Structure

James is an anti-corruption advocate and is a 2013 Anglophone West Africa Youth Integrity Ambassador. He coordinates the Liberia CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition, the biggest conglomeration of CSOs working in the anti-corruption space advocating for a more transparent, open and accountable government in Liberia. He is also the National Secretary-General of the Federation of Liberian Youth-FLY. Over the last decade, James has developed and successfully supervised, implemented and managed many youth focused anti-corruption projects and programs across Liberia. James is a candidate for a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the Cuttington University Graduate School. He holds a postgraduate certificate in human rights & drug policy from the University of Ghana, School of Law, and is an Alumni of the US Department of State Community Solutions Program. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Public administration from the University of Liberia and was part of the 2019 Accountability Incubator Program implemented by Accountability Lab.

Christian Mounzeo is president of Meeting for Peace and Human Rights (known by its French acronym RPDH), national coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign. As a former Board member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and member of the Congo EITI multi stakeholder, over a decade, he advocates for transparency and accountability in natural resources management and try to link the impact of oil, mining and forestry exploitation on human rights development and specially on economic, social and community rights. He advocates also for more transparency and integrity in democratic processes, particularly in the election process in Congo. A champion of human rights, he played a leading role in bringing to light human rights abuses and cases of impunity, torture, etc. Working in a continued harassment context, he seeks to build alliances with policymakers nationally and internationally while strengthening Congolese civil society. Degree in Journalism at Marien Ngouaby University, He is a graduate of the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he completed a training program in conflict management and prevention, as well as the Human rights advocate program training at Columbia University in USA.

Fátima Mimbire, Journalist, Human Right Defender and transparency activist, with experience as researcher on the Extractive Sector, focusing on governance. Was CSO representative at Mozambique EITI MSG (2013-2017), and was coordinator of the National Extractive Industry Platform (2015-2017). Now is coordinating the SWF Project (Strengthen CSO and Parliamentary engagement in the establishment of a SWF for Mozambique) leaded by CCIE/PWYP Mozambique and Nweti.

Dr Fatima Diallo is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Action on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CRADESC). She is a lawyer and legal anthropologist with fifteen years of experience as an academic, international consultant and development actor. She was a Senior Researcher at the University of Cape Town and Deputy Secretary General of the African Constitutional Law Network (South Africa) before taking up the position of Extractive Industries and Infrastructure Manager for Francophone Africa at Natural Justice. 

She is Vice-Chair and member of the United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. 

Fatima holds a PhD from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and graduated from the University Gaston Berger (Senegal).

Brice was a co-founder of the first PWYP coalition in Africa, and has been a member of the EITI Congo Executive Committee since 2007. He has served as Permanent Secretary of the Commission of Justice and Peace for the Catholic Church in Congo Brazzaville, focusing on oil revenue transparency. In 2008, he became Deputy Coordinator of Justice and Peace Commissions, in charge of advocacy on extractive industries. In 2012, he was appointed Coordinator of Justice and Peace for the ACERAC (Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad) sub-region.

As Director of Communications and Campaigns , Joe works with the secretariat and across our member network to conceive and execute powerful advocacy campaigns driven by strategic communications. Joe brings experience in delivering strategic communications, network-driven campaigns and corporate accountability. Prior to joining PWYP in 2020, Joe led communications at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre for six years. He holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

Eric has worked for more than a decade on natural resource governance issues in Central Africa and beyond, including serving as a civil society representative to the EITI MSG in Cameroon from 2012 to 2015 and more recently developing an internal strategy for responding to violations of PWYP members’ rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and contributing to the development of practical EITI training materials for PWYP members. Prior to joining the PWYP Secretariat, Eric was a program coordinator for the Centre for Environment and Development (CED), an NGO based in Cameroon; and Program Officer at NRGI in Guinea Conakry where he helped develop NRGI’s 2015-2018 engagement strategy for Guinea and was also responsible for supporting CSOs, parliamentarians and journalists to participate in monitoring the governance of extractive resources. 

As PWYP’s Regional Coordinator, Eric represent PWYP at the regional level, guides our Central African members’ advocacy initiatives and helps develop member coalitions’ capacity. Eric also contributes to the development and implementation of strategic plans and governance mechanisms for the PWYP Secretariat.

