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Human Rights Watch Council

Human Rights Watch Staff

Executive: Kenneth Roth, executive director; Susan Osnos, associate director; Jennifer Gaboury, executive assistant; Justine Mickle, consultant.

Advocacy: Reed Brody, advocacy director; Lotte Leicht, Brussels office director; Joanna Weschler, U.N. representative; Francisco Cox, international justice counsel; Leon Peijnenburg, E.U. coordinator; Jacqueline Brandner, Maura Dundon, associates; Olivier Bercault, Camille Bonnant, Pascal Kambale, Roemer LeMaitre, consultants.

Communications: Carroll Bogert, communications director; Jean-Paul Marthoz, Brussels press director; Minky Worden, electronic media director; Patrick Minges, publications director; Jagdish Parikh, on-line researcher; Urmi Shah, press information officer; Vanessa Saenen, office and press coordinator (Brussels); Sobeira Genao, publications manager; Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager; Evan Weinberger, Doris Joe, Jose Martinez, associates; Vania Nedialkova, Csaba Szilagyi, consultants; Miguel Morales, assistant.

Development and Outreach: Michele Alexander, development and outreach director; Michael Cooper, deputy development and outreach director (New York Committee); Rachel Weintraub, special events director; Rona Peligal, foundation relations director; Charles Urquhart, foundation relations associate director; Pam Bruns, California Committee (South) director; Emma Cherniavsky, California Committee (South) associate director; Clint Dalton, California Committee (North) director; Marie Janson, Europe director (London Committee); Veronica Matushaj, creative services and direct response manager; Michelle Leisure, special events coordinator; Adam Greenfield, office administrator (Los Angeles); Zoe Gottlieb, Thomas Yeh, associates; Raymond P. Happy (Community Counselling Services), Rafael Jiménez, Marie-Ange Kalenga, Corinne Sevily (EuroAmerican Communications), consultants; Matthew Lieber, Jasmina Repak, assistants.

Finance: Barbara Guglielmo, finance director; Anderson Allen, office manager (Washington, D.C.); Bessie Skoures, office administrator (Brussels); Rachael Noronha, office administrator (London); Mei Tang, accountant; Abdou Seye, bookkeeper; Assie Koroma, receptionist (Washington, D.C.); Yumersis Amancio, Lateefah Bell, assistants.

Human Resources: Maria Pignataro Nielsen, human resources director; Christian Peña, office manager (New York); Gil Colon, Yanet Encarnacion, Mary Majao, Arayna Thomas, receptionists (New York); Ernest Ulrich, consultant; Josephine Mescallado, assistant.

Information Technology: Walid Ayoub, information technology director; Amin Khair, network administrator/help desk; Arturo Cabrejo, office/help desk associate; Edward Valentini, consultant; Juan Acuña,, assistant.

International Justice: Richard Dicker, director; Helen Duffy, Indira Rosenthal, Brigitte Suhr, counsel.

Legal Office: Wilder Tayler, Legal and Policy Director; Dinah PoKempner, general counsel; Andrew Ayers, special assistant.

Program: Malcolm Smart, program director; Michael McClintock, deputy program director; Jeri Laber, senior advisor; Peter Bouckaert, emergencies researcher; Allyson Collins, senior researcher (United States) and Washington associate director; Lance Compa, researcher (United States); Jamie Fellner, associate counsel (United States); Arvind Ganesan, business and human rights director; Rachael Reilly, refugee policy director; Saman Zia-Zarifi, academic freedom director; Jacqueline Brandner, Sam David, Rebecca Hart, Jonathan Horowitz, Gail Yamauchi, associates; Marcia Allina, Manuel Couffignal, Julia Duchrow, Bruce Goldstein, Judith Greene, Tomas Jonsson, Mavis Matenge, Jena Matzen, Rachel Rosenbloom, Sinead Walsh, consultants.

International Film Festival: Bruni Burres, director; John Anderson, associate director; Andrea Holley, traveling festival manager; Fernanda Amorim Leventhal, assistant.

