitter, and a child behavior support specialist. Gregory is a member of the New York State and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations. His pro bono work includes volunteering at landlord/tenant court proceedings.

Guillermo Padilla

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Lawyer and Anthropologist, CEPIADET ( Centro Profesional Indígena De Asesoría Defensa Y Traducción )

Gursimran Bhullar

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Executive Intern ( Spring 2021 )

Hannah Schiweck

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Director of Finance & Administration

Hiran Dewar

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Research Intern ( Summer 2022 )
Software Engineering Intern ( Spring and Summer 2022 )

Hope Kwiatkowski

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2015 )

Imron Bhatti

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Law Fellow

Iris Mattes

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2015 )

Iris Vukovic

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Research Intern ( Summer 2022 )

Irmak Ersoz

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Research Intern ( Summer 2023 )

Ishita Chakrabarty

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Asia Development Justice Fellow
Development Justice Fellow

Ishita Chakrabarty joins Accountability Counsel in 2023. As an Asia Development Justice Fellow, she will work closely with Communities Program to amplify the voices of communities in defending their human rights and environmental rights. Ishita recently graduated with an M.A in International Law from the Graduate Institute Geneva, where she pursued her studies as a Wilsdorf scholar and with specialisations in global governance and migration. Prior to this role, Ishita worked as a Research Officer with the Quill Foundation in India, on matters concerning persecution of religious minorities, and their substantive rights to citizenship. She advocated for reform in counter-terrorism and anti-money laundering norms as they disproportionately affect civic space and minorities. Amongst others, Ishita was instrumental in thinking through the domestic jurisprudence on cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, and extra-custodial torture, in the context of police violence and state-sponsored violence. Ishita is an avid researcher with strong interest in socio-legal studies. She has published several academic articles and co-authored book chapters on international criminal law and migration. More recently, she worked as a Programme Assistant at the Climate Vulnerable Forum Secretariat, looking at aspects of loss and damage, climate migration and disaster displacement, return migration and diaspora contributions to climate adaptation and resilience. In that capacity she has worked with UN agencies, and international organizations partners. Her role at the CVF Secretariat further piqued her interest in climate and environmental justice. At Accountability Counsel, Ishita aims to understand how international financial actors and national policy makers within developing states may have caused harm to the environment and human rights of their citizens and how affected peoples can hold these financial and political institutions accountable.

J.Y. Hoh

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2015 )

Jacob Goffin

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Research Fellow ( Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 )

Jamison Hayward

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Operations & Communications Intern ( Summer 2016 )

Jason Haggins

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Advisor
Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Partner
Executive Director of the Sall Family Foundation

Jason Haggins is Executive Director of the Sall Family Foundation. An expert in philanthropy, finance, and business, we welcomed Jason to our Board in December 2016. He brings more than 10 years of domestic and international forensic accounting investigation experience. As Executive Director of the Sall Family Foundation, he is committed to a world where our common natural heritage is valued, human needs are balanced with sustainability, scientific inquiry enriches us, and decisions are made with the best information. He chairs the Foundation's investment committee and is also a part of the entrepreneurial initiatives committee, which focuses on early stage philanthropic organizations. Jason was previously a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal, where he advised clients on bankruptcy and accounting-based issues. He specializes in evaluating businesses, developing business and recapitalization plans, and providing strategic advice for building consensus among a company's various constituencies. Separately, Jason is an advisor to an emerging market social entrepreneurial fund, Capria Accelerator Fund. This fund focuses on the global missing middle opportunity by providing flexible financing, expertise, and support to startup fund managers to get their first or second fund launched more quickly. Jason earned bachelors degrees in accounting and economics from North Carolina State University and an MBA with specialties in corporate finance and capital markets from New York University's Stern School of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Jayna Sutherland

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2013 )

Jesse Belmontes

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Data Intern ( Spring 2016 )

Jessica Lu

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Law Fellow, Asia ( Summer 2020 )

Joanne Bauer

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Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

John Ruggie

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Fellow, Africa
John Ruggie Fellow, Africa

Jordan Williams

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Communications Intern ( Spring 2018 )

