Staff and Committees

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH STAFF

Executive

Kenneth Roth, executive director; Jennifer Gaboury, executive assistant.

Advocacy

Reed Brody, advocacy director; Lotte Leicht, Brussels office director; Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director; Joanna Weschler, U.N. representative; Loubna Freih, associate U.N. representative; John Emerson, web advocate; Leon Peijnenburg, E.U. advocacy coordinator; Jacqueline Brandner (through 6/01), Maura Dundon, Natalie Rainer, associates; Olivier Bercault, Alexia Lastchenko, consultants.

Communications

Carroll Bogert, communications director; Jean-Paul Marthoz, European press director; Minky Worden, electronic media director; Jagdish Parikh, on-line communications content coordinator; Urmi Shah, press and information officer (London); Vanessa Saenen, press coordinator (Brussels); Evan Weinberger, associate; Kelly Tisdale, consultant.

Development and Outreach

Michele Alexander, development and outreach director; Michael Cooper, deputy development and outreach director (New York Committee) (through 10/01); Rachel Weintraub, international special events director; Rona Peligal, foundation relations director; Randy Chamberlain, foundation relations associate director; Ruty Ambalo, major gifts and planned giving director; Pam Bruns, California Committee (South) director; Emma Cherniavsky, California Committee (South) associate director; Clint Dalton, California Committee (North) director; Marie Janson, European Council director; Veronica Matushaj, creative services manager/photo editor; Michelle Leisure, international special events manager; Vanessa Estella, Adam Greenfield (through 4/01), office administrators (Los Angeles); Zoe Gottlieb, Thomas Yeh, associates; Raymond P. Happy (Community Counselling Services), Jane Ivey, Rafael Jimenez, Marie-Ange Kalenga, Corinne Servily (EuroAmerican Communications), consultants.

Finance and Administration

Barbara Guglielmo, finance and administration director; Suzanna Davidson, controller; Anderson Allen, office manager (Washington, D.C.); Christian Peña, office manager (New York); Rachael Noronha, office administrator (London); Vanessa Saenen, office administrator (Brussels); Mei Tang, accountant; Abdou Seye, accounting assistant; Anna Angvall, Gil Colon, Sparkle Pierre, receptionists (New York); Assie Koroma, receptionist (Washington, D.C.).

Human Resources

Maria Pignataro Nielsen, human resources director; Arelis Baird, personnel manager; Anna Angvall, human resources assistant; Ernest Ulrich, consultant; Josephine Mescallado, assistant.

Information Technology

Walid Ayoub, information technology director; Amin Khair, network administrator; Bruce Robinson, office/help desk associate (Washington, D.C.); Edward Valentini, consultant.

International Film Festival

Bruni Burres, international film festival director; John Anderson, international film festival associate director; Andrea Holley, traveling festival manager.

International Justice

Richard Dicker, international justice director; Pascal Kambale, Indira Rosenthal, Brigitte Suhr, counsel; Leah Snyder, associate; Michael Cottier, consultant.

Legal Office

Wilder Tayler, legal and policy director; Dinah PoKempner, general counsel (on leave); James Ross, senior legal advisor; Andrew Ayers, special assistant/associate.

Operations

John T. Green, operations director; Allyson Collins, Washington office associate director; Rebecca Hart, special assistant/board liaison; Patrick Minges, publicatons director; Sobeira Genao, publications manager; Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager; Gil Colon, Jose Martinez, associates.

Program

Malcolm Smart, program director; Michael McClintock, deputy program director; Joanne Csete, HIV/AIDS and human rights director; Arvind Ganesan, business and human rights director; Rachael Reilly, refugee policy director; Saman Zia-Zarifi, academic freedom director; Peter Bouckaert, senior emergencies researcher; Allyson Collins, senior researcher (United States); Jamie Fellner, associate counsel (United States); Jacqueline Brandner (through 6/01), Sam David (through 7/01), Maura Dundon, Jonathan Horowitz, Alison Hughes, Natalie Rainer, associates; Marcia Allina, Cynthia Brown, Aimee Comrie, Gail Cooper, Erika George, Tasha Gill, Joel Harding, John Sifton, Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, consultants.

2000-2001 Fellowship Recipients

Darlene Miller, Michael Bloomberg Fellow; Michael Lerner, Leonard H. Sandler Fellow; Daniel Wilkinson, Orville Schell Fellow; Anna Wuerth, Alan R., Finberg Fellow; Jacqueline Asiimwe, Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow.

AFRICA DIVISION

Staff

Peter Takirambudde, executive director; Bronwen Manby, deputy director; Suliman Ali Baldo, senior researcher; Corinne Dufka, researcher; Janet Fleischman, Washington director; Juliane Kippenberg, NGO liaison; Binaifer Nowrojee, senior researcher; Sara Rakita, researcher; Jemera Rone, counsel; Tony Tate, researcher; Alex Vines, senior researcher; Maria Burnett, research assistant; Ethel Higonnet (through 6/01), Tamar Satnet (through 5/01), T. Jeffrey Scott, associates; Alison DesForges, Andrea Lari, Rena-Marie Strand, consultants; Ryan Hahn, Chiwoniso Kaitano, assistants.