1999-2000 Fellowship Recipients: Judith Sunderland, Leonard H. Sandler Fellow; Carol Pier, Orville Schell Fellow; Erika George, Alan R. Finberg Fellow; Zama Coursen-Neff, Furman Fellow; Cynthia Totten,Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow.

Board of Directors

Jonathan F. Fanton, chair; Robert L. Bernstein, founding chair; Lisa Anderson, David M. Brown, William D. Carmichael, Dorothy Cullman, Gina Despres, Irene Diamond, Fiona Druckenmiller, Edith Everett, Michael E. Gellert, Vartan Gregorian, Alice H. Henkin, James F. Hoge, Jr., Stephen L. Kass, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Bruce J. Klatsky, Joanne Leedom Ackerman, Joshua Mailman, Dr. Yolanda T. Moses, Joel Motley, Samuel K. Murumba, Andrew Nathan, Jane Olson, Peter Osnos, Kathleen Peratis, Catherine Powell, Bruce Rabb, Sigrid Rausing, Orville Schell, Sid Sheinberg, Gary G. Sick, Malcolm B. Smith, Domna Stanton, John J. Studzinski, Maya Wiley, Roland Algrant (board member emeritus), Adrian W. DeWind, (board member emeritus).

Members of Board Committees and Sub-Committees: Helen Bernstein, special events; Martin Blumenthal, development; Lori Damrosch, policy; Henry Everett, investment; Mike Farrell, policy; Barbara Finberg, campaign steering committee; Robert Menschel, investment; Minna Schrag, policy; Florence Teicher, policy; Maureen White, nominating.

Staff

Peter Takirambudde, executive director; Suliman Ali Baldo, senior researcher; Corinne Dufka, researcher; Janet Fleischman, Washington director; Juliane Kippenberg, NGO liaison; Bronwen Manby, senior researcher; Binaifer Nowrojee, senior researcher; Sara Rakita, researcher;Jemera Rone, counsel; Tony Tate, researcher; Alex Vines, senior researcher; Zac Freeman, Ethel Higonnet, Tamar Satnet, associates; Molly Bingham, Alison DesForges, Steve Ellis, Ellen Vermeulen, consultants; Marti Flacks, assistant.

Advisory Committee

Vincent A. Mai, chair; Carole Artigiani, Robert L. Bernstein, William Carmichael, Michael Chege, Roberta Cohen, Carol Corillon, Cheryl "Imani" Countess, Alison L. DesForges, R. Harcourt Dodds, Stephen Ellmann, Aaron Etra, Gail M. Gerhart, Arthur C. Helton, Alice H. Henkin, Robert Joffe, Professor E. Kannyo, Thomas Karis, Muna Ndulo, Vincent A. Mai, Samuel Murumba, James C.N. Paul, Sidney S. Rosdeitcher, Dorothy Thomas, Dirk van Zyl Smit, R. Keith Walton, Claude E. Welch, Jr., Maureen White, Aristide Zolberg.

Staff

José Miguel Vivanco, executive director; Joanne Mariner, deputy director; Sebastian Brett, researcher; Robin Kirk, researcher; Joel Solomon, research director; Monisha Bajaj, Tzeitel Cruz-Donat, Elizabeth Hollenback, associates; Charles T. Call, James Louis Cavallaro, Anne Fuller, Jill Hedges, consultants; Barbara Graves, assistant.

Advisory Committee

Stephen L. Kass, chair; Marina Pinto Kaufman, vice-chair; David Nachman, vice-chair; Roland Algrant, Peter D. Bell, Marecelo Bronstein, Paul Chevigny, Roberto Cuéllar, Dorothy Cullman, Tom J. Farer, Alejandro Garro, Peter Hakim, Ronald G. Hellman, Bianca Jagger, Mark Kaplan, Margaret A. Lang, Kenneth Maxwell, Jocelyn McCalla, Bruce Rabb, Michael Shifter, George Soros, Julien Studley, Rose Styron, Javier Timerman, Horacio Verbitsky, José Zalaquett.

