Quinn in Executive Director for ARTICLE 19. She has a Masters of Business Administration from Georgetown University focusing on global non-profit management and a BA in International Relations and the Environment from Stanford University. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, she worked for the largest non-profit management consultancy in Europe, and was a campaign manager for leading environmental organisations in the United States.
David joined ARTICLE 19 in August 2013. As Senior Director of Programmes, he is responsible for overseeing the programmes of work in Europe and Central Asia, and Asia-Pacific, the thematics leads on Media freedom, Protection and the UN Team, supports governance structures, as well as internal security.
With a BA in Political Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, David has more than 20 years of professional experience in human rights with the UN, and various IGOs and INGOs.
Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, David worked for Amnesty International for ten years, primarily as Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia. He worked in the Balkans region during and after the armed conflict for 7 years, mainly for the OSCE. David lived and work for 4 years in various countries in Africa, including post-genocide Rwanda, Liberia and Burkina Faso.
David speaks English, French and Spanish and has knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.
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Since joining ARTICLE 19 in 2012, Saloua has led the organisation’s programs in Tunisia and gradually in other countries of the MENA region. She has 15 years of experience working in non-governmental and multi-lateral organisations, including the UNDP in Tunisia and the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR). Saloua holds an MSc in Information and Communication from the Institute of Press and Information Sciences in Tunisia. She is accredited as a BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) Facilitator.
Mugambi Kiai joined ARTICLE 19 in January 2020 as the Regional Director for the Kenya and Eastern Africa region. He is a lawyer by training with a very distinguished track record of nearly three decades in the areas of Human Rights, Rule of Law, Justice, Governance and Democracy including Freedom of Expression and Media (Press) Freedom issues and challenges.
He is an LL.M Graduate from Harvard School of Law and has an LL.B from the University of Nairobi, Faculty of Law.
Leopoldo joined ARTICLE 19 in 2013, and became the Regional Director for the Mexico and Central America region from 2020. He holds a BA Degree in Law and a Master’s Degree in Human Rights from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has worked as attorney in the Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro (Centro Prodh), and as a researcher on human rights and immigration issues at the Universidad Iberomericana.
Sara Wilbourne joined ARTICLE 19 in 2016 to lead the development of the organisations’ international communications strategy together with the evolution of international campaigns.
Sara has extensive experience in NGO communications primarily with Amnesty International Secretariat where she held senior positions with responsibility for international publications and strategic communications. She led the development of the iconic Amnesty international brand during a seven-year process which resulted in the first unified global expression of the organisation. Prior to joining Amnesty Sara spent the first twenty years of her career in the field of educational and academic publishing, first joining Longman Scientific and Technical division (now Pearson), and going on to become the youngest university press publisher in Europe in 1992 when she took over the reins of Cork University Press. Sara went on to become the President of the Irish Publishers Association in 2000 and the launched a number of ground-breaking titles with authors who taught her the joy of collaboration and diversity in pursuit of knowledge.