Vincent Egoro is an organisational development and project management specialist who is passionate about finding ways to help civil societies achieve their mission and become sustainable. He has extensive experience in partnership building and providing capacity-strengthening interventions to NGOs and Government agencies in the areas of assessment to action planning, project cycle management, strategy development, and resource mobilization.
Before joining PWYP, he was in Caritas Nigeria as a Senior Institutional Capacity
strengthening Specialist. He is a certified facilitator for Project Dpro, Program Dpro, Meal Dpro methodologies. Vincent is experienced in facilitating workshops for both large and small groups, in-person and virtually, conference speaking, and is also skilled in coaching and mentoring.

Ernest Ekurot joined PWYP in November 2019 as the Project Officer for East & Southern Africa, and became Sub-grants coordinator in 2021. He is an experienced Finance professional with over eight years of comprehensive hands-on experience that he gained working with international non-governmental organisations. Throughout this experience, Ernest has been implementing development projects in partnership with multi-donor agencies, and has extensive experience working with partners and different stakeholders. Prior to joining PWYP included providing oversight to all financial, logistical and administrative matters, capacity building of sub grantees and implementing partners. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting) from Makerere University, Kampala and CPA Uganda certification.

Aroa joined PWYP in July 2021. She has 12 years’ experience working with civil society on extractive industries governance, energy and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), including through research, advocacy campaigns, coalition building and project management. From 2014 to 2017 Aroa coordinated the Latin America Network on extractive Industries (RLIE), and represented Latin America on the PWYP Global Council and board. Aroa holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Psychology and a master’s degree in International Cooperation for Development from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She also holds a Diploma on Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú.

Rami joined PWYP in June 2021 . He is a chartered accountant with over 10 years’ experience in the charity and international development sector. As well as finance, he has experience in roles covering operations, project management, governance, and risk management. Past employers include BBC Media Action, where he spent time delivering projects in Tunisia & Lebanon, and the Equal Rights Trust, where as Head of Operations he oversaw significant improvements to the Trust’s financial and operational management systems. Before joining PWYP he was CFO at Child’s i Foundation, a Ugandan charity working to build a community based child protection system. Rami holds a degree in Economics from the University of Exeter.

Annabel is based in Valencia, Spain. A strong communicator and storyteller, she brings a wealth of experience executing powerful network-driven strategic communications and advocacy campaigns for NGOs internationally. Her last position was Social Mobilisation consultant at World Vision International, where she worked to inspire people to take action worldwide with creative messaging and engaging content. She has notably also worked for Save the Children UK, where she was coordinating supporters’ journey and content strategy, and Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK where she was coordinating a network of partner organisations and led a flagship campaign. She holds a MA degree in Human Rights Policy and Practice.

Edwin Ikhuoria is a campaigner from Nigeria with over 20 years of experience leading advocacy efforts to transform governance in Africa to end poverty and save lives. For the last eight years, he has spearheaded ONE’s work on transparency and accountability, most recently as Executive Director for Africa. He has extensive experience collaborating with hundreds of civil society organisations to achieve change. Prior to working with ONE, Edwin held positions with projects funded by financial institutions across West Africa.

Vanessa joined as Finance Manager with Publish What you Pay in January 2019 and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Vanessa has extensive Finance experience across charities, private and not-for-profit organisations in a range of areas including, education, legal, membership, investment management and insurance.

Her role will include ensuring that PWYP’s Finances are managed according to PWYP policies as well as managing the day-to-day financial processes.  She will also provide direct support to non-financial team members and budget holders.

In her spare time Vanessa enjoys listening to podcasts, reading books, spa retreats and hosting board game activities.

Jenny has more than 15 years of experience having previously worked for Moorfield’s Eye charity and Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. In these roles she covered finance, introduction of databases and helped to generate income, focusing mainly with Gift Aid while working with fundraisers. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance, and a Postgraduate in International finance and Investment.

Irene has over 15 years’ experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) functions in governance and advocacy programmes. She has designed, developed and implemented living MEL systems that are able to: capture and demonstrate contributions to outcomes, respond to emerging contextual issues, promote stakeholder accountability, facilitate learning and adaptation; and support fundraising. Her previous roles have allowed Irene to hone in her skills in building the capacity of different stakeholders on MEL. In addition, Irene holds a Masters Degree in Demography from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. In her new role at PWYP, Irene will be supporting the PWYP team on the organisation’s learning and reflection so that PWYP delivers responsive interventions, strengthen the skills of stakeholders on MEL, and increase the team’s skills to collect and showcase results.

