About us | Associates
Over the last year we have drawn on the expertise of a variety of associates in the development of our projects. These have included:
Alex Brazier
Alex Brazier is an independent consultant working on issues related to parliamentary procedure and reform, the relationship between Parliament and Government, the legislative process and financial scrutiny, representative democracy and constitutional reform. From 1999-2008 Alex worked at the Hansard Society (as Director of the Parliament and Government Programme and as the Society's Senior Research Fellow) and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hansard Society. Prior to that he was the Committee Specialist for the House of Commons Social Security Select Committee (1994-98) and undertook specialist research in the House of Commons Library (1998-99).
Alex has published a wide range of books, reports and articles on parliamentary issues including: Systematic Scrutiny, Reforming the Select Committees (2000), Parliament and the Public Purse (2000), Issues in Law Making (Series of Papers 2003-06), Parliament at the Apex (2003), Parliament, Politics and Law Making, (editor and main contributor, 2004), The Fiscal Maze; Parliament, Government and Public Money (lead author, 2006), Law in the Making; Influence and Change in the Legislative Process (co-author, 2008). Alex holds an MSc in social policy from the London School of Economics.
Alice Donald
Alice Donald is an independent consultant working in the fields of international and domestic human rights and the media, with a background in research, writing, editing, training and project management. With Global Partners & Associates, Alice has worked with UNESCO to develop a framework for assessing media development, and with the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute (HRSJ) at London Metropolitan University to examine the implementation of the Human Rights Act by public authorities in England, Scotland and Wales for the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Inquiry.
Alice worked at the BBC World Service from 1991 to 2005: she was editor of the daily current affairs programme East Asia Today from 1999 to 2004 and joint executive editor of Who Runs Your World?, a global multi-media season on the BBC in 2005. Alice has worked in research and communications roles for a range of NGOs in the UK and the Philippines and sits on the Management Committee of the UK-based Indonesian human rights group, Tapol.
Alice graduated with distinction with an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics.
Professor Conor Gearty
Professor Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. He is also a founder member of Matrix Chambers where he practices as a barrister. He is an academic advisor on several projects at Global Partners & Associates, including a project examining the use of human rights in anti-poverty strategies internationally, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Trust.
Prior to joining LSE, Professor Gearty was at Professor of Law at Kings College London, university lecturer in law at Cambridge University and also a fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge. He received his LLB and PhD from Cambridge University and BCL from UCD, Ireland.
Conor's recent work focuses on the dilemma that terrorism poses to civil liberties and he has published widely in the fields of terrorism and civil liberties. Most recently he has published Essays on Human Rights and Terrorism (2008), a collection of essays examining human rights and terrorism in a global, regional and comparative perspective. Civil Liberties (2007) examined the state of civil liberties in terms of the UK as a representative democracy and Can Human Rights Survive (2006), based on his 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, focused on the links between human rights, terrorism and democracy. Professor Gearty has also written extensively for the London Review of Books and the British press. His personal web site can be visited at conorgearty.com.
Elizabeth Mottershaw
Elizabeth Mottershaw is an independent human rights consultant with a focus on poverty, discrimination and armed conflict. Since joining Global Partners & Associates she has researched and written, jointly with Alice Donald, a report on the impact of human rights case law on policy and practice in the UK. She is currently working on a project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which looks at rights-based poverty reduction strategies in a range of countries, and examines the potential for applying this approach in the UK.
Elizabeth worked at Amnesty International from 1998-2008, as a researcher in the Middle East program and as a policy adviser, working with researchers on the design of research projects, the writing of publications, and the formulation of recommendations for change to governments and other actors. Her work included projects on Darfur, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as access to rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, in post-conflict situations in Liberia and Sierra Leone. In 2007 she was seconded to work as deputy director of the Africa Program, managing research and campaigning on West Africa.
She has an LLM, with distinction, in Public International Law, specialising in human rights law and the laws of armed conflict, from the London School of Economics. She also has an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. She has lectured on international law and human rights for the University of Tulsa.
Federica Prina
Federica Prina is a human rights specialist - particularly in Russia - and focuses on freedom of expression, access to information and minority protection. Since joining Global Partners & Associates, she has participated in a scoping study on freedom of expression in Cameroon for the British High Commission and developed a pilot project on minority rights in Russia for the British Embassy in Moscow. Before joining Global Partners & Associates, she worked for almost a decade for the Europe Programme of ARTICLE 19, the global campaign for free expression. As Programme Officer and subsequently Senior Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19 Federica managed several freedom of expression projects in Eastern Europe as well as writing analytical reports on law and practice in the region; she has closely collaborated with local organisations and trained local journalists and lawyers on international standards of freedom of expression and information. In 2001 she also worked as campaigner on the Former Yugoslavia for Amnesty International.
Federica has a LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and a MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. She is currently working on a PhD on minority protection in Russia in University College London's School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. Her working languages are English, French, Russian and Italian.
Kate Wilkinson
Kate Wilkinson is an independent advisor on communications, working predominantly with organisations involved in social and medical care, education and human rights. Kate works with Global Partners & Associates on communications and freedom of expression, particularly the Ford-funded freedom of expression project. For this projected she conducted focus group evaluations of project workshops and developed project communications and materials.
Kate began her career in the private sector developing marketing and technical communications. Moving into the charity sector 15 years ago, Kate's experience includes communications planning, consultation, focus group research, editorial consultancy and copywriting. Before becoming an independent consultant Kate spent two years with INCLUDE as communications manager, where she devised and implemented the charity's first communications strategy. Kate has edited and managed publications for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Liberty and the Civil Liberties Trust. Her clients have included the Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, Mencap and the Equal Opportunities Commission. Kate also chaired the Domestic Violence Intervention Project.