Our Team

Executive

Pooven Moodley

Executive Director

Laureen Manuel

Chief Finance and Operations Officer

South Africa

Stanley Peterson

Community Environmental Legal Officer

Amelia Heyns

Programme Manager: Standing with Communities

Sobantu Mzwakali

Senior Programme Officer: Affirming Rights

Melissa Groenink

Programme Manager: Defending Rights

Claire Martens

Senior Communications Officer

Sinoxolo Delanto

Funder Administrator

Job Morris

Community Environmental Legal Officer: Botswana

Allan Basajjasubi

Programme Officer: Defending Rights

Ivan Franklin Vaalbooi

Administrative Coordinator

Ilse Booysen

Bookkeeper

Kenya

Zainab Moroa

Executive and Administrative Assistant: Kenya

Maryama Farah

Senior Programme Officer

Mark Odaga

Senior Programme Officer

Abiud Onyach

Communications Officer: Kenya

Eva Maria Anyango Okoth

Program Officer: Kenya

Emmanuel Siakilo

Research Manager

Saidi Salim

Senior Community Environmental Legal Officer

Gino Cocchiaro

Director: Nairobi Hub & Programme Director: Extractives and Infrastructure

Rose Birgen

Senior Programme Officer

Justus Kithi Tsofa

Senior Community Environmental Legal Officer

Madagascar

Stefana Raharijaona

Programme Officer: Madagascar

Jazzy Rasolojaona

Programme Officer: Traditional Knowledge and Benefit Sharing Programme

Senegal

Thaddée Adiouma SECK

Legal Fellow

Barbara Lassen

Director: Francophone Hub

Guinea

Golota Raphael Lamah

Programme Manager: Extractives and Infrastructure

Zimbabwe

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Fellows and Consultants

Ferdinand Makani

Legal Fellow

Calvince Otieno Ochieng

Research Fellow

Emmaqulate Kemunto Morang’a

Legal Fellow

Victor Oteku

Research Fellow

Farzana Rahman

International Fellow: Cape Town

Daniel Masinde

Environmental Justice Fellow

Sarah Ngachi

Legal Fellow

Mohamed Cissé

Legal Consultant: Guinée

Winnie Changwony

Environmental Justice Fellow: Kenya

Harry Jonas

Consultant: Conservation and Customary Use

Our Board

Makoma Lekalakala

Board Member

Njoki Njoroge Njehû

Board Member

Lucy Mulenkei

Board Member

Pooven Moodley

Executive Director

Eileen de Ravin

Deputy Chair

Hadley Becha

Board Member

Kanchi Kohli

Board Member

Loretta Feris

Chair

Laureen Manuel

Chief Finance and Operations Officer