NARRATIVE REPORT 2009 - The ICHRP

International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009
Staff: short biographies and contact information
Appendix IV(b)
Executive Director
Mr Robert Archer archer@ichrp.org Phone: +41 (0) 22 775 33 08
Before he became the Executive Director of the International Council in 1997, Robert Archer was Senior Policy
Adviser for Christian Aid (London), where he set up the Policy Programme and worked on aid policy, governance
and development issues in sub-Saharan Africa (Burundi, Kenya, Lesotho, Somalia, Sudan, DRC). Between 1981 and
1991, at the Catholic Institute for International Relations (London) he set up a policy and advocacy programme on
East and South East Asia (on political reform, human rights and labour issues in the Philippines, East Timor, Hong
Kong and South Korea). He worked for two years for the publisher and bookshop l’Harmattan in Paris, and also
taught English for two years at the University of Madagascar.
Research Director
Mr Vijay Kumar Nagaraj nagaraj@ichrp.org Phone: +41 (0) 22 775 33 02
Prior to joining the Council Vijay Nagaraj was an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in
Mumbai, India. Concurrently he taught and was a consultant at the National Law School of India University. Between
2000 and 2003, he re-established Amnesty International’s section in India, as its Director. Vijay has also been a
consultant to the World Commission on Dams 1999-2000 and worked with the Board of Oxfam, India 1998-1999.
In 1994-1995 and 1996-1998 he worked with Mazdoor Kisan Shakthi Sangathan (MKSS), a social movement
organisation working with the rural poor in Rajasthan.
Research Director
Ms Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Sepúlveda@ichrp.org Phone: +41 (0) 22 775 33 07
Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, a Chilean lawyer, is concurrently the UN Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty
and human rights. Before joining the ICHRP, she was Co-Director of the Department of International Law and
Human Rights of the United Nations-affiliated University for Peace in Costa Rica. She has also worked as a
researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights, consultant to the Department of International Protection of UNHCR, and for the Norwegian Refugee Council
in Colombia. She holds a Ph.D in international law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and an LL.M in human
rights law from University of Essex, UK.
Accountant
Ms Sabrina Lambat lambat@ichrp.org Phone: +41 (0) 22 775 33 09
Sabrina Lambat's has been the ICHRP’s Accountant since 2008. Her previous work experience was mainly
administrative and customer-oriented in governmental, telecommunications, brokerage and insurance
organisations, as well as industrial, construction and mining companies. She has a Masters degree in International
Studies from the IUHEI, University of Geneva, and a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Development Studies
from the IUED, University of Geneva.
Outreach and Publications Co-ordinator
Ms Fairouz El Tom eltom@ichrp.org Phone: +41 (0) 22 775 33 05
Before joining the Council Fairouz El Tom was an Education Observation Officer with UNICEF in Iraq. Prior to that,
she was a Consultant at the Hague Appeal for Peace in New York. Fairouz also worked as Programme Assistant at
Family Care International, New York. She has a Master's degree in international educational development from
Columbia University, New York.
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