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, Nadine Hack, Arthur C. Helton, Alice H. Henkin, Robert Joffe, Edward Kannyo, Thomas Karis, Wendy Keys, Dan Martin, Samuel K. Murumba, Muna Ndulo, James C. N. Paul, Dorothy Q. Thomas, Dirk van Zyl Smit, R. Keith Walton, Claude E. Welch, Jr., Maureen White, Aristide R. Zolberg.

AMERICAS DIVISION

Staff

José Miguel Vivanco, executive director; Joanne Mariner, deputy director; Sebastian Brett, researcher; Robin Kirk, researcher; Carol Pier, researcher; Jonathan Balcom, Marijke Conklin, Tzeitel Cruz-Donat (through 6/01), associates; Charles Call, Anne Fuller, Anne Manuel, consultants.

Advisory Committee

Stephen L. Kass, chair; Marina Pinto Kaufman, vice-chair; David Nachman, vice chair; Roland Algrant, Peter D. Bell, Marcelo Bronstein, Paul Chevigny, Roberto Cuellar, 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, and José Zalaquett.

ASIA DIVISION

Staff

Sidney Jones, executive director; Joe Saunders, deputy director; Sara Colm, researcher; Jeannine Guthrie, NGO liaison; Mike Jendrzejczyk, Washington director; Smita Narula, senior researcher; Vikram Parekh, researcher; Gary Risser, researcher; Jan van der Made, researcher; Adam Bassine (through 6/01), Liz Weiss, Wen-Hua Yang, associates; Tae-Ung Baik, Nicolas Becquelin, Cynthia Brown, Eva Galabru, Patricia Gossman, Sikeena Karmali, John Sifton, Mickey Spiegel, consultants.

Advisory Committee

Maureen Aung-Thwin, Edward J. Baker, Harry Barnes, Robert L. Bernstein, Jagdish Bhagwati, Greg Carr, Jerome Cohen, Clarence Dias, John Despres, Dolores A. Donovan, Frances Fitzgerald, Adrienne Germain, Merle Goldman, Paul Hoffman, Sharon Hom, Rounaq Jahan, Virginia Leary, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Daniel Lev, Perry Link, Bishop Paul Moore, Andrew Nathan, Yuri Orlov, Victoria Riskin, Sheila Rothman, Barnett R. Rubin, Orville Schell, James Scott, Frances Seymour, Steven R. Shapiro, Eric Stover, Kathleen Peratis, and Bruce Rabb.

EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA DIVISION

Staff

Holly Cartner (through 7/01), Elizabeth Andersen, executive directors; Rachel Denber, deputy director; Alexander Anderson, researcher; Matilda Bogner, researcher; Cassandra Cavanaugh, senior researcher; Julie Chadbourne, researcher; Julia Hall, senior researcher; Bogdan Ivanisevic, researcher; Diederik Lohman, Moscow office director; Alexander Petrov, Moscow office deputy director; Anna Neistat, researcher; Acacia Shields, researcher; Jonathan Sugden, researcher; Liudmila Belova, Rachel Bien, Elizabeth Eagen, Georgi Gogia, Ani Mason, Maria Pulzetti, associates; Johanna Bjorken, Casey Reckman, Marie Struthers, Ben Ward, consultants.

Advisory Steering Committee

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

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA DIVISION

Staff

Hanny Megally, executive director; Eric Goldstein, associate director; Hania Mufti, London office director; Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks, researcher; Virginia Sherry, associate director; Miranda Sissons, researcher; Joe Stork, advocacy director; James Darrow, Tobie Barton (through 7/01), Dalia Haj-Omar, Erin Sawaya (through 8/01), associates; Firass Abi-Younes, Juliette Abu'l 'Uyyun, Abdul Hussein Aziz, Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Chris Cobb, Gamal Eid, Nicholas Howen, Mahmud Qandil, Donatella Rovera, 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, Phillip Mattar, Sheila Nemazee, Jane Schaller, Jean-Francois Seznec, Charles Shamas, Sanford Solender, Shibley Telhami, Andrew Whitley, Napoleon B. Williams, Jr., James J. Zogby.

ARMS DIVISION

Staff

Joost R. Hiltermann, executive director; Stephen D. Goose, program director; Reuben Brigety II, researcher; Mark Hiznay, senior researcher; Lisa Misol, researcher; Alex Vines, senior researcher (on leave); Mary Wareham, senior advocate (Landmines); Hannah Novak, Charli Wyatt, associates; William Arkin, Robin Bhatty, Robin Fallas, Lora Lumpe, consultants.

Advisory Committee

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

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS DIVISION

Staff

Lois Whitman, executive director; Jo Becker, advocacy director; Clarisa Bencomo, researcher; Michael Bochenek, researcher; Zama Coursen-Neff, researcher; Shalu Rozario (through 6/01), Dana Sommers, associates.

