The ARTICLE 19
Team

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Our people

ARTICLE 19 delivers change through local as well as international influence. That’s why our people are based in major cities and regions around the world. We have teams leading advocacy in cities such as New York and Dhaka, and thematic experts driving policy change in places as diverse as Nairobi and Tunis.

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Office Manager
Office Manager Operations Team

Renato Alesi

Renato Alesi

Renato Joined ARTICLE 19 as Office Manager in November 2011. Prior to this, he worked at The Management Centre, a management consultancy working internationally with non-profit organisations, where he coordinated the materials for the management training programmes. He also assisted with the website development; liaised with venues in preparation for events; as well as ensuring the smooth running of the office. At ARTICLE 19 Renato is responsible for the successful day to day running of the International office here in London, he also assists in coordinating travel, events and offers general IT support to the office.

International People and Culture Partner
International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team

Marta Clave

Marta Clave

Marta joined ARTICLE 19 in September 2021, as the International People and Culture Partner, part of the People and Culture team at the International Office. Marta has a Masters of Human Resources from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Liberal Arts from Hunter University. She has worked in a variety of generalist HR roles with a focus on recruitment within the not for profit and international development sector since 2016. Prior to joining ARTICLE19, she worked for one of the world’s leading peacebuilding organisations and Freedom from Torture, a human rights organisation providing therapy and support to torture survivors. During the early phase of the COVID crisis in the UK, she worked leading the International Nursing recruitment programme for one of the NHS Trusts in West Yorkshire. Marta also worked in Egypt during the Arab Spring for Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance focusing on advocacy and psychosocial support to refugees and asylum seekers.

International People and Culture Partner
International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team

Rumana Ali

Rumana Ali

Rumana joined ARTICLE 19’s International office in London from August 2018, as part of the Human Resources team, now known as the People and Culture team, developing and maintaining the HR function and its practices and processes across the organisation. She has a Masters degree in Human Rights at UCL, and is HR CIPD qualified. She is currently the International People and Culture Partner at ARTICLE 19, covering the following areas: recruitment, resourcing and talent planning; the full employee life cycle; HR policies and practices across A19; contracting procedures; monthly payroll; employee relations; employee well-being; coaching; talent management; organisation performance and development; HR systems and HR intranet; HR data analytics; and other ad hoc generalist projects.

Director of Transformation and Strategy
Director of Transformation and Strategy Projects Team

Inger Wong

Inger Wong

Inger manages the Projects Team in ARTICLE 19 where she leads strategic planning and good project management across the organisation including grant management, compliance, monitoring, learning and reporting. Her team also promotes organisational accountability and transparency. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19 in 2009, Inger was a Program Strategist at George P. Johnson, an international experience marketing company based in London. She previously worked in Honduras for Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad (M.P.D.L.), a Spanish development organisation, and has worked for different United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organisation in Thailand and the United Kingdom. Inger holds an LLB in Law and European Legal Systems from the University of East Anglia and an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer
Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer PROJECTS TEAM

Sean Darby

Sean Darby

Sean joined ARTICLE 19 at the start of 2022 as the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer at the International Office based in London. In this role Sean is responsible for leading on developing and maintaining the organisational MEL system including the development of the MEL elements of the organisational strategy.

Prior to joining ARTICLE 19 he previously worked on anti-corruption and transparency issues, with a focus on social accountability. Sean holds a BA in Politics and International Relations, and an MA in Post-Conflict Recovery Studies, both from the University of York.

Senior Director of Programmes
Senior Director of Programmes Programmes

David Diaz-Jogeix
@DiazJogeix

David Diaz-Jogeix
@DiazJogeix

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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