Members of the Board
Protimos Foundation
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Fiona DarrochThe Director of Law and Founder of Protimos, Fiona was called to the Bar after a successful career as a singer. She currently divides her professional life between Protimos and her practice as a Barrister, where she specialises in environmental law.
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Maria Ester Vergara FernandezEster is a dedicated finance professional with robust experience fostering organisational growth across numerous sectors in Spain and the UK. She is an Executive Assistant in the Finance and Consular Department of the Embassy of Costa Rica. Prior to this role she worked within the Finance Department at ALLUMER London, and with the Trade and Investment Department of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic.
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Murali PolamarasettyMurali is an entrepreneur and has spent over 20 years in developing operational excellence in organisations, exploring new markets and creating impact business models for the bottom-of-the-pyramid markets. He has set up and scaled numerous start-ups in to successful social enterprises. He is an Advisor for Affordable Housing Technical Assistance Center (AFHTAC), a unit of Habitat for Humanity International, New Delhi, India. Murali is the Co-Founder, Director and Mentor of Acer Engineers Pvt Ltd, who’s flagship product, ‘Bibo Water’ is the 7th largest packaged drinking water brand in India and retains ownership of 20% of the company. HE is also an Independent Director of the Board of Mentor, S.M.I.L.E Microfinance Ltd, a Founding Member and Treasurer of Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE), and Secretary at Partners in Prosperity (PnP).
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Todani Manala-MoyoTodani Manala-Moyo is the Chairman and CEO of Lutendo Holdings, Valotone and Yokoyo Investments (Pty) Ltd. He is a professional accountant, with experience in project and development finance as an Investment Banker in the United States of America. Prior to becoming the CEO, Todani served as Managing Director and Chief Executive of Msinsi Resorts and Game Reserves. He sits on a number of reputable boards in South Africa, bringing expertise in corporate governance and enterprise risk management. A trustee and honorary Treasurer of the Maqhubu Ntombela, is also a trustee and the current Deputy Chairperson of the Wilderness Foundation intermittently chairing the Finance Committee. Todani Moyo also sat on the board of Road Accident Fund (RAF).
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Protimos Africa Trust
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Selloane MokukuSelloane is an actor, writer, poet, director, facilitator, researcher and consultant. She is co-director and founder of Liatla Productions (Pty) Ltd; an independent productions company that uses mass media for education, and has been actively involved in an International theatre initiative; Project Phakama. She is a ShakeXperience facilitator, Programmes and Curriculum Developer for Nobulali productions She has facilitated learning at the university level, worked as an independent consultant for government, local, regional and International organizations and chaired the task force that produced the 2005 Lesotho National Cultural Policy. Her passion and expertise is in children, gender, governance and HIV/Aids.
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Vuyelwa KuuyaVuyelwa has a legal academic background having studied at McGill University, Canada, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, University College London and the University of Cape Town. She is currently the Global Programme Manager and Specialist for the Human Rights and the Sustainable Development, Voices of Future Generation Programme of Children’s Rights and Sustainable Development. Within this role she reports to the International Commission chaired by His Excellency Judge C.G. Weeramantry, former Deputy President of the International Court of Justice, on the role of businesses in attaining the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and socio-economic rights. Prior to this Vuyelwa was Managing Consultant, Zamia Mining Policy Development with the Cabinet Office, Republic of Zambia.
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Todani Manala-Moyo
See above
Fiona Darroch
See above
Protimos Educational Trust
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Dinah Crystal OBEDinah received her OBE for contributions to Pro Bono in the North West of England in 2008. She is a qualified solicitor, while practicing (1974 – 1990) she specialized in family law and domestic violence. She chairs the North West Legal Support Trust, has been a LawWorks Trustee since 2002 and is on the Advisory Board of Manchester PSU and the Manchester CCJ/LIPS committee. Dinah is currently the Director the Legal Advice Centre, a Centre she established in 2000. She is also the Academic Lead at Pathways to Law, sponsored by the Sutton Trust and Social Responsibility Champion. She oversees the Streetlaw Programme and is a member of Liberty Council.
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Remedzayi Darlington MutizeDarlington is a highly skilled business and economics specialist, with a focus on developmental economics and sustainability. He has developed a wide network of business relationships in both public and private sectors across the UK and Africa. He has worked in senior roles for medical, energy and most recently as a Senior Investment Executive for a Mobile Financial Services company. He is actively involved in community activities promoting SMEs. Together with a range of partners, he is actively engaged with the Royal Commonwealth Society on the development of a purpose built online platform to enhance bilateral trade within member states. He speak three languages; English, Shona and Zulu.
