Staff and Board
Staff
Ignacio Saiz, Acting Executive Director
isaiz@cesr.org
Ignacio Saiz is Acting Executive Director of CESR. Prior to joining CESR, 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 Bachelor of Arts degree in French, Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Cambridge.
Program
Sally-Anne Way, Senior Researcher
saway@cesr.org
Sally-Anne Way joined the CESR as Senior Researcher in October 2007. Before joining the Centre, 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.
Jeremy Perelman, Researcher
jperelman@cesr.org
Jeremy Perelman joined CESR as a researcher in July 2006. A member of the Paris bar, he practiced in a corporate law firm before engaging in a variety of human rights, access to justice and development projects in Costa Rica, South Africa and Ghana. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School, focusing his research on socio-economic rights advocacy and development in sub-Saharan Africa. He has been working since 2002 on a right to health campaign in Ghana, a joint project between Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford and a local human rights NGO. Jeremy holds law and international affairs degrees from Paris-1 Sorbonne, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Stanford Law School.
Shira Stanton, Researcher
sstanton@cesr.org
Shira Stanton joined CESR in January 2008. Originally from the United States, she has a BA from the University of California, San Diego and an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Manchester in the UK. Before joining CESR, she was working in Berlin. She speaks English, Hebrew, German and Spanish.
Communications
Kevin Donegan, Director of Communications
kdonegan@cesr.org
Kevin Donegan is Director of Communications at CESR. Prior to joining CESR, 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 M.A. & B.S. 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 joined CESR in October, 2007. She was born in Uruguay and raised in Argentina. She has traveled around the world starting at the age of 17 when she went to Norway as an exchange student. She worked as an American Airlines flight attendant for eight years. In 1999 she moved to California to study Psychology at the University of California at San Diego, while gaining experience in human resources and social services with Latino women. She has lived in Spain since 2005 where she initially worked as an Executive Assistant and later on co-owned an entertainment and cultural event production company.
CESR Board of Directors
Victor Abramovich (Argentina)
Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Victor Abramovich is a leading expert in the field of Economic and Social Rights in Latin America. He is Commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) and newly-appointed Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women. He is the former Executive Director of CELS, the main human rights organization in Argentina (2001 to 2005). He has also served as Board member of CEJIL and of Ecuador's Center for Economic and Social Rights (CDES). Furthermore, he has worked as consultant for the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) as well as the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), contributing to a number of publications on economic and social rights. Abramovich received his LLM from American University, where he now participates as visiting professor.
Philip Alston (Australia)
Chairperson
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Philip Alston served as the Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1991-1998). He currently teaches at the New York University Law School. Alston has published extensively on economic, social, and cultural rights. He has an LL.B. (Hons.), B. Comm., and LL.M. from the University of Melbourne; LL.M. and J.S.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Linda Cassano (United States)
Treasurer
Chief Compliance Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Commonwealth Australia Securities LLC
Linda Cassano is a securities regulatory lawyer with more than twenty years of experience in financial services. She is Chief Compliance Officer at commonwealth Bank of Australia and Commonwealth Australia Securities LLC. She has worked as a consultant, compliance expert and general counsel and has held numerous leadership positions within financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Securities, Inc., Commerzbank Capital Markets and Abbey National Securities Inc. and Abbey National Treasury Services, U.S. Prior to this, she spent 6 years in government service working with United States Securities & Exchange Commission and was seconded in 1983 to the U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. She has an LLM from New York University, a JD from New York Law School, and a BA from Manhattanville College in Political Science, and International Studies.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Japan)
Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, New York
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School in New York. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From 1995 to 2004, she was director of UNDP's Human Development Reports. She has written and spoken widely on human rights as an essential aspect of development. She is founding editor of the Journal of Human Development. Prior to that, she held a number of positions in UNDP and the World Bank with management and technical responsibilities. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has a BA from the University of Cambridge, and Master's degrees from the University of Sussex and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a Japanese national and speaks Japanese, English and French.
Richard Goldstone (South Africa)
Richard J Goldstone was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2003). He also served as the first Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (1994-1996). He is presently the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association and a member of the committee, chaired by Paul A Volcker, appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to investigate allegations regarding the Iraq Oil for Food Program. In addition to being on the Board of CESR, Judge Goldstone is on the Boards of Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights and the Institute for Justice in Transition.
Chris Jochnick (United States)
Director, Private Sector Engagement, Oxfam America
Chris Jochnick is the Director of Private Sector Engagement for the international NGO, Oxfam America and teaches a seminar on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has worked for many years in the field of human rights and is the co-founder and a director of the Ecuador-based, Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales (CDES) and the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He also spent five years in the private sector as an attorney for the Wall Street law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He was the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal and a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellow. He has authored many publications on human rights and development.
Jose Maria Maravall (Spain)
Academic Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute
Jose Maria Maravall was the Spanish Minster of Education and Science between 1982 and 1988 and is currently a member of the Research Council of the European University Institute, Florence. He is the Academic Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Maravall holds doctorates from the universities of Madrid and Oxford as well as a D.Litt (Hons.) from the University of Warwick.
Alicia Ely Yamin (United States)
Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health & Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Alicia Ely Yamin is the Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health & Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health and is the former Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights. She has conducted documentation and advocacy with human rights NGOs in Latin America and the United States for over 15 years and has published several books and dozens of articles on health and human rights in both English and Spanish. In the United States, Yamin is on the Boards of the Center for Economic and Social Rights and Mental Disability Rights International, as well as on the advisory board of the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health. In Peru, she is on the advisory boards of the Program on Human Rights and Health of the Asociación pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) and the Health and Human Rights Program at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, as well as MINGAPeru. She is on the editorial review boards of the Human Rights Quarterly (US) and the Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos (Mexico). Yamin received her JD from Harvard Law School (1991) and her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health (1996).
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