After working for four years for Revenue Watch (now called NRGI) supporting its Eurasia Regional Director, Emil joined PWYP in 2016 with extensive prior knowledge of our campaign and coalitions in the region. At Revenue Watch, he contributed to strategy and programme development, before working as a consultant to the World Bank on EITI development in Azerbaijan. Emil coordinates PWYP’s work in the Eurasia region, including strategy development and implementation, advocacy, communications and fundraising.

Fern leads the fundraising efforts at PWYP, bringing wide-ranging experience raising funds and mobilising resources for issues spanning human rights, social justice, health, and environmental advocacy in the UK and overseas. She is responsible for the development and delivery of PWYP’s fundraising strategy to help realise the organisation’s global mission. Before joining PWYP in 2020, she worked as a consultant and writer, helping small to mid-size non-profits achieve ambitious funding targets, engage new supporters, and build sustainable fundraising pipelines. She previously spent five years working with the fundraising team at Global Witness, a transparency and anti-corruption watchdog. She holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of Nottingham.

A qualified practitioner in Prince 2 project management, Stephanie joined PWYP in 2013 bringing wide-ranging experience in operational, research and management roles. At PWYP, she has worked to support governance, communications, grant management and operational processes. As Director of Member Engagement, Stephanie is responsible for supporting PWYP’s regional coordinators in implementing our strategy at national and regional levels, as well as supporting the Executive Director in fundraising. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Sheffield.

A former field officer for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Pierre was Programme Manager at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Beirut before joining PWYP in 2018. He oversaw activities with civil society partners covering issues such as youth participation, sustainable development, electoral reform, the environment, oil and gas governance, and small arms control. As Regional Coordinator for MENA, Pierre links and supports members in Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen and the wider region. Pierre holds BA and MA degrees in International Relations and Diplomacy from Notre Dame University in Lebanon, where he also works part-time as an instructor in the faculty of Law and Political Science. His PhD at the Lebanese University in Beirut analysed Lebanon’s oil and gas sector. He speaks English, Arabic and French.

Naila is responsible for supporting the Executive Director, Senior Management Team, and PWYP’s legally constituted bodies, as well as providing administrative assistance to the wider secretariat team. As a group coordinator and grassroots campaigner, Naila has extensive experience in supporting and managing operations working with socio-environmental groups on climate and social justice, refugees rights and democracy reforms.

Before joining PWYP in 2017, Demba worked with many PWYP Coalitions in West Africa and around the world in his role as Extractive Industries Regional Programme Officer for Oxfam in West Africa. As PWYP’s Regional Coordinator, Demba represents PWYP at the regional level, guides our West African members’ advocacy initiatives and helps develop member coalitions’ capacity. Demba also contributes to the development and implementation of strategic plans and governance mechanisms for the PWYP Secretariat.

He holds a master’s degree in International Relations and is a PhD candidate in Public Law and International Relations at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (Senegal). He speaks French, English and Spanish.

As PWYP’s Communications Coordinator, Zoé is responsible for integrating high-impact strategic communications across PWYP’s campaigns, programmes, and movement building. She joined PWYP in July 2021 after working 10 years at the Belgian francophone section of Amnesty International (AIBF). She started there as a Campaigner and became AIBF’s Campaigns & Advocacy Manager in 2020. Zoé brings a wealth of experience and expertise in strategic communications, campaigns, advocacy and mobilisation on a wide range of human rights issues, from sexual violence to the illegal arms trade. Zoé holds a masters degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Lille and a Complementary Master in Human Rights from the Université Saint-Louis of Brussels.

As Operations Manager, Nyree oversees all aspects of PWYP’s operational support department. This involves ensuring that PWYP’s staff and key stakeholders across multiple countries are provided with the physical, logistical, and administrative support necessary for effective achievement of the organisation’s objectives.

Nyree is a results driven and dedicated operations professional within the global not-for-profit sector. She is passionate about operational excellence, creating high-performing and energised teams capable of working collaboratively across functions and geographies to achieve success.