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Todani Manala-Moyo
See above
Maria Ester Vergara Fernandez
See above
Friends of Protimos
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Dean BialekDean Bialek is Independent Diplomat's Director for UN, Climate Change and Natural Resources. Dean has over five years' experience in the Australian Foreign Service and as Legal Adviser at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, he was a key member of the team negotiating maritime boundary and revenue-sharing arrangements for offshore oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea. Dean previously worked at the World Trade Organization, as a lecturer at the Melbourne University Law School, as a consultant to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and as an intern at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) in London. Dean has a PhD (International law) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws (Environmental Law) from University of London.
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Constance BeavonConstance is musician, a mezzo soprano based in New York. She has performed with New York City Opera, Grand Theatre du Geneve , Chicago Opera Theater, and many others. She has also performed the oratorio repertoire from Handel's Messiah to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and throughout the United States, and created more than a dozen new orchestral sacred works with Incontri di Musica Sacra e Contmporanea in performances throughout Italy and with the Harare Symphony in Zimbabwe, Africa. She has recorded and premiered more than 100 works, many written especially for her. Constance is an honors graduate of Pomona College, Columbia University and New York University and holds prizes from international competitions in Montreal and Carnegie Hall. She lives in New York City and when not engaged in music, she conducts interviews and produces films about international activism, religion, art, and poetry.
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Advisory Board
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Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, QC, FRSA, HonFRSEBaroness Helena Kennedy QC is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights. She also undertakes judicial review, public inquiries and sex discrimination work. She has acted in many prominent cases including the Brighton Bombing Trial, Guildford Four Appeal, the bombing of the Israeli Embassy, the abduction of Baby Abbie Humphries and a number of key domestic violence and terrorism cases. In 1997, she was elevated to the House of Lords where she is a Labour peer. She has published two books on how the justice system is failing women, and has written and broadcasted on many issues over the years. Currently, she has taken on the role of Director to the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute. She directs the Institute’s work upholding the rule of law and human rights globally.
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Dr. Liz Alden WilyDr Wily is a 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 Africa and Asian states. Presently (2016), she is helping steer a global call to action to double the area of customarily-held land legally acknowledged as owned; is a core team member of LandMark; and technically facilitates a Community Land Rights Transparency Index under development by a consortium of NGOs in Africa. Liz lives in Kenya and Ireland.
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John GithongoJohn Githongo is a former Kenyan journalist who investigated bribery and fraud in his home country and later, under the presidency of Mwai Kibaki, took on an official governmental position to fight corruption. Mr. Githongo is CEO of the new Kenyan organisation, Inuka (“get up” in Swahili) Trust. Inuka works to affirm individuals and transform despair into hope – especially for the youth – and others who feel that they have been left behind.
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Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG, PCLord 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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Mark RoseMark Rose is a trained zoologist, who spent the early part of his career as a wildlife officer and field biologist. He then went on to manage sustainable wildlife-based businesses, including crocodile ranching in Papua New Guinea. Since then 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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Professor Graham DutfieldGraham 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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Rupert GreyRupert Grey is a partner with Swan Turton and specializes in libel, intellectual property and commercial litigation. He is ranked by independent legal directories Chambers and The Legal 500 as one of the UK’s leading experts in the field of defamation and privacy law.
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The Honourable Mrs. Justice Dobbs DBEThe 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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John HarkerJohn Harker, a former union official, served for many years as the Director in Canada of the UN agency which deals with the World of Work, including Health and Safety in Mining. In 1990 John was appointed to head the Expert Group undertaking the study of South Africa’s post-Apartheid needs for improvement in education and training. In 1993 he served as Special Advisor in President Nelson Mandela’s Office in South Africa, on the creation of South Africa’s National Development Agency. Following this John was appointed to head a Fact Finding and Assessment Mission focusing on whether the activities of a Canadian energy company were falling short of the canons of Corporate Social Responsibility and exacerbating the civil war in Sudan. He became President and Vice Chancellor of Cape Breton University in August 2003 and served in this position until March 2013. He chaired the 2006-07 Independent Social Review created to evaluate the impacts of the world’s largest coal mining operation, Cerrejon, in La Guajira, Colombia. He serves as a facilitator for talks between the communities and the company. Under his guidance, the parties reached an Agreement to settle legacy issues in December 2008. In April, 2017, he was appointed to Chair the Independent Advisory Panel established to keep under review the development of a gold mine in Armenia. In May 2018 he publicly presented the Panel’s first Annual Report.
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