Staff

Sidney Jones, executive director; Joe Saunders, deputy director; Sara Colm, researcher; Jeannine Guthrie, NGO liaison; Mike Jendrzejczyk, Washington director; Smita Narula, senior researcher; Gary Risser, researcher; Mickey Spiegel, researcher; Jan van der Made, researcher; Adam Bassine, Liz Weiss, associates; Kate Beddall, Matt Easton, Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Sebastiaan der Kinderen, Nancy Leou, Hasan Mujtaba, consultants.

Advisory Committee

Maureen Aung-Thwin, Edward J. Baker, Harry Barnes, Robert L. Bernstein, Jagdish Bhagwati, Greg Carr, Jerome Cohen, Clarence Dias, Prof. Dolores A. Donovan, Frances Fitzgerald, Adrienne Germain, Prof. Merle Goldman, Prof. Deborah Greenberg, Jack Greenberg, Paul Hoffman, Sharon Hom, Rounaq Jahan, Virginia Leary, Prof. Daniel Lev, Perry Link, Bishop Paul Moore, Andy Nathan, Yuri Orlov, Kathleen Peratis, Victoria Riskin, Sheila Rothman, Barnett Rubin, Orville Schell, Prof. James Scott, Steve Shapiro, Dr. Eric Stover, and Maya Wiley.

Staff

Holly Cartner, executive director; Rachel Denber, deputy director; Fred Abrahams, senior researcher; Elizabeth Andersen, advocacy director; Cassandra Cavanaugh, senior researcher; Theresa Freese, researcher; Pamela Gomez, Caucasus office director; Julia Hall, researcher; Malcolm Hawkes, researcher; Bogdan Ivanisevic, researcher; Diederik Lohman, Moscow office director; André Lommen, researcher; Alexander Petrov, Moscow office deputy director; Acacia Shields, researcher; Marie Struthers, Tajikistan office director; Jonathan Sugden, researcher; Benjamin Ward, researcher; Alexander Frangos, coordinator; Liudmila Belova, Rachel Bien, Elizabeth Eagen, George Gogia, Alexandra Perina, Maria Pulzetti, Rebecca Stich, Natasha Zaretsky, associates; Johana Bjorken, Chuck Call, Erika Dailey, Max Marcus, Rebecca Morgan, Jim Ron, John Walker, consultants; Yulia Dultsina, Natalia Ermolaev, assistants.

Advisory Steering Committee

Peter Osnos, chair; Mort Abramowitz, Henri Barkey, Barbara Finberg, Frederica Friedman, Felice Gaer, Michael Gellert, Paul Goble, Alice Henkin, Stanley Hoffmann, Robert James, Walter Link, Kati Marton, Prema Mathai-Davis, Karl Meyer, Joel Motley, Herbert Okun, Jane Olson, Kathleen Peratis, Hannah Pakula, Barnett Rubin, Collette Shulman, Leon Sigal, Malcolm Smith, George Soros, Donald Sutherland, Adele Sweet, Ruti Teitel, Mark von Hagen, Mark Walton, William Zabel, Ambassador Warren Zimmermann.

Staff

Hanny Megally, executive director; Eric Goldstein, deputy director; Clarisa Bencomo, researcher; Hania Mufti, London office director; Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks, researcher; Virginia Sherry, associate director; Joe Stork, advocacy director; Tobie Barton, Erin Sawaya, associates; Gamal Eid, Alaa Kaoud, Sheila Carapico, consultants.

