David Anthony
David Anthony is Chief of Policy Advocacy at UNICEF Headquarters in New York. He leads a team focused on strengthening internal and external capacity in strategic policy advocacy and dialogue, coordinating UNICEF’s global advocacy priorities, and advocating on key and emerging global issues and trends and their implications for children, including climate and environment, urbanization, demographics and migration. His responsibilities also include generating organizational position papers on key and sensitive issues, building and compiling investment cases for children, and exploring innovative financing mechanism for development and humanitarian assistance. Prior to joining UNICEF in 2004, Mr Anthony worked for a decade at The Economist Group as the Director of Country Risk, and has also worked with the European Commission as a political and economic analyst. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of London.
Erin Beck
Erin Beck is an assistant professor of Political Science focusing on gender and international development and Latin American politics (with a specific focus on Guatemala). Her work has focused on the role of non-governmental associations (NGOs) in development, NGOs and microfinance in women's (dis)empowerment, and applying actor-oriented sociology, actor-network theory and feminist theories of power to the study of international development. Her book, The Social Construction of Development: the Everyday Practices and Experiences of Bootstrap and Holistic Development is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in Latin American Politics & Society and World Development. In addition, she is currently editing a special issue on Globalization, Gender and Development.
Ebenezer Durojaye
Ebenezer Durojaye is currently an Associate Professor of Law and Head/Senior Researcher of the Socioeconomic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests include issues relating to health and human rights, access to medicines as human rights, women’s access to health care, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the link between culture and women’s rights, human rights issues raised by HIV/AIDS, adolescents sexual and reproductive health and rights, corruption, constitutionalism and access to justice in Africa. He has published widely in these areas with some of his articles appearing in reputable international journals. More recently, he has been involved in research and advocacy work relating to the link between access to housing and poverty in South Africa
From 2012 to 2014, he provided technical support to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (Ms Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona). This included preparing background documents on poverty situations prior to country visits to some African countries, including Mozambique and Namibia. More importantly, he was involved in the drafting of the Guiding Principles on Extreme poverty and Human Rights, which was adopted by the Human Rights Council in September 2012.
Since 2010, he has served as one of the independent experts to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Committee on the Protection of the Rights of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and those at Risk, Vulnerable to and Affected by HIV. In this capacity, he has been involved in the drafting of a number of important resolutions on HIV and human rights in Africa. He was also involved in the drafting of the first General Comments of the Commission relating to article 14 (1) (d) and (e) of the Protocol to the African Charter n the Rights of Women, adopted by the African Commission in 2012.
He is co-editor of two important books in his area of research interests: Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health as Human Rights in Africa (eds. with Prof. Charles Ngwena (Pretoria University Law Press: Pretoria 2014) and Constitution Building in Africa (with Profs. J de Visser and N Steyler and Dr. D Powell eds) (Nomos Publishing: Broschiert 2015). He is also the editor of a recently published book Litigating the Right to Health in Africa: Challenges and Prospects (Ashgate: London 2015).
Nick Galasso
Nick Galasso joined Oxfam America in 2012, serving first as an American Council of Learned Societies public fellow and now as senior researcher. He leads Oxfam’s work on economic inequality and focuses on the intersection of elites, extreme wealth, and political capture. Galasso’s research gained attention in 2014 with the calculation, updated annually, that the richest 85 people possess the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population. As a leading voice on inequality, he is a regular media guest for programs on Fox Business News, Al Jazeera America, ABC, CBS, Voice of America, Open Media Boston, and NPR stations across the U.S. Prior to working for Oxfam, Galasso taught international relations and political economy at Chestnut Hill College and the University of Delaware. His research has been published in the journals Global Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis and he regularly writes for Oxfam’s Politics of Poverty blog. He earned a PhD in global governance and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Valerie Galley
Valerie Galley is of Ojibwa and Canadian ancestry and a member of the Nipissing First Nation. She maintains ties with her mother’s home and with a large extended family in northern Ontario. In 2005, she graduated from Trent University with her Masters of Arts degree in Canadian Studies and Native Studies.
Over the past two decades, she has worked as a policy analyst, researcher, and writer on Aboriginal issues, in policy and program implementation, locally, regionally, and nationally for First Nations entities, governments and post-secondary institutions. From 2005-2007, she served as the liaison between the University of Manitoba’s Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Valerie served in the Board for the National Centre for First Nations Governance for two years commencing in 2007. She has also researched and written presentations and policy papers for various national Aboriginal organizations on topics such as partnership approaches with the Government of Canada, the potential for integrating traditional indigenous healing practices into the western medical system and matrimonial real property rights. She has also served as the intergovernmental liaison and provided strategic policy and communications advice to the Chief for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and written two background reports about Aboriginal child welfare for the Saskatchewan Child Welfare Review Panel. More recently, she served on the Assembly of First Nations National Chief’s transition team and wrote their “Closing the Gap” document which was used in the 2015 federal election and leading into the upcoming federal budget.
Lina Holguin
Lina Holguin has been Policy Director for Oxfam-Quebec since 2007. She joined the organization in 2000. She currently leads policy work on economic inequality and its impact on youth. Ms. Holguin undertakes outreach to government officials and parliamentarians on humanitarian and development policy issues. She has also represented Oxfam at international events such as the UN Sustainable Development Summit, the G8 and G20, and the Summit of the Americas. She holds a Bachelors degree in Social Communications and Journalism from Universidad de la Sabana (Bogota - Colombia) and a Masters degree in Conflict and Peace studies from the European Peace University –Austria.
Brittany Lambert
Brittany Lambert is a Women’s Rights Policy Specialist at Oxfam Canada. She leads the organization’s research and advocacy work on economic and gender inequality, and co-authored Making Women Count, a new report by Oxfam Canada and the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives released in March 2016. Previously, she spent several years working at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy.
Yolanda Muñoz
Yolanda Muñoz is a wheelchair user and has been active in the disability movement since 1997. Her lived experience as a woman with a disability, together with her academic interests in Gender Studies, led her to participate in the Mexican movement to promote a human rights approach to disability. Among her contributions, she coordinated a national overview of the situation of women with disabilities in Mexico (2001-2003) for the National Institute for Women. She is currently based in Montreal and from January 2012 through December 2015 was Program Officer at the Disability Rights where she was responsible for grants oversight and technical support to DPOs in Haiti, Peru, Nicaragua, Mexico, Lebanon and Strategic Grants. She also lectures on Gender and Disability at McGill University since 2006. Yolanda also worked at grassroots level in Montreal, to empower women with disabilities and to promote equal opportunities in education for postsecondary students with disabilities in Quebec. Yolanda Muñoz is originally from Mexico and holds a PhD in Japanese Studies from El Colegio de México, specialized in Gender and the Ainu People of Northern Japan.
