Our team is the heart and soul of GDW and includes a committed staff of global activists, academics, practitioners, and journalists from a diverse range of backgrounds. Our dedicated team works in active and coordinated ways on fact finding, field research and investigation, reporting, connecting and driving solid and concerted advocacy.
Administration
- Shaun Grech Executive Director
- Jörg Weber, Deputy Director (Advocacy)
- Karen Soldatic, Head of Research
- Neil Falzon, Human Rights Legal Advisor
- Liz Ayling, Website Admin
Advisory Committee
- Diane Kingston
- Anita Ghai
- Neema Namadamu
- Mary Wickenden
- Olivier Nyirubugara, Community Journalism Advisor
- Erin Outram & Shaun Webster, Accessibility Advisors
Our Correspondents & Expert Researchers
- Carolina Ferrante (Argentina, Chile)
- Djenana Jalovcic (Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina & Canada)
- Evan Cowo (Belize)
- Shirley Keoagile (Botswana)
- Alexis Havyarimana (Burundi)
- Nsabayezu Eugene (Burundi)
- Thy Nhip (Cambodia)
- Rojanet Ty (Cambodia)
- Ndi Veronica Ngum (Cameroon)
- Aimee Louw (Canada)
- Solangel Garcia (Colombia)
- Johana Lara (Colombia)
- Olmedo Zambrano (Ecuador & Latin America)
- Yana Zayed (Egypt & Eastern Mediterranean)
- Tigabu Gebremedhin (Ethiopia)
- Ebrima Dibbasey (Gambia)
- Hannah Awadzi, Senior Journalist (Ghana News Agency), Ghana
- Silvia Quan (Guatemala)
- Leon Walcott (Guyana)
- Sunil Deepak (India)
- Yustitia Arief (Indonesia)
- Shaunette Grant (Jamaica)
- Myroslava Tataryn (Jordan)
- Helen Mudora Obande (Kenya)
- Nerea Thigo (Kenya)
- Sandra Katz (Latin America & Caribbean)
- Nkhasi Sefuthi (Lesotho)
- Luc Pariot (Madagascar)
- Margaret Wazakili (Malawi)
- Bonface Massah (Malawi)
- Oliver Scicluna (Malta)
- Prakash Rajwagle (Nepal)
- Soumana Zano (Niger)
- Abid Lashari (Pakistan)
- Rima Canawati (Palestine & Middle East)
- Madezha Cépeda Bazán (Peru)
- Paul Edward Muego (Philippines)
- Barney McGlade (Philippines)
- Mohamed A Farah (Somalia)
- Sarah Rule (South Africa)
- Kalaiventhan Rajadurai (Sri Lanka)
- Qusai Al Rifai (Syria, Netherlands)
- Nemes Temba (Tanzania)
- Michael Miiro (Uganda)
- Sandra Beatriz Noe Abelenda (Uruguay)
- Manuel Aramayo (Venezuela)
- Bruce Chooma (Zambia)
- Wamundila Waliuya (Zambia)
- Kudzai Shava (Zimbabwe)