Joy Andrew

Supporter enquiries

Tearfund – UK

Democratic Republic of Congo

Meghan Armistead

Program development coordinator & senior writer

Lutheran World Relief - USA

Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, northern Uganda, Liberia

Ken Bacon

President

Refugees International - USA

Northern Uganda

Frank Baum

Coordinator projects

Diakonisches Werk EKD - Germany

Democratic Republic of Congo, Chechnya, Colombia

Brian Beckett

Programme funding and support/emergencies team

Christian Aid – UK

Democratic Republic of Congo

Martin Bell

British journalist, former lawmaker, UNICEF UK’s ambassador for humanitarian emergencies

Darfur

Mihir Bhatt

Honorary director

Disaster Mitigation Institute – India

Gujarat Riots of 2002

Jan Boeynaems

Finance director

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Belgium

Democratic Republic of Congo

Vicki Horne Bonet

Communications manager

Oxfam Community Aid Abroad – Australia

Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, HIV/AIDS

Joy Borman

Team administrator for East and Southern Africa& senior writer

Tearfund – UK

Northern Uganda

Salvano Briceno

Director

U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Looming natural hazards

Annabel Brown

Community Aid Abroad - Australia

East Timor nation building, Afghan reconstruction, Iraq in turmoil, HIV/AIDS in Africa

Sian Buckley

Production manager, Rooftop Productions

Christian Aid – UK

Northern Uganda

Kate Bulbulian

Press officer

Care International - UK

Angola reconstruction, HIV in southern Africa, chronic malnutrition in southern Africa, Malawi in dire straits, Zimbabwe food shortages

Isabelle Carboni

Programme officer, West Africa and Asia

Methodist Relief and Development Fund - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo

Joel Charny

Vice president for policy

Refugees International - USA

Internal displacement in Myanmar

Lucia Castelli

Programme manager

Association of Volunteers in International Service – Italy

Northern Uganda

Noam Chomsky

U.S. political commentator, activist, author and MIT professor

West Papua, Israel-Palestine, natural disasters and child labour in Nicaragua, Haiti, Colombia displacement, displacement of Turkish Kurds, horrifying conditions for rural populations in India and China, Democratic Republic of Congo

James Cox

Advocacy Officer

Children’s Christian Fund - Australia

Northern Uganda, HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea

Alan Davis

Director of strategy and assessment

Institute of War and Peace Reporting - UK

African Great Lakes region, Ingushetia and Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Darfur

Annabel Devas

Campaigns assistant

Tearfund - UK

Northern Uganda

Emma de Vise

Country programme coordinator

War Child – UK

African Great Lakes region

Deron Denton

Staff writer

Children International – USA

Nepal, Africa, plight of Iraqis after U.S. invasion

Michael Eccles

Regional programme officer, Balkans and North Caucasus

Islamic Relief - UK

Chechnya

Jan Egeland

United Nations emergency relief coordinator

Somalia, northern Uganda, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Darfur

Ewa Eriksson

Desk officer for South Asia

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Nepal

Bryan Evans

Researcher, public policy team

Tearfund - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan

Gareth Evans

President

International Crisis Group - Belgium

Nepal, northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo

Justine Frain

Vice president, global community partnerships

GlaxoSmithKline Plc

Neglected infectious diseases

Jose Maria Gallardo

Head of international cooperation department

Caritas Internationalis

Somalia

Tapiwa Gomo

Regional senior information officer, Southern Africa

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Lola Gostelow

Humanitarian policy advisor

Save the Children - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Uganda, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nepal

K.V. Gouthami

Emergency management and preparedness officer, South Asia

Christian Aid - UK

Hunger in Africa

George Graham

Programme officer, East Africa

International Rescue Committee - UK

Northern Uganda, Sudan’s other conflicts (excluding Darfur and southern Sudan), Eritrea malnutrition

Julia Greenberg

Deputy director of international programs

American Jewish World Service - USA

Northern Uganda, food security and HIV in Zimbabwe

Debarati Guha-Sapir

Director

Centre for Research on Disasters, School of Public Health, University of Louvain, Brussels

