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.
Chris Abbott
Anil is Chris Abbott is the founder and CEO of Open Briefing and a collaborator in the Civic Ecosystem Initiative. He is passionate about empowering human rights defenders to agitate and advocate without fear of attacks and reprisals. With Open Briefing, he has created a rapid response mechanism to provide fully-funded holistic security support to human rights defenders and other civic actors at risk of physical, digital, or psychological harm. Chris has a deep understanding of risk management - from the grassroots to the global - through which he hopes to support the mission and people of Peace Brigades International as a member of the international council. Previously, he was the deputy director of the peace and security think tank the Oxford Research Group and an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol and in the Department of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford. He is the author of two books and more than 50 influential reports and articles on security and politics. Closer to home, he lives with his damily on a smallholding in rural Cornwall, whre they have planted over 6,000 trees. As an activist, Chris is also passionate advocate for neurodiversity acceptance, human rights and mental health, and the right to home educate.
Fathi Zabaar (President)
Lien Pham
Marc Bontemps (Treasurer)
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 and Forum Ethibel/Vigeo. In 2010, he co-founded NewB, the new sustainable, ethical cooperative bank in Belgium. In addition to being on PBI’s International Council, Marc is also a member of the Finance and Audit Committee.
Oscar Gómez Córdoba
Oscar is a psychologist, social researcher and human rights activist with extensive experience in providing psychosocial accompaniment to victims of socio-political violence. He has carried out this work in Colombia and Latin America, leading community-based organisations to defend human rights and advocate for victims’ rights to truth, justice and reparation. Oscar is currently a consultant on human rights and lives in the United Kingdom.
Shane Guthrie (Secretary)
Shane has worked and volunteered in peace and human rights for 35 years. He was a field volunteer in the Indonesia Project of Peace Brigades International (PBI) from 1999 to 2002. He has since supported PBI in logistics, training, and human resources management, in Kenya and in its international governance. He also worked with human rights organisations in Indonesia on capacity building and strategic communication. In Australia, he worked as a social justice researcher for several parliamentarians. He currently works in community development for people with disability. Shane has a Master of Development Studies, focused on human rights protection.