Honorary Staff
Dr Fiona Batt
Fiona Batt is an independent human rights consultant with a PhD from the University of Bristol. Additionally, she is an honorary research fellow with the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol, working on the repatriation of cultural heritage back to originating communities. Furthermore, she is the heritage legal advisor for the Singida, Heritage and Archeology Project (SHARP) in Tanzania and a member of the European Association of Archaeologists. She has been a university lecturer in law in the Gambia and Tanzania, where she held associate Dean and acting Dean positions. She is published in cultural heritage repatriation, law and ancient indigenous human remains and intangible meteorological knowledge and climate change.
Lucy Claridge
Dr Suzanne Egan
Louise Finer
Louise is freelance researcher, trainer and policy expert on detention, torture prevention and human rights, working with international and national NGOs and detention monitoring bodies. She previously ran the UK National Preventive Mechanism.
Adiola Idowu-Ojo
Justice Ben Kioko
Dr Debra Long
Debra is the international policy manager for rule of law and human rights at the Law Society of England and Wales. In this role, Debra oversees the Lawyers at Risk programme, which supports lawyers globally who face human rights violations, such as arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and enforced disappearance, because of their work. Debra also conducts capacity building and training for lawyers, civil society organisations and other human rights defenders to assist their human rights advocacy.
Debra is a UK qualified solicitor specialised in international human rights and holds a PhD in human rights law from the University of Bristol, UK. Since 2000, Debra has worked globally to promote the implementation of human rights. Before joining the Law Society, Debra was deputy director of the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol. She has also worked as a legal and policy adviser at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and as head of the UN and legal programme at the Association for the Prevention of Torture in Geneva, Switzerland. As well as conducting advocacy at the UN and regional human rights systems, Debra has led international research projects and published widely on international human rights, including on the prevention of torture, the implementation of human rights decisions and the African human rights system.