Somalia

Paul Harvey

Research fellow

Humanitarian Policy Group

Overseas Development Institute - UK

Northern Uganda

Paul Hetherington

Media officer for emergencies

Save the Children UK

Democratic Republic of Congo

Karen Hill

Australia general manager

Save the Children - Australia

Volcanic eruption and evacuation, Manam Island, Medang, PNG

Lindsey Hilsum

International editor

Channel 4 News - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo

Maria Immonen

Advocacy and communication

Lutheran World Federation World Service

West Africa, Horn of Africa, Eritrea

Jean Luc Jouhaneau

Chargé de mission

Triangle Génération Humanitaire - France

North Korea

Tanja Knierim

Challenge fundraising assistant

CARE International - UK

Northern Uganda

Andy Kenyon

Community Aid Abroad - Australia

Drought in northwest Somalia, hunger in Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo

Brenna Kupferman

Deputy director and partnership coordinator

ActionAid - USA 

Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan

Joe Lowry,

Ukraine representative

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Tuberculosis in Eastern Europe

Alec Leggat

Programme funding manager

Ockenden International

Plight of Saharwari people

Lynette Lowndes

Head of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Europe Department

Chernobyl, internally displaced people in Balkans, HIV/AIDS and tuberculoisis in Eastern Europe/Central Asia

Maureen Lynch

Refugees International - USA

Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria violence, Colombia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, stateless people, North Koreans in China, displaced people throughout Central Asia, environmental and climate-related displacement, long-term effects of gender-based violence, long-term effects of torture/psychological trauma from conflict, needs of special populations including adolescents, elderly and disabled in emergencies, detained individuals, particularly asylum seekers

Bob McInnis

International coordinator

Canadian Red Cross

HIV/AIDS

Louise McLean

Emergencies communications and initiatives manager. Emergencies team

ActionAid International

Northern Uganda

Laurie MacGregor

Information section

Norwegian Church Aid

Human trafficking, water, Africa, Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo

Lucinda MacPherson

Senior press and communications officer

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund - UK

Legacy of Rwanda genocide

Anna Mecagni

MALD '05 Candidate

The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston

Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern African food crisis and HIV/AIDS, Colombian displacement

Pierre Mercier

Assistant to desk officer

Première Urgence - France

Western Sahara, Horn of Africa, locust plague, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Manuela Mesa

Writer

Centro de Investigacion para la Paz (CIP), Madrid

HIV/AIDS

Jonathan Miller

Foreign affairs correspondent

Channel 4 News - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo, Chechnya, Aceh, Nepal, Mindanao

Helen Mirren

British film actor, visited Uganda with Oxfam

Northern Uganda

Anna Morck

Project manager

Norwegian Refugee Council

Chechnya

Elisabeth Michau

Head of fundraising and publicity

Health Unlimited - UK

Malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and other infections

Anuradha Mittal

Executive director

The Oakland Institute - USA

International debt

Pierre Moon

Regional funding coordinator, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda

OXFAM Regional Centre, Nairobi

Democratic Republic of Congo

James Morris

Executive director

U.N. World Food Programme

South Sudan, HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, northern Uganda, Colombia displacement, chronic hunger

Anne Nilsen

Head of media unit

Norwegian Red Cross

Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Haiti, Ethiopia/Eritrea

Mamadou Ndiaye

Director general

Office Africain pour le Development et la Cooperation – Senegal

Democratic Republic of Congo, Great Lakes, Liberia, Somalia

Mark Osola

Water and sanitation, Sierra Leone

RedR-IHE – UK

Debt relief

John O'Shea

Chief executive

GOAL – Ireland

Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Uganda, Darfur

Mari Paajanen

Programme officer for humanitarian aid

FinnChurchAid - Finland

Chechnya, Bam earthquake survivors

Loretta Peschi

External relations department

INTERSOS - Italy

Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Uganda

Roy Probert

Communications chief

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Drought in Eritrea, HIV in southern Africa, malaria, Mongolia, Palestinian autonomous and occupied territories, disaster preparedness in Caribbean