Julia Shepardson

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Co - Treasurer, America Nepal Medical Foundation ( Accountability Counsel Board Member Emeritus )

Julie Dostal

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2017 )

Julie Hunter

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Law Fellow ( Fall 2012 )

Julio Castor Achmadi

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Communities Associate, Asia

Julio Castor Achmadi is a passionate human rights advocate who has been working on human rights, democracy and access to justice in Asia and beyond. He joined Accountability Counsel as a Communities Associate in 2022. Julio earned his Bachelor of Laws from Universitas Indonesia and is a member of the Indonesian Bar Association. He has worked closely with many communities across the globe to defend their rights. Julio previously led a human rights defenders program in Indonesia to strengthen environmental human rights defenders' protection in defending the right to a healthy environment, and the National Human Rights Institutions Programme in Asia to improve compliances of these institutions with relevant international standards in conducting their mandates. He is particularly close with refugee communities in Asia Pacific in the course of advancing refugee rights in the region as he holds the roles of Secretary at SUAKA Indonesia and the Chair of South East Asia Working Group at Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network. In his spare time, Julio likes to write articles and journals on human rights issues, some of which have been published in renowned national and regional media outlets. He is also a foodie with passions in sharing good foods around the world and immersing in new cultures through cuisines.

Justin Ahmed

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Intern ( Spring - Summer 2011 )

Karen Kwok

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Intern ( Fall 2009 - Fall 2010 )

Kashvi Chandok

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Policy Fellow ( Spring 2023 )

Kate Forrester

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Intern ( Summer 2015 )

Kate Schnell

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Policy Fellow ( Summer 2019 )

Katherine Adamides

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2012 )

Katherine McDonnell

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2012 )

Kathleen Elliott

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Law Fellow ( Fall 2019 )

Kathryn Pettit

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2020 )

Katie Daugherty

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Communications Intern ( Spring 2018 )

Katie McKinney

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Policy Fellow ( Summer 2023 )

Katie Weiner

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Executive Intern ( Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 )

Keith Armstrong

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2018 )

Kelly Armijo

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Research Fellow ( Summer 2019 - Summer 2020 )

Kelly Cruchett

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Executive Intern ( Summer 2020 )

Kelsey Thurman

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Policy Fellow ( Summer 2018 )

Ken Greenstein

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Partner, Greenstein & McDonald

Kim Keller - Chairman

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Chairman of the Board
Partner
Executive Director of the David & Anita Keller Family Foundation

Kim Keller is the Executive Director of the David & Anita Keller Family Foundation, a Bay Area-based family foundation committed to human rights as the cornerstone to peace and justice. She is deeply engaged and passionate about international human rights and strategic philanthropy. In addition to serving on the boards of the Foundation for National Progress (Mother Jones) and Accountability Counsel, Kim is an active member of The Philanthropy Workshop West, Global Philanthropy Forum, and the International Human Rights Funders Group. In 2011, she volunteered with the Carter Center as an election observer during the Liberian presidential election. Prior to directing her family's foundation, Kim worked in social science research and policy analysis for Bay Area non-profits including the Prevention Research Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and for the Department for Veterans' Affairs. Kim holds degrees from Wellesley College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kim Ngo

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Data Intern ( Summer - Fall 2018 )

Kristin Beharry

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2014 )

Kristina Aiad-Toss

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2021 )

Kyle Heitmann

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2018 )

Lama Almoayed

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Research Associate

Lani Inverarity

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Director of Programs & Strategy

Lani Inverarity first joined Accountability Counsel as a Robina Foundation International Human Rights Fellow in 2015. As Director of Programs and Strategy, Lani oversees our programmatic work and strategies holistically, supports our program teams to identify and overcome barriers to impact, and collaborates with the Executive team on cross-organizational issues affecting wellness, security, professional development, and values at Accountability Counsel. Prior to this role, Lani spent more than five years as part of Accountability Counsel's Communities team. There, she supported hundreds of displaced Haitian farmers to negotiate a historic agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Haitian Government. She also provided in-depth support to communities in Colombia, Kenya, Mongolia, and Ukraine, and advice to countless others globally. She worked closely with the Policy program on US Government and Inter-American Development Bank-related advocacy, and with the Research program on the development of remote survey and other research tools. Prior to joining Accountability Counsel, Lani received a Masters in Law from Yale Law School in 2015. Prior to Yale, Lani spent two years as a Judges' Clerk in the High Court of New Zealand, followed by two and a half years as Assistant Crown Counsel on the Constitutional and Human Rights Team at Crown Law. In her role at Crown Law, she provided legal advice and representation services to the New Zealand government on a range of domestic and international human rights issues, including in the context of prisoners' rights, immigration, detention and search powers, and health policy. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Hons.) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington. Lani is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

