Members of the Board

Constance Beavon​
Friends of Protimos

Constance is a musician based in New York. She has performed with the New York City Opera, Grand Theatre du Geneve and Chicago Opera Theatre amongst many others. When not engaged in music, she conducts interviews and produces films about international activism, religion, art and poetry.

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Dean Bialek​
Friends of Protimos

Dean is currently the Head of Policy and International Strategy at CWP Global. He has previously served as an Independent Diplomat’s Director for UN, Climate Change and Natural Resources, worked at WTO and has over five years’ experience in the Australian Foreign Service.

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​Dinah Crystal OBE
Protimos Educational Trust 

Dinah is a qualified solicitor, she chairs the North West Legal Support Trust and has been a LawWorks Trustee since 2002. She founded Manchester Free Legal Help and Legal Advice Centres. Dinah is currently a Liberty Council member and external examiner for BPP. 

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Fiona Darroch
Founder / Director of Law / Protimos Africa Trust

Fiona founded Protimos in 2001, she leads on the strategy and management of local and international legal initiatives. Fiona was called to the Bar, specializing in environmental law after a career as an opera singer and is a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and a member of Chambers at Normanton Chambers.

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​The Honourable Mrs. Justice Dobbs DBE
​Advisory Board

​The Honourable Mrs. Justice Dobbs is a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales in the Queen’s Bench Division. She is chairman of the Magisterial Committee of the Judicial Studies board and a Senior Liaison Judge for Diversity.

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​Professor Graham Dutfield
Advisory Board

​Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds, School of Law and has advised several governments, international organisations, United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organisations.

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​John Githongo
​Advisory Board

John is a former Kenyan journalist who investigated bribery and fraud in his home country. He founded and served as Executive Director of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International. He is the CEO of Inuka (“get up” in Swahili) Trust which works to affirm individuals and transform despair into hope.

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​Rupert Grey
Advisory Board

Rupert is an eminent lawyer who has served as a barrister and now as a consultant at Swan Turton and specializes in libel, intellectual property and commercial litigation. He is one of the UK’s leading experts in the field of defamation and privacy law and has specialist knowledge of the complex legal issues with which professional photographers have to contend.

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​John Harker
​Advisory Board

John served as the Director of the UN agency which deals with the World of Work. In 1993, he served as Special Advisor in President Nelson Mandela’s Office. He served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Cape Breton University between 2003 and 2013.

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Anastasia Kantzelis
Protimos Educational Trust

Anastasia is an Australian qualified lawyer, based in London, with specialist knowledge of international environmental law treaty regimes, multilateral treaty negotiations, international dispute resolution processes and air quality regulation in the EU and UK. She is an Associate Member of 6 Pump Court Chambers and an Expert Consultant to Campaign Collective.

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Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, QC, FRSA, HonFRSE
Advisory Board

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is one of Britain’s most distinguished lawyers. She is a champion of civil liberties, promotes human rights and has published books on how the justice system is failing women. She is a Labour peer in the House of Lords and is currently the Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute.

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​Martin Lyons
Protimos Foundation

Martin is a qualified accountant and highly experienced business analyst with a focus on systems change across banking and financial services. He has worked at The Royal Bank of Scotland, TSB and Lloyds Banking Group. He is an experienced charity trustee and performs the role of Treasurer on the Protimos Foundation Board.​

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​Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG, PC
​Advisory Board

Lord Malloch-Brown is a former Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government with responsibility for Africa, Asia and the United Nations. He also held the position of United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and became a life-peer on 9 July 2007.

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​Todani Manala-Moyo
Protimos Foundation / Protimos Africa Trust

Todani is the Chairman and CEO of Lutendo Holdings, Valotone and Yokoyo Investments (PTY) Ltd alongside his role as a Senior Partner at Fitzrovian Capital Africa. He is a professional accountant, with expertise in project and development finance, corporate governance and enterprise risk management.

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​Selloane Mokuku
​Protimos Africa Trust

Selloane is an actor, writer, poet, director, facilitator, researcher and consultant. She is Co-Director and Founder of Liatla Productions (Pty) Ltd and has facilitated university-level learning, worked as an independent consultant for government and chaired the task force that produced the 2005 Lesotho National Cultural Policy.

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​Murali Polamarasetty
Protimos Foundation

Murali is an entrepreneur, he has set up and scaled numerous start-ups into successful enterprises. He is the Co-Founder of Acer Engineers Pvt Ltd, a Founding Member and Treasurer of Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE). He is also currently the CEO of Smile Microfinance Ltd. 

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Jeremy Ridl
Protimos Africa Trust

Jeremy is an experienced South Africa based practising Attorney and Environmental Law Specialist. He established the first specialist environmental law practice in Southern Africa and taught at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the co-editor of the South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.

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​Mark Rose
Advisory Board

Mark is a trained zoologist who spent the early part of his career as a wildlife officer and field biologist. He has been establishing and managing conservation NGOs and for the last 20 years, as CEO of Fauna & Flora International, he has been at the forefront of international biodiversity conservation management.

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​Dr. Liz Alden Wily
Advisory Board

Dr Wily is an independent political economist specialising in agrarian land tenure. She combines roles as practitioner, policy adviser and researcher. She has contributed significantly to tenure and/or natural resource governance reforms in sixteen African and Asian states.

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Members of Staff

Isobel Butler
Director 

Isobel is responsible for the global strategic growth of the organisation, she works with the Founder, the international boards and Protimos’ various international hubs, to develop and implement the organisation’s strategy. She has worked in the international development sector, including within microfinance, for over 10 years.

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Cidalia Lewis-Lettington
Legal Associate 

Cidalia is a Legal Associate working across Protimos’ projects. She is a final year Common Law LLB with French Language student at the University of Glasgow and has just completed a year of study at SciencesPo Paris. Her particular interest and research lies in the development of African legal infrastructure and realising pan-African potential.

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Michael Phillips
Design / Communications 

Michael is Founder/Director of Archetype Design, a consultancy based in Oxford with over 40 years’ experience working locally, nationally and internationally for clients who are committed to making a positive difference in the world.

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Sneha Shrestha​
Legal Assistant 

Sneha has coordinated the legal work across all Protimos’ programmes. She has been called to the Bar of England and Wales and holds a first class honours from the University of Essex as well as a distinction in her master’s degree in transnational law from King’s College London. Her experience is broad and includes extensive legal research and fieldwork in human rights

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Katie Wilson 
​Financial Controller 

Katie is a highly experiences finance professional and oversees Protimos’ financial management, including production of annual accounts. She holds an economics degree from the University of Bristol and previously worked at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC)