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Professor Christine Chinkin FBA

Director
Emerita Professor of International Law
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Dr Marsha Henry

Deputy Director
Associate Professor
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Ms Zoe Gillard

Centre Manager
Contact: z.gillard@lse.ac.uk
+44(0)20 3486 2959

Ms Yael Nevo

Centre Administrator
Contact: y.nevo@lse.ac.uk

+44(0)20 7101 5286

Ms Lisa Gormley
Research Officer
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Ms Kelsey Kamitomo
Project Officer
Contact: K.Kamitomo@lse.ac.uk 
Tackling Violence Against Women

Dr Zeynep Kaya
Research Officer
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Dr Paul Kirby
Research Fellow
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Ms Lucía Mazzuca 
Research Officer
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Dr Punam Yadav
Research Fellow
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Louise Arimatsu is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Law Department, Exeter University, focussing predominantly on international law and war. 

Jane Connors is International Advocacy Director Law and Policy for Amnesty International, based in Geneva.

Marie Forestier is an independent journalist currently researching sexual violence against Syrian women. 

Jane Gordon is an independent barrister and human rights advisor to statutory and public agencies, an accredited gender and sexual violence expert and Legal Director of Sisters For Change.

William J Hague, Lord Hague, is co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI).

Angelina Jolie  DCMG is Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI).

Bela Kapur  is an independent expert on women, peace and security. Her research areas include the role of women in peace and political processes and the linkages between local and national processes, as well as transformational coalition building, agenda setting and influencing. 

Antonia Mulvey is the Founder and Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide (LAW). She is an international human rights lawyer with extensive experience in addressing sexual violence in fragile and conflict affected states, both with the UN and INGOs.

Madeleine Rees,OBE, is a British lawyer and current Secretary
General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dubravka Šimonovic is United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences.

Laura J Shepherd is Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, UNSW Australia. Laura’s primary research focuses on the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda.

Dr Louise Arimatsu is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University and Visiting Senior Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Read more

Dr Susan Atkins CB was the first Service Complaints Commissioner for the UK Armed Forces (2007 – 2015) and former Director of Women and Equality in the Cabinet Office.

Ms Chloe Dalton is a Director of JP.D.H London Ltd, and former Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary, 2010-2014

Ms Pamela DeLargy is currently Special Advisor to the U.N. Special Representative for Migration. She is a specialist on the Horn of Africa and has worked for two decades to ensure that gender is considered seriously in UN humanitarian and development assistance programmes.

Ms Alison Gordon MBA OBE (chair) served for 10 years in the British Foreign Office, working in the Middle East, South America and South Asia. She is co-founder and co-director of Sisters for Change. Read more.

Baroness Mary Goudie is a senior member of the British House of Lords, and a global advocate for the rights of women and children. Read more.

Baroness Arminka Helic is a member of the British House of Lords, and former Senior Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary, 2010-2014. 

Dr Henri Myrttinen is Head of Gender and Peacebuilding at International Alert. Read more.

Ms Madeleine Rees OBE is Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Visiting Professor in Practice at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Read more.

Ms Jane Sloane is Vice President of Programs at the Global Fund for Women. Read more.

Dr Keina Yoshida is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers Read more