Mariana Katzarova, is the Founder of RAW. Originally from Bulgaria, she was a founder of the first independent newspaper in Bulgaria in 1989, called “Democracy”. After working for 15 years in the war zones of Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya, including 10 years as the researcher on Russia and Chechnya at Amnesty International in London, Mariana founded RAW in 2006.

Nerys Lee, after 25 years at Amnesty International as campaigner and researcher on Western Europe, has been working with Mariana on developing RAW. She is RAW's Company Secretary.

Louis Greig, is a trustee of RAW. He is a stock broker with JP Morgan and a patron of a number of charitable organizations, including the London Committee of Human Rights Watch.

Lynel Long, is a trustee of RAW and an independent consultant on humanitarian and development issues. After working at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Amnesty International, she co-founded Women-to-Work, a charity providing entrepreneurial training and mentoring for survivors of trafficking and domestic violence.  #

Marianne Craig, is a RAW trustee who runs her own career coaching business. She is the founder of Mirus, a low-cost coaching project, which brings together coaches to work with human rights activists and social entrepreneurs.

Nathalie Losekoot is a RAW trustee and the Senior Programme Officer for Europe at Article 19, the international human rights group campaigning for freedom of expression. Previously she worked for Amnesty International and for the Eurasia Foundation in Kyrgyzstan. Nathalie has a particular interest in the CIS region, linking human rights with development.

Nick Williams is a trustee of RAW and a lawyer in the international NGO sector, currently working for Save the Children UK. He is passionate about international human rights and, having trained as a litigator in the commercial sector, has worked for a number of rights based organisations both in the UK and abroad.
 

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