Advisory Committee

Lisa Anderson, co-chair; Gary Sick, co-Chair; Bruce Rabb, vice-chair; Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Shaul Bakhash, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Martin Blumenthal, Paul Chevigny, Helena Cobban, Edith Everett, Mansour Farhang, Christopher E. George, Rita E. Hauser, Ulrich Haynes, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Edy Kaufman, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Samir Khalaf, Judith Kipper, Ann M. Lesch, Stephen P. Marks, Rolando Matalon, Philip Mattar, Sheila Nemazee, Jane Schaller, Jean-Francois Seznec, Charles Shamas, Sanford Solender, Shibley Telhami, Andrew Whitley, Napoleon B. Williams, Jr., James J. Zogby.

Staff

Joost R. Hiltermann, executive director; Stephen D. Goose, program director; Loretta Bondí, advocacy coordinator; Mark Hiznay, researcher; Ernst Jan Hogendoorn, researcher; Lisa Misol, researcher; Alex Vines, senior researcher; Mary Wareham, senior advocate (landmines); Jasmine Juteau, Hannah Novak, Charli Wyatt, associates; William M. Arkin, Robin Bhatty, Tara Magner, Monica Schurtman, Cindy Shiner, Frank Smyth, Henry Thompson, consultants.

Advisory Committee

Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, chair; Nicole Ball, vice-chair; Vincent McGee, vice-chair; Amb. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Ken Anderson, David Brown, Ahmed H. Esa, Alastair Hay, Lao Mong Hay, Patricia Irvin, Michael Klare, Frederick J. Knecht, Edward Laurance, Graça Machel, Laurie Nathan, Janne E. Nolan, Josephine Odera, Julian P. Perry Robinson, Andrew J. Pierre, Eugénia Piza-Lopez, David Rieff, Kumar Rupesinghe, John Ryle, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Keith Walton, Jody Williams, and Thomas Winship.

Staff

Lois Whitman, executive director; Jo Becker, advocacy director; Michael Bochenek, researcher; Vikram Parekh, researcher;Yodon Thonden, senior researcher; Shalu Rozario, associate; Rosa Ehrenreich, Clovene Hanchard, Kathleen Hunt, Amy Marx, Glenn McGrory, Marco Simons, Robert Sloane, Mark Templeton, Lee Tucker, consultants.

Advisory Commitee

Jane Green Schaller, chair; Roland Algrant, vice-chair; Goldie Alfasi-Siffert, Michelle India Baird, Phyllis W. Beck, James Bell, Albina du Boisrouvray, Rachel Brett, Bernardine Dohrn, Fr. Robert Drinan, Barbara Finberg, Sanford J. Fox, Gail Furman, Lisa Hedley, Anita Howe-Waxman, Kathleen Hunt, Eugene Isenberg, Sheila B. Kamerman, Rhoda Karpatkin, Kela Leon, Alan Levine, Miriam Lyons, Hadassah Brooks Morgan, Prexy Nesbitt, Elena Nightingale, Martha J. Olson, Marta Santos Pais, Susan Rappaport, Jack Rendler, Robert G. Schwartz, Mark I. Soler, Lisa Sullivan, William Taggart, William L. Taylor, Geraldine Van Bueren, Peter Volmink, James D. Weill, and Derrick Wong.

Staff

Regan Ralph, executive director; LaShawn R. Jefferson, deputy director; Widney Brown, advocacy director; Kinsey Dinan, researcher; Chirumbidzo Mabuwa, researcher; Isis Nusair, researcher; Martina Vandenberg, researcher; Tejal Jesrani, Laura Rusu, Smita Varia, associates; Patti Gossman, consultant.

Advisory Committee

Kathleen Peratis, chair; Mahnaz Afkhami, Roland Algrant, Abudllahi An-Na'im, Helen Bernstein, Beverlee Bruce, Charlotte Bunch, Holly J. Burkhalter, Rhonda Copelon, Lisa Crooms, Gina Despres, Joan Dunlop, Claire Flom, Adrienne Germain, Zhu Hong, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Asma Khader, Gara LaMarche, Joyce Mends-Cole, Yolanda T. Moses, Marysa Navarro-Aranguren, Susan Petersen, Marina Pisklakova, Catherine Powell, Celina Romany, Margaret Schuler, and Domna Stanton.