Advisory Committee

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, Rosa Ehrenreich, Barbara Finberg, 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, Joy Moser, 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, Yodon Thonden, Geraldine Van Bueren, Peter Volmink, James D. Weill, and Derrick Wong.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS DIVISION

Staff

Regan Ralph (through 4/01), LaShawn Jefferson, executive directors; Farhat Bokhari, researcher; Widney Brown, advocacy director; Chirumbidzo Mabuwa, researcher; Isis Nusair, researcher; Jude Sunderland, researcher; Martina Vandenberg, researcher; Tejal Jesrani, Smita Varia, associates; Roya Boroumand, consultant.

Advisory Committee

Katherine Peratis, chair; Lisa Crooms, vice-chair; Mahnaz Afkhami, Roland Algrant, Helen Bernstein, Cynthia Brown, Beverlee Bruce, Charlotte Bunch, Holly Burkhalter, Gina H. Despres, Julie Dorf, Joan Dunlop, Claire Flom, Adrienne Germain, Zhu Hong, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Asma Khader, Gara LaMarche, Joyce Mends-Cole, Yolanda Moses, Marysa Navarro-Aranguren, Susan Osnos, Susan J. Petersen-Kennedy, Marina Pisklakova, Catherine Powell, Geeta Rao Gupta, Celina Romany, Margaret Schuler, and Domna C. Stanton.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH COUNCIL

California Committee South

Mike Farrell, co-chair; Vicki Riskin, co-chair; Zazi Pope, vice-chair.

International Board Representatives

Jane Olson and Sid Sheinberg. Elaine Attias, Rev. Ed Bacon, Joan Willens Beerman, Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Terree Bowers, Tammy Boyer, Joan Burns, Justin Connolly, Geoffrey Cowan, Nancy Cushing-Jones, Peggy Davis, Stephen Davis, Phyllis de Picciotto, Mary Estrin, Jonathan Feldman, Rob Force, Gregory H. Fox, Eric Garcetti, Danny Glover, Michael A. Gordon, Barbara Gortikov, Paul Hoffman, Paula Holt, Claudia Kahn, Barry Kemp, Maggie Kemp, Rev. James Lawson Jr., Shari Leinwand, Emily Levine, Roberto Lovato, Laurie McKinley, Kristin McKissick, Tom Parker, Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Alison Dundes Renteln, Tracy Rice, Carol Richards, David W. Rintels, Stan Roden, Lawrence D. Rose, Pippa Scott, Marc Seltzer, Stanley Sheinbaum, Donald Spoto, Bill Temko, Andrea Van de Kamp, Richard Verches, Nina Walton, Matt Ward, Patricia Williams, Diane O. Wittenberg, Stanley Wolpert, Noah Wyle, and Tracy Wyle.

California Committee North

Orville Schell, chair. Juliette Bleecker, Jeff Bleich, Rebecca Brackman, Jim Brosnahan, Stuart Davidson, Chiara DiGeronimo, Jack Edelman, Sherri Ferris, Roger Gordon, Elizabeth Rice Grossman, Rich Levine, Walter Link, Bryan and Nancy Kemnitzer, Nancy Parrish, Richard Power, Steve Silberstein, and Jim Swinerton.

New York Committee

Joel Motley, chair; Robert Joffe, chair emeritus; Domna Stanton, chair emeritus. Allen R. Adler, Henry Arnhold, Marilyn Berger, Richard Berger, Robert L. Bernstein, Martin Blumenthal, Dorothy Cullman, Adrian DeWind, Irene Diamond, Strachan Donnelley, Graham Duncan, Patrick Durkin, Jonathan Fanton, Barbara D. Finberg, Gail Furman, Jay Furman, David S. Hirsch, Joseph Hofheimer, Debbie Hymowitz, Gregg Hymowitz, Yves-Andre Istel, Robert James, Nancy Kamel, Steve Kass, Jesse J. Lehman, Doug Liman, Jonathan Lopatin, Vincent Mai, Vincent McGee, David Nachman, Peter Osnos, James H. Ottoway, Jr., Kathleen Peratis, Bruce Rabb, Barbara Paul Robinson, Nina Rosenwald, Alice Sandler, Jeffrey Scheuer, Bruce Slovin, Francesca Slovin, Malcolm Smith, Thomas Sobol, Michael Steinhardt, Donald J. Sutherland, Eva Timerman, Javier Timerman, and Arthur Zankel.

London Committee

John Studzinski, chair. Bomi Anise, Deborah Bono, Jenny Dearden, Phyllida Earle, Tony Elliott, Steven Glick, Loius Greig, John Howkins, Karina Litvack, Kate Bucknell Maguire, Laura Malkin, Robert Marcus, Patricia Mirrlees, Gerhard Plasonig, Wiet Pot, Chris Powell, Stuart Proffitt, Sigrid Rausing, Hester van Roijen, Barbara Skene, Alice Smith, John Stewart, and Ingrid Wassenaar.

Members-At-Large

Gregory C. Carr, Gina Despres, Arnold Hiatt, John Kaneb, Robin Ray, and Stuart Ray.