Lara Berlin

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2011 )

Laura Maldonado

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Intern ( Summer 2010 )

Laura Vittet-Adamson

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2016 )

Lauren Sillman

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Policy Fellow ( Summer 2017 )

Lauren Simenauer

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Policy Fellow ( Fall 2018 )

Lea Main-Klingst

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Klingst - Policy Fellow ( Spring 2020 )

Leila Youssef

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Development Intern ( Spring 2019 )

Leila Yow

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Research Intern ( Summer 2021 )

Leon Bi

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Data Intern ( Summer 2019 )

Libby Marsh

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Associate Vice President of Development, Earthjustice

Libby Orrick

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Intern ( Fall 2012 )

Lisa Trainer Fields

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Consultant, Former Microsoft Executive

Lloyd Lyall

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2022 )

Lorik Rexhepi

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Policy Fellow ( Spring 2018 )

Lucia Nuñez

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Intern ( Summer 2014 )

Lucía Caballero

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Research Intern ( Summer 2018 )

Lydia Hanson

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Policy Fellow ( Fall 2019 )

Lynn Ta

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2011 )

Madigan Griffin

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Development & Communications Manager
Executive Intern ( Summer 2018 )

Madigan Griffin joined the Accountability Counsel team as the Executive Coordinator in April 2020. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations, International Development, and French from Tulane University. As part of her degree program, she studied in Paris at the Institut d'Études Politiques for one year, where she focused on international law and political science. Before joining Accountability Counsel, Madigan worked as a Fundraising Officer for the Lebanese NGO Blue Mission Organization in Saida, Lebanon, who provides medical, mental health, and capacity-building support to Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian communities throughout South Lebanon. She also worked as a Volunteer Coordinator in Lesvos, Greece with Home for All, a Greek nonprofit community kitchen that emphasizes dignity and respect in their effort to support people seeking asylum on Greece's shores. As an undergraduate student, Madigan supported Accountability Counsel's mission as both an Executive Intern and a Translator. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, camping, rafting, and painting, and she loves trying new things (next up: beekeeping!).

Maggie Dougherty

Job Titles:

Policy Intern ( Summer 2020 )

Margaux Day

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Executive Director

Margaux Day became Accountability Counsel's Executive Director in February 2024. Margaux leads our work to create a world where people and our planet are prioritized over profits; powerful institutions are responsive to the needs of communities; and the global financial system respects human and environmental rights. Previously, Margaux was Accountability Counsel's Policy Director and led our advocacy to make international financial institutions accountable to the communities they impact. Margaux joined Accountability Counsel after working for the Public International Law & Policy Group, where she advised and worked alongside parties to peace negotiations, civil society advocates pursuing transitional justice, and advocates documenting and seeking justice for war crimes. Before working for non-profit organizations, Margaux advised corporations on anti-corruption and environmental compliance, first as an associate at Jones Day (in Shanghai, China and Columbus, Ohio) and later as Deputy Chief Compliance Officer of Diebold Nixdorf (in Singapore). Margaux served as a judicial clerk for Honorable Solomon Oliver Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Margaux is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the College of Wooster, where she serves as an Alumni Trustee. She completed the International Investigators' Course at the Institute for International Criminal Investigations. Margaux speaks some Spanish and beginner Mandarin Chinese.