Prior to joining PWYP, Nyree was Head of People, Systems and Culture at the Resource Alliance. As Head of People, Systems & Culture, Nyree was a key member of the senior management team and responsible for developing and driving the implementation of new systems and processes as well as the people and culture strategy across the organisation.

After 30 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Alan retired in 2007 as the Group’s Vice President for External Affairs. A long-term supporter of revenue transparency in the extractive industries, he has written articles and testified before the US Congress on the need for openness. In addition to PWYP, Alan is a board member of Management Sciences for Health, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, the Natural Resource Charter and the Open Contracting Partnership.

Ali is the national coordinator of ROTAB-PWYP Niger. His recent work has focused on the campaign for Niger to win a fair deal in renegotiations of its uranium contract with French company AREVA. Ali was named Niger’s man of the year in 2013 and featured among Africa’s top 100 influential people. He is a founding member and vice-president of CROISADE Niger, established in 1999 and now one of the country’s leading organisations promoting human rights and democracy. Ali represents civil society on the national committee of EITI Niger. He is Director General of the Independent Press Group, Labari.

Athayde Motta is an experienced development professional and has worked in Brazil and abroad in programme development and management, and fundraising. His areas of expertise include participation, policymaking, communications, urban inequalities, racial inclusion and the organisational development of NGOs. As an academic researcher and consultant, he has worked in Brazil, East Timor, Kenya, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States. He has interned with the Geneva-based United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and has also worked for the Ford Foundation, Afirma Communications and Research, the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (IBASE), Oxfam GB and the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity. Since April 2017, Mr. Motta is the Executive Director of IBASE, based in Rio de Janeiro, where he coordinates the organization’s program on Extractive Industries.

Carlo is a senior international development practitioner and civil society activist, with a long history of volunteering and campaigning in CSOs. He has worked for local CSOs, international NGOs, multilateral organisations and governments in Africa, South America, South East Asia and Western Europe. His development work in Cameroon, Chad, Bolivia and other South American countries shaped his deep commitment to working with local communities to uphold their rights to access land, natural resources and sustainable livelihoods. Carlo has since worked to address issues of civil society engagement, from both policy and capacity-building perspectives. He has contributed to PWYP’s strategy development, governance and advocacy at national, regional and international levels, with determination that every global action empowers people affected by extraction. He is founding member of two local CSOs, in his native Italy and in Cameroon, and is honorary member of the board of ROTAB-PWYP Niger. Carlo studied business economics and social sciences at the University of Pisa and the Universidad de la Cordillera, La Paz, Bolivia.

Saswati Swetlena is a social development professional with 18 years of experience with diverse civil society organisations, grassroots communities, and networks in India on a rights-based approach. She has a fair knowledge and understanding of the rights of indigenous, marginalised and vulnerable communities over natural resources, their access to justice and dignity, poverty, water and sanitation, livelihoods, emergency, gender, social exclusion, extractives, governance and accountability. She is committed to addressing the complex social development challenges and contributing to a more just and equitable world.

With 20 years’ experience at a major law firm, much of this as partner, Susan brings deep insight into litigation strategies used by and against PWYP members. She has particular expertise in charity law through her current role as UK Executive Director of International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP), backed by knowledge of company law and charity accounting. Susan is heavily involved in ISLP’s anti-corruption work, with a strong focus on better natural resource management, greater government transparency and accountability, and support for civil society.

Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri has 15 years’ experience as a legal advisor, advocate and researcher into social and economic rights. She has travelled worldwide leading investigations, empowering marginalised communities, documenting human rights violations, and helping shape social and economic policy at national, regional and international levels. As a global researcher, she has participated in major international studies commissioned by organisations including UN-Habitat, COHRE, MSI Integrity, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Energia, Women Learning Partnership, University College London, Conectas and the Ford Foundation.

In 2011, she founded Spaces for Change, a Facebook group which served as a hub for critical discussion, policy dialogue and civil action by young Nigerian professionals. The group achieved a high national profile when it convened the first-ever digital conference on Nigerian oil reform, the Petroleum Industry Bill, in 2012. Previously, Victoria spent seven years at the Social and Economic Rights Action Center as a legal advisor and program manager, carrying out legal research in Nigeria, Congo, Germany and Kenya. Her work is published in a range of international journals.