Dana Clark founded IAP
in 2003. She is a human rights and environmental lawyer who specializes in
working at both the grassroots and international levels to promote
justice and accountability in the context of international development
projects. She is a co-author and co-editor of Demanding
Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection
Panel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and has written numerous articles and publications on development justice and human rights. From 1994-2000, Ms. Clark worked with the Center for International
Environmental Law, a public interest environmental organization based
in Washington, DC, where she served as Director of the International
Financial Institutions program. While in Washington, Ms. Clark also
served as a regular adjunct professor at The American University's
Washington College of Law, where she taught several courses in
international environmental law.
Lafcadio Cortesi has more than 15 years of experience working in North America and the Asia Pacific region on community-based natural resource management, institutional development, sustainable enterprise and biodiversity conservation. He worked for Greenpeace for over 10 years as a forests campaigner, three years as a senior program officer with the USAID-funded Biodiversity Support Program and more than two years as a volunteer with a local Indonesian community development NGO. Mr. Cortesi is currently the Forest Campaign Director at Rainforest Action Network.
Gopal Dayaneni is a trainer with Movement Generation. He is the former Communications Coordinator for the Clean Computer Campaign of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, as well as Oil Campaign Coordinator for Project Underground, where he worked to support communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the world. Mr. Dayaneni also serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Alliance based in Oakland, California.
Katie Redford is a co-founder and co-director of Earth Rights International, an organization that focuses on human rights and the environment, with an emphasis on corporate and government accountability. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights. She directs the U.S. east coast office and resource center, assists with ERI's earth rights litigation, and coordinates a coalition of human rights and environmental NGOs in campaigns such as the International Right to Know.
Jack Vanderryn is the former Senior Fellow for Environment and Development at The Moriah Fund, a foundation in Washington, DC. At Moriah, he managed a development portfolio that addressed both reform of the multilateral international financial institutions as well as international trade and globalization issues.
Funders
IAP is funded through the generous support of our many individual supporters and by the following foundations and major donors:
International Accountability Project
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