Juliette Prodhan

Acting regional humanitarian coordinator

Oxfam GB in East Asia

Sudan

Toni Radler

Communications director

Christian Children's Fund - Australia

Northern Uganda

Tim Raby

Disaster management officer, northern Uganda

Tearfund - UK

Northern Uganda

Samantha Rennie

Director

Handicap International - UK

Angola, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone

Anne C. Richard

Vice president, Government Relations & Advocacy,

International Rescue Committee - USA

Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, West Africa, northern Uganda, Great Lakes, Chechnya

Thomas Dunmore Rodríguez

Programme officer for South America

Christian Aid – UK

Urban violence in Brazil

Show Ei Tun

International Programmes Group

World Vision - USA

Myanmar displacement

Toril Skjetne

Advisor to the advocacy unit/publications coordinator

Norwegian Refugee Council

Northern Uganda, Sudan, Colombia

Amy Slorach

Appeal coordinator

Tearfund - UK

HIV/AIDS in Africa

Jon Snow

News anchorman

Channel 4 News - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo

Paul Stadlen

Writer

Prospect Magazine - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Somaliland

Sarah Stewart

Head of editorial

Christian Aid - UK

Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti

Nathan Targett

Disaster management officer, Eastern and Southern Africa Team

Tearfund - UK

Northern Uganda

Larry Thompson

Senior advocate

Refugees International - USA

Northern Uganda, southern Sudan

Geert van der Linden

Vice president

Asian Development Bank

Human trafficking

Tony Vaux

British author of ‘The Selfish Altruist’ and head of Humanitarian Initiatives

Western Congo

Julie Verhaar

Senior fundraiser

The Netherlands Red Cross

Sudan conflict, Uganda violence, Ivory Coast unrest, Haiti unrest, North Korea famine

Dan Vexler

Research manager

International Crisis Group - Belgium

Nepal, Bangladesh, Kosovo

Ann Walle

Director of marketing and communications

Church World Service - USA

Sudan, Haiti, Liberia, repatriation of Burundian refugees from camps in western Tanzania

Jonathan Walter

Editor, ‘World Disasters Report’

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Burma IDPs, Nepal, India fluoride poisoning, India NE insurgency and AIDS, Central African Republic, pregnancy-related deaths worldwide, Russia/FSU radioactive contamination, AIDS in Eastern Europe

Mariel Weighill

Programmes director

War Child - UK

Impact on children in Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Uganda, Chechnya, Colombia, Nepal, Balkans

Susan Wilson

Fundraising department

Médecins Sans Frontières - UK

Gap between rich and poor

Pam Wilson

International relief coordinator

Operation Mercy - Sweden

HIV/AIDS, effects of global warming

Yoma Winder

Humanitarian programme advisor, Humanitarian Department, International Division

Oxfam GB 

Democratic Republic of Congo

David Wightwick

Operations director

Merlin – UK

Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia

Gail Wilson

Fundraising manager

African Medical Research Foundation - UK

Northern Uganda, Somalia, HIV/AIDS

Kathryn Wolford

President

Lutheran World Relief - USA

Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Philippines/Mindanao, Uganda, Haiti

Graham Wood

Head of policy

Ockenden International - UK

Global poverty

John Wallace

Head of international partnerships

Mines Advisory Group - UK

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kashmir, Myanmar displacement

Anne Woodworth

Planning advisor, USA

Adventist Development and Relief Agency International - USA

Darfur, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo

Veronica Yates

Emergencies communications officer

Save the Children Alliance

Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, North Korea

Randall Zindler

Chief executive

Medair - Switzerland

Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Uganda, Northern Sudan (including Nuba mountains, Upper Nile and West Darfur), southern Sudan

Pierre Zwahlen

Media relations

Terre des hommes Foundation - Switzerland

Darfur