Center for Economic and Social Rights : Staff

Staff

Ignacio Saiz, Executive Director
isaiz@cesr.org

Ignacio Saiz was appointed executive director in 2009, having served as the Center's research director since 2006. Prior to this, he was director of policy at the international secretariat of Amnesty International, where his responsibilities included overseeing the development of Amnesty's research, campaigning and advocacy on economic, social and cultural rights. Previous roles at Amnesty International have included deputy director of the Americas Program, policy coordinator and Central America researcher. He has also worked as a freelance human rights consultant for several other organizations in areas relating to sexuality and human rights, the prevention of torture and post-conflict accountability. Ignacio holds an LLM in international human rights law with distinction from the University of Essex and a BA degree in French, Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Cambridge.

Program

Gaby Oré Aguilar, Director of Program
gore@cesr.org

Gaby Oré Aguilar is director of program at CESR. Before joining CESR she worked as a program strategy consultant for international organizations and philanthropies in Europe. Previously, she worked as a grantmaker with the Ford Foundation in Santiago, Chile; she established and coordinated the Latin America Program of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights; and worked as an attorney and human rights educator at the Instituto de Defensa Legal based in Lima. She is an invited lecturer at the EIUC Master on Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice and other universities. As an independent researcher she has developed methodological guidelines for conducting case study analysis on the relevance of human rights for local communities in the context of globalization (University of Antwerp) and has conducted research on economic and social rights and legal remedies for crimes perpetrated against women in conflict situations. She holds an LLM from Columbia University Law School. She earned a JD and a BA in Political Science from the University of San Marcos, Lima and a Diploma in Gender Studies from the Catholic University, Lima.

Sally-Anne Way, Research Director
saway@cesr.org

Sally-Anne Way joined the CESR in October 2007. Before joining the Center, she worked as advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and as research associate at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies of the University of Geneva, where she taught courses on economic, social and cultural rights and on human rights and development. She has also served as a consultant to various UN agencies, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the International Organization for Migration. She has also held posts at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex and at the Bank of England, the UK central bank. She holds degrees from the University of Durham and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She speaks English, French and Spanish.

Maria José Eva, Researcher
mariajoseeva@cesr.org

Maria Jose Eva is a Chilean lawyer who worked as a researcher at the Human Rights Center of the University of Chile. She also taught international human rights law at the University of Chile. She recently completed an MPA in Public and Economic Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Maria Jose started working with CESR in September 2008.

Victoria Wisniewski Otero, Researcher
v.wisniewski@cesr.org

Victoria Wisniewski Otero joined CESR in 2010. Born in Spain and raised in the United States, she has an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and a Masters in International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEID) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining CESR, she worked as an urban studies researcher for Arab cities at the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UN HABITAT) Office in Kuwait.

Communications

Kevin Donegan, Director of Communications
kdonegan@cesr.org

Kevin Donegan is director of communications at CESR. Prior to joining CESR in February 2008, he was director of communications at the Breast Cancer Fund, a U.S. environmental health organization, and also a national communications strategist for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Previously, he was principal communications associate responsible for media strategy and outreach for Children Now, a U.S. child policy and advocacy organization. Before that, he was a news producer for Los Angeles National Public Radio station KCRW-FM and also wrote feature stories and opinion columns for, among others, the Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland), Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has a BA in philosophy and English literature from University College, Dublin, Ireland.

Finance and Administration

Annie Fairchild, Financial Administrator
afairchild@cesr.org

Annie Fairchild is a native of Hong Kong. She received her MA & BS from the State University of New York. After devoting many years to dance, she became an administrator at the Juilliard School of Music. She also has experience in the business sector as an office manager and co-owned an importing business before joining the staff of CESR in June 2004.

Constanza Niell, Office Manager, Madrid
cniell@cesr.org

Constanza Niell was born in Uruguay and raised in Argentina. She joined CESR in October 2007. She studied psychology at the University of California at San Diego while working in human resources and social services. She has lived in Spain since 2005 where she initially worked as an executive assistant and later co-owned an entertainment and cultural events production company.