Our board
Mark Bradbury (Chair)
Mark Bradbury trained in anthropology, rural development and conflict analysis. He worked in Sudan from 1983-88 as a teacher and with ActionAid and was then country director with ActionAid in Somalia until 1992. Mark now works as a freelance social analyst for a wide range of organizations, including ACORD, ActionAid, OXFAM, Overseas Development Institute, UNICEF, UNDP, DFID, Conciliation Resources and others. He has extensive experience in conflict situations, particularly in the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Kosovo, where he has done many field studies and evaluations. Mark's publications include studies on Somalia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, conflict and development, conflict resolution, human rights and complex emergencies.
Barney Afako
Barney Afako is a Ugandan lawyer and expert on transitional justice who has worked in the fields of human rights and criminal justice in Uganda, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. He works as a consultant on peace talks for civil society, the Ugandan Amnesty Commission and the government. He is one of the leading legal analysts of the International Criminal Court investigation in northern Uganda. Barney is also a part-time immigration judge in the United Kingdom.
George Carey
George Carey is a television producer and film-maker who has specialised in world events for many years. A former Editor of Newsnight and Panorama, he became an independent producer in 1988, and was for several years Director of Programmes at Mentorn, one of the UK's largest production companies. Among the strands he was responsible for were Channel 4's Unreported World and BBC1 Question Time, as well as several prize winning documentaries made in conflict zones such as Bosnia, Chechnya and Kosovo.
Andy Carl
Andy is the co-founder and Executive Director of Conciliation Resources (CR) and is also a member of its board. This arrangement, agreed with the UK Charity Commission, is reviewed annually by the board. Unusual for a British charity, it is intended to recognize the principle of staff ownership of CR and the valuable contribution Andy can make to its governance. Read Andy's biography on the staff pages.
Bob Cooke (Honorary Treasurer)
Bob Cooke is a chartered accountant who worked with Arthur Young (now Ernst and Young) in London. He then worked for two years in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Zambia for Coopers and Lybrand, and later joined British Alcan Aluminium as a financial analyst. Leaving industry, he joined the agency Concern as national accountant based in Mozambique for four years. Formerly finance manager of the Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland and the Living Earth Foundation, Bob is now Head of Finance at The Gaia Foundation and Gingerbread. He also acts a consultant to various charities and is the accountant for the Green Belt Movement Foundation, the foundation for the 2005 Nobel peace prize-winner.
Chandra Lekha Sriram
Chandra Lekha Sriram was appointed Professor of Human Rights at the University of East London in October 2005. In 2006, she founded the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, an interdisciplinary centre promoting policy-relevant research and events aimed at developing greater knowledge about the relationship between human rights and conflict. Her areas of teaching expertise include war and human rights, public international law, international criminal law, human rights, and conflict prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding.
Liz Philipson
Liz Philipson is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science; national chairperson for War on Want; and has worked with CR on projects in Sri Lanka and Nepal. From 1993-97 she worked as South Asia Programme Manager at International Alert and directed several conflict resolution initiatives within Sri Lanka. Before this, she was a researcher in the UK House of Commons and office manager for Jeremy Corbyn MP. Liz has held many positions in the British Labour Party and trade union movement. Her current activities, apart from academic research and teaching, are freelance conflict analysis assignments, interactive training in conflict transformation, and dialogue facilitation. In 2002 she was part of the EC Conflict Prevention Assessment Mission in Nepal. She has an MSc in Development Studies from South Bank University in London.
Margo Picken
Margo Picken has worked in the field of human rights for much of her professional career. Most recently, she worked for the United Nations as Director of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia from 2001 to 2007. She was responsible for the human rights programme of the Ford Foundation from 1988 to 1995. She established and directed the Office of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York from 1976 to 1987. She is the author of several articles on human rights, and has served on the boards of a number of non-governmental organizations. She is a graduate of the University of London with a Masters Degree in International Relations.
Teresa Whitfield
Teresa Whitfield joined the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) as Senior Fellow and Adviser on UN Strategy in May 2008. Before this she spent three years as Director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, a program of the Social Science Research Council that facilitates access by UN officials to outside sources of expertise on countries in conflict or crisis. From 1995-2000 she worked in the UN’s Department of Political Affairs. She has also worked as a consultant with the Ford Foundation and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and has a long association with CPPF, serving as regional advisor on Latin America from 2001-2003 and as acting director from 2001-2002. Her books include the recently published Friends Indeed: the United Nations, Groups of Friends and the Resolution of Conflict and she has also published on peace processes in Central America and Colombia. Teresa holds degrees in Latin American Studies and English Literature and was a journalist and filmmaker in her early career.