Maria Fernanda Quintero Sirtori

Job Titles:

Law Fellow ( Summer 2023 )
Sirtori - Post - Graduate Communities Fellow ( Fall 2023 )

Maria Wong

Job Titles:

Communities Fellow ( Fall 2020 )
Research Intern ( Summer 2020 )

Marisa Lenci

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Data Intern ( Spring 2018 )

Matt McConnell

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2016 )

Matt Palmer

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Law Fellow ( Fall 2010 )

Maxwell Jenkins-Goetz

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Development & Operations Intern ( Fall 2017 )

Maya Delaney

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Policy Fellow ( Summer 2018 )

Maya Ephrem

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Development & Operations Intern ( Summer 2017 )

Maïmouna Diarra

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Law Fellow

Megan Pearson

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Policy Associate

Megan first joined Accountability Counsel as a Post-Graduate Policy Fellow in 2021. She advocates for development finance institutions to provide remedy when their investments cause environmental and human rights harms to communities. Megan received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Her advocacy covered a wide range of issues, including sexual and reproductive rights and the right to legal assistance for people detained in counterterrorism proceedings. She served as Parliamentarian of the Black Law Students Association and was an editor on the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. As a student, she worked at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti on promoting accountability for UN peacekeeping abuses and state-sponsored violence against protesters. She also interned at the European Court of Human Rights, where her research focused on state responsibility for environmental disasters and industrial accidents. Before law school, Megan created educational content for Haitian Kreyòl learners at HaitiHub LLC. She graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in English and minors in African & African American Studies and French. Megan is based in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Meghan Natenson

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Law Fellow ( Summer 2014 )

Megumi Tsutsui

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Senior Research Associate

Megumi earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School. After graduating, she worked with Housing and Economic Rights Advocates in Oakland to provide bilingual legal financial advice to low-income individuals on a range of consumer financial protection issues including debt collection defense, credit counseling, assistance with student loan forgiveness, and options for medical debt. She also served on California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education Advisory Committee. During law school, Megumi clerked for the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa conducting research to identify legal protections for artisanal small miners and assisting with know-your-rights workshops for a mining community devastated by a collapsed mining tunnel. Through Harvard's Human Rights Clinic, Megumi also collaborated with Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre on numerous endeavors to raise the voices of youth in demanding basic education rights and to challenge discrimination and inequitable funding in the school system. Throughout law school, she was also actively involved in the Law and International Development Society, and led the organization in developing research projects at the intersection of law and international development. Prior to law school, Megumi worked in strategy consulting, providing advice to a range of organizations including foundations, nonprofits, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. She holds a bachelor's degree in Public Policy from Stanford University. Megumi is bilingual in Spanish.

Melissa Liu

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Software Engineering Intern ( Summer 2023 )

Merrell Guzman

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Research Intern ( Fall 2020 )

Mette Frederiksen

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Communities Fellow ( Fall 2016 )

Michael Jarvis

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Member of the Audit Committee
Partner

Michael is an expert in good governance and multi-stakeholder approaches and a champion of impactful funding for these issues. He leads the Transparency and Accountability Initiative - a collaborative of funders supporting transparency, participation and accountability related efforts around the globe via over $500 million in active grants. In past roles, notably at the World Bank, he incubated new initiatives ranging from collective action against corruption to a business alliance against malnutrition to the Open Contracting Partnership that promotes better outcomes from $9.5 trillion in public-private contracts globally. With deep expertise on natural resource governance issues, Michael was the World Bank's Global Lead for Extractives Governance. In pre-pandemic days he could often be found in obscure music venues, missing past radio DJing days.

Mireille Becerra

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Policy Fellow ( Spring - Summer 2022 )

Monica Mahal

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Law Fellow ( Spring 2021 )

Monica Vesga

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Law Fellow ( Summer - Fall 2018 )

Natalie Bridgeman Fields

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Founder and Former Executive Director of Accountability Counsel ( Accountability Counsel Board Member Emeritus )

Natalie Bridgeman Fields founded Accountability Counsel to continue more than a decade of her work toward environmental and human rights accountability in international finance and development. Accountability Counsel's status as a nonprofit organization began in September 2009, after Natalie received an Echoing Green Fellowship to support the organization's founding. We were recognized as a high impact social enterprise with a fellowship from the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation in 2015.