Anil Pant
Anil is a freelance consultant based in Nepal. He has extensive experience in governance, organisational development, human rights campaigning, conflict management and human-rights based development programming. From 2012 and 2018, he served as the Director of Amnesty International’s Movement Support Program and from 2009 to 2012 as the Director of Global Campaigns Program in London, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Anil served as the Head of Governance of ActionAid International in Johannesburg, South Africa. Anil was also a member of Amnesty’s Global Standing Committee on Organisation and Development in 1999-2003 that advised the International Board on organisational development matters. He worked in the field of human rights, development, governance and conflict management in Nepal before moving on to undertaking international positions.
Marc Bontemps
Marc is a commercial engineer who worked as auditor for PwC Belgium and was lecturer of Cost Accounting at Brussels University. He fulfilled different management functions in development NGO’s such as Oxfam Belgium, Ecolife, Forum Ethibel/Vigeo and NewB (a sustainable and ethical financial actor in Belgium). Being retired he is now active in the Belgian association of Responsable Fundraising and in Gents Ecological Centre. In PBI he is since 2018 member of the International Council, Treasurer, member of the Finance and Audit Committee and active in PBI-Belgium.
Annette Fingscheidt
Annette is a German national with an extensive educational background in social sciences, holding degrees in Social Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies. Her journey in human rights began during her studies, focusing primarily on Latin America, and she shares a long-lasting history with Peace Brigades International and its core values. Twenty-five years ago, she volunteered with our team in Colombia, sparking her enduring commitment to the cause. Since then, she has held various roles within PBI, both in Germany and at the international level.
Pilar Sanmartín
Pilar is the Americas Crisis Coordinator at Amnesty International, where she has dedicated the past eight years to addressing human rights crises across the continent from her base in Mexico City. She has led rapid responses to urgent situations in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Haiti.
Before her role at Amnesty, Pilar investigated serious human rights violations for the UN in Mexico and has valuable experience with Peace Brigades International in our teams in Mexico and Colombia. Her previous roles include work at the European Parliament and OHCHR, showcasing her commitment to human rights on a global scale.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Pilar enjoys reading, traveling, dancing, and cherishing summers with her family in her small village in Spain.
Helen Moulinos
Helen Moulinos is an inquisitive leader with cross-sector experience spanning finance, public policy, and social impact. She has a proven record of leading complex change, strengthening governance, informing the rule of law and public policy, and delivering sustainable outcomes across global systems.
From 2026, Helen has joined the International Council of Peace Brigades International and the Cost Lawyer Standards Board as a Lay Non-Executive Board Director. Helen has held non-executive roles at Amnesty International UK: Chair of AGM & National Conference, Vice-Chair of the Board, and Co-Chair of the Oversight Panel. She has served as a Board Trustee at the Civil Liberties Trust, the Working Well Trust, the Global Legal Action Network, and as an Independent Non-Executive Director at the Food Network for Ethical Trade. She is serving her second term as an independent external assessor for senior policing appointments at the College of Policing.
Helen’s 30-year executive career includes recent roles as CEO of Anti-Slavery International, Interim CEO at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Chief Executive at POhWER, Interim Director of Change at Marie Curie, and Interim COO at Stonewall, where she has led transformation programmes that delivered social impact. She has advised leading charities, including The Alzheimer’s Society, Age UK, and The Children’s Society, on outsourcing and divestitures. Earlier in her career, Helen trained as an economist and worked within corporate finance at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Salomon Brothers.
Helen holds a BA in Creative Studies (Liberal Arts) from Hofstra University and an MSc in Finance from the Zicklin School of Business at City University of New York. She is completing an MA in International Affairs (Strategic Studies) at King’s College London in 2026. From 2026, Helen will retire from her executive career to pursue postgraduate research as an independent researcher examining economics, trade, and social purpose.
Matt Byrne
Matt Byrne Matt is Irish and lives in Geneva, from where he works as a consultant providing protection and security expertise particularly to the humanitarian, especially for the UN and the Norwegian Refugee Council. Matt was also a volunteer in PBI Colombia in 2010, and he wants to give back the experience that PBI provided him. He has worked in several different contexts, with other organizations like the Danish Refugee Council, Irish Aid and others. He had senior management experience, having served as Country Director responsible for teams and complex organizational planning. Matt says “I have built teams, opened offices, and started emergency operations was responsible for ensuring the security and safety of my teams, the communities we serve and Human Rights Defenders and organisations in a variety of conflict and insecure environments.” Matt is also used to work through “in-depth, regular contextual analysis, robust triangulation of sources and data” by “developing networks of influential national and international stakeholders and field level trust building with local defenders and organisations.” Matt can bring all his experience and knowledge in organizational management, leadership consultancy, and PBI volunteer experience and integrating them on PBI’s governance.
Jessica Corredor
Jessica Corredor Villamil is an executive leader with more than 15 years of experience shaping collaborative strategies across civil society and the broader ecosystem. Her career has spanned human rights, democracy, civic space, and crisis response, with a particular focus on building the structures, relationships, and ways of working that enable collective action. She is currently the Director of the Better Preparedness Initiative, hosted by the Human Rights Funders Network and the Peace and Security Funders Group, where she works at the intersection of philanthropy and civil society to strengthen collective preparedness for crises. Previously, she served as Chief Officer for Advocacy and Solidarity Action at CIVICUS.
A Colombian anthropologist based in France, Jessica first encountered PBI while conducting her doctoral research in Colombia’s Bajo Atrato region, where she witnessed firsthand the role of international accompaniment in supporting communities and human rights defenders facing threats and violence.
Jessica holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Sociology and brings to PBI’s International Council experience in human rights protection and civic space, philanthropic and funder ecosystems, organizational governance, coalition-building, and strategy.