Our Team
The diversity of peoples and communities with whom we work, and the range of issues and challenges that they face, means that effective solidarity has to be grounded in a deep understanding of communities’ realities, needs and aspirations. This has led FPP to develop international and country teams that are composed of social anthropologists, lawyers, experts in environmental policy, land and natural resource governance, geographic information systems (GIS), and mapping, political ecology, among other areas, who are experienced in accompanying communities on their journeys and struggles for rights realization.
Numbering over 70 staff, FPP has a decentralised structure and a diverse team of over twenty nationalities, from all the regions where we work, with team members based in Asia, Africa, South, Central and North America, Europe, and Australia. We aim to reflect that diversity on our board, with around half of FPP’s board members being indigenous. Women make up over half the organisation at all levels, including board and senior management.
Our work programmes and projects are shaped by the priorities of the communities with whom we work, in collaboration with civil society partners, networks and other allies. That work is organised via three core programmes: Environmental Governance Programme, Responsible Finance Programme, and Legal and Human Rights Programme; a cross-cutting Gender Programme; alongside a cross-programmatic matrix of country-focused teams and Communications, Finance and Logistics teams.
Our specialised country-focused teams, built on close and enduring relationships with communities and civil society partners, allow us to gain a direct and deep understanding of the issues that indigenous peoples and forest peoples are facing in their diverse contexts, and be agile and responsive to their needs and priorities. In parallel, our thematic programme structure facilitates indigenous peoples and forest peoples to access and influence processes for systemic change at the national and global levels, from which their voices may otherwise be marginalised or excluded.
We see our purpose as supporting specific indigenous peoples and forest peoples on the ground to determine and implement their own futures, while also enabling them to create and use ’political spaces’ at national and international levels to advocate for their rights – whether through human rights bodies; climate, biodiversity and corporate accountability policy spaces at the UN and regional levels; development cooperation agencies and international finance institutions; trade and certification systems; or other fora.
Director
Tom Lomax: Director and Senior Lawyer
Programme Coordination and Management Team
Cathal Doyle: Coordinator, Legal and Human Rights Programme; Head of Strategic Legal Response Centre
Oda Almås-Smith: Coordinator, Responsible Finance Programme (RFP)
Louise Henson: Managing Director
Anouska Perram: Lawyer and Interim Coordinator of the Environmental Governance Programme.
Brian Rault: Institutional and Grants Finance Manager
Staff
Patrick Anderson: Senior Policy Advisor, Indonesia
María Arango: Lawyer, Colombia
Amelia Arreguin Prado - Project Officer (EGP)
Naomi Baird: Programme Assistant, Indonesia
Ligia Baracat: UK Policy and Advocacy Project Officer
Joji Cariño: Senior Policy Advisor
Yaizha Campanario: Programme Assistant (LHRP and RFP)
Alejandra Campos: People Management Officer
Jen Castello: DRC Programme Coordinator
Marianne Chevé: Project Finance Officer
Xilonem Clarke: Project Officer – Environmental Governance Programme
Marcus Colchester: Senior Policy Advisor
Fiona Cottrell: Strategic Finance Manager
Jane Dennett: Administration Officer
Emilien Devos: Democratic Republic of Congo Project Officer
Lara Dominguez: Lawyer
Gavin Fielding: Finance Officer and Project Officer – Responsible Finance Programme
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari: Senior Policy Advisor
Antoine Gibert: EU Policy and Advocacy officer
Tom Griffiths: Senior Policy Advisor
Dalton Aweleka Gbap: Project Officer, Congo Basin
Meg Hall: Head of Programme Engagement
Josephine Haworth-Lee: Gender Project Officer
K Holberton: Programme Assistant, Congo Basin
Suzanne Iloki: Finance Officer, Congo Basin
Arif Jamal: Finance Officer
Frances Jenner: Communication and Media Officer
Caroline de Jong: Senior Policy Advisor (EGP)
Justin Kenrick: Senior Policy Advisor
Chris Kidd: Senior Policy Advisor (EGP)
Lassana Kone: Lawyer
Adam Lunn: ZTI Global Facilitator and Focal Point
Angus MacInnes: Project Officer
Lina Martínez: Administration Officer, Colombia
Lan Mei: Lawyer
Joel Missoka: Field Officer Cameroon
Chantelle Murtagh: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead and Project Manager
Helen Newing: Senior Policy Advisor
Kate Newman: Charity Secretary and Logistics and Admin Manager
Stephen Nounah: Lawyer, Cameroon
Macnight Nsioh: Country Lead, Cameroon
Susana Núñez Lendo: Project Officer (EGP)
Julia Overton: Publications Officer
Angela Paola Mera Mejía: Peru Project Officer
Manjeet Panesar: Grant Finance Manager
Matías Pérez Ojeda del Arco: Peru Project Coordinator
Agata Pilarz: Project Manager
Jake Randall: Assistant Communication Officer
Jehovana Riofrio Espinoza: Grants Finance Officer
Sarah Roberts: Finance Advisor
Tom Rowley: Community-based Mapping & Monitoring Officer
Nelsith Sangama: Programme Assistant, Peru
Niya Seklemova: Digital Communication Officer
Sally Taylor: Finance Assistant
Francesca Thornberry: Interim Congo Basin Coordinator and Senior Policy Advisor
Nathalia Ulloa: Costa Rica Programme Coordinator
Audrey Versteegen: Mapping and Monitoring Officer
Eleri Ware: Finance Officer
Clare Whitmore: Database and Technical Officer
Tom Younger: Policy Advisor, Peru
Of Counsel/Associate Fellows
We are fortunate to have the support and strategic guidance from the following people who have a strong and long-standing relationship with FPP. They are experts in their field, trusted allies and critical friends. When they are best placed to do so, they take on paid consultancies and represent FPP in their sphere of expertise.
Fergus MacKay led FPP’s legal programme for 23 years. He now offers FPP counsel and supports FPP’s Strategic Legal Response Centre.
Norman Jiwan is an indigenous Kerambai Dayak from West Kalimantan, Indonesia. He is a long-term social justice advocate with a deep experience of the palm oil sector.
Board of trustees
Marie-Josee Artist, Association of Village Leaders in Suriname (VIDS). Expertise: Gender and women’s rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, international advocacy, climate change and indigenous peoples.
Kevin Currey, Independent consultant on forest tenure, human rights, and climate change
Patricia Borraz Fernández, Independent consultant on human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights and the United Nations system, and Senior Advisor for Latin America, Global Research and the United Nations at Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI).
Robie Halip, Coordinator, Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples (REP) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE).
Carol Kalafatic, Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (Coventry University), and a Research Fellow at the Resistance Studies Initiative (University of Massachusetts).
Peter Kitelo, Strategic Director and co-founder of the Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project (CIPDP)
Michel Pimbert (Co-Chair), Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics and Director, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University.
Sarah Roberts, Chartered Accountant. Expertise: Charity Finance and Governance and General Institutional Management
Richard Williams, (Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee), Chartered Accountant and Chartered Member of the Securities Institute.
Organisational Information
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is registered as a UK Charity (UK Charity No. 1082158) and a company limited by guarantee in England & Wales (Reg. No 3868836).
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
1c Fosseway Business Centre, Stratford Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9NQ, UK
Contact
- info@forestpeoples.org
- Tel: +44(0)1608 652893
Remuneration
The members of the Board of Trustees perform their duties without remuneration.
Staff remuneration is currently governed by a remuneration policy common to FPP UK that takes into account inter alia skills and experience, responsibilities and location.