Forest Peoples Programme Supporting forest peoples’ rights

Staff and Board

FPP employs a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in land rights, environment and development, and indigenous affairs with high-level qualifications in social anthropology, human rights law, tropical forest ecology and environmental science. The team has longstanding and extensive experience working directly with indigenous peoples and forests in all corners of the globe.

Staff

Marcus Colchester Director
Louise Henson Organisational Managing Director
Patrick Anderson Policy Advisor - Indonesia
Balla Camara Finance and Monitoring Officer
Sophie Chao Assistant to the Director
Fiona Cottrell Finance Manager
Valérie Couillard Coordinator, Legal and Human Rights Programme (LHRP)
Conrad Feather Project Officer, RFP & EGP
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari Coordinator, Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)
Emmanuel Freudenthal Project Officer, EGP & RFP
Tom Griffiths Coordinator, Responsible Finance Programme (RFP)
Gemma Humphrys Communications and Administrative Assistant
Vanessa Jiménez Senior Attorney, LHRP
Caroline de Jong Project Officer, EGP
Denis Juneau Project Technical Advisor, DRC
Justin Kenrick Policy Advisor, Africa
Chris Kidd Project Officer, LHRP
Patrick Kipalu Project Coordinator, DRC
Emil Kleden Field Officer, Indonesia
Tom Lomax Lawyer, LHRP
Francesco Martone Policy Advisor, RFP
Alancay Morales Garro Project Officer, LHRP
John Nelson Africa Regional Coordinator
Julia Overton Logistics and Administrative Officer
Sarah Roberts Institutional Finance Manager
Annabelle Rossi Communications Officer
Helen Tugendhat Policy Advisor, LHRP and RFP
Messe Venant Field Officer, Cameroon
Stéphanie Vig Lawyer, LHRP
Rebecca Whitby Administrative Assistant
Penninah Zaninka Project Officer, Uganda

 

Board of trustees

  Position Expertise
Paul Wolvekamp (Chair) Deputy Director, Both ENDS, Netherlands Community development and livelihoods
Saskia Ozinga (Treasurer) Director, FERN The EU Forest Campaign Aid, trade and environment
Joji Cariño Tebtebba, Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education Indigenous peoples and human rights
Chad Dobson Executive Director, Bank Information Center Development policy and civil society
Séamus P Finn OMI Director, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation Ethics and international finance
Carolyn Marr Coordinator, DTE International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia Indonesian peoples, forests and environment
Justin Phipps Solicitor Social anthropology, law and human rights
Tarcila Rivera Zea Journalist and Director of El Consejo Directivo de Chirapaq / Coordinación Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas Región Sudamerica Indigenous women's rights in South America
Silas Siakor Former Director of Sustainable Development Institute, Liberia Community rights to land and resources, alternative and sustainable development in Liberia
Carol Yong Independent researcher-consultant Indigenous peoples, dams, forced displacement, gender and development