Staff & Board

Landmine Action employs UK-based permanent staff and consultants, international technical advisors and national staff in Liberia, Western Sahara and Guinea-Bissau.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Andy Burn (Treasurer) is a Chartered Accountant, and since 1993 he has been Managing Director and part owner of Rickards Media, a specialist auditing and consultancy business in London serving media owners such as ITV and The Telegraph. He qualified in 1980, became a partner in a Bristol practice, and prior to Rickards held directorships in wholesale and property companies.

Clare Crawford (Co-Chairman) works as a free-lance consultant to a variety of non-governmental organizations, among them Save the Children during its Children and Conflict Campaign. Prior to this she spent eight years working for Mines Advisory Group (MAG), firstly as their Parliamentary Officer and then as their Director of Advocacy, Media and Campaigns. She holds a BA in Communications and Economics from the University of Denver, USA.

Olivia Dix works as a free-lance consultant in the voluntary and public sectors.  She is currently heading up the Palliative Care Initiative of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and working for the Local Government Association on reducing re-offending. She is also the Vice-chair of a NHS Primary Care Trust. Previously she was Head of Policy at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, in which capacity she developed the UK and International funding programmes, including the partnership with Landmine Action.  Earlier positions in a 30 year career in the voluntary and public sectors have included CEO of a National Cancer Information organization and of a University Settlement in the East End of London.  She has a 1st Class BA and Masters in History.

Malcolm Harper worked for Oxfam for 18 years, during which time he contributed to projects in East and West Africa and Cambodia. From 1982-2004 he was the Director of the United Nations Association and has campaigned steadily on the issue of non-violent conflict resolution and on the role which the United Nations could play in its achievement. He is also a Governor of International Students’ House in London, Chair of the International Broadcasting Trust and its Third World and Environment Broadcasting Project and a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Committee for the UN’s Environment and Development Programs (UNED-UK).

Anna Macdonald is Conflict and Humanitarian Campaign Manager for Oxfam GB.  She has worked in the voluntary sector for 15 years, and has held a number of posts with Oxfam, including internationally, and led campaigns on a range of issues. Currently, she leads the Control Arms campaign for Oxfam International (a joint campaign with Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms - IANSA), campaigning for an international Arms Trade Treaty, which achieved the support of 153 goverments at the UN GA in December 2006, and Rights in Crisis, campaigning for better response to humanitarian and conflict crises.

Kate Moore works for Soroptimist International, an organization with active representation in the UN in New York, Geneva, Paris and Rome and  she is Ambassador for ‘Project Independence - Women Survivors of War in the UK’. She has raised awareness and funds for the ICRC’s  "Limbs for Life" project in Georgia, Afghanistan and Angola.  Kate has 15 years experience in the Personnel, Safety and Welfare Industry and has run her own Outplacement Consultancy business.  She was awarded the MBE for Services to the Disabled in the 1993 New Years Honours List.

Malcolm Rodgers (Co-Chairman) is an International Development Consultant, who was formerly Head of International Affairs at the British Refugee Council, and most recently Senior Policy Analyst for Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs at British development agency Christian Aid. He trained as an Anthropologist at the School of Oriental And African Studies in London and carried out post graduate field work in Tamil Nadu, south India, in 1983 and 1985. He was a MacArthur NGO fellow at Kings College London, Centre for Defence Studies in 1998. He has published widely on conflict, humanitarian affairs and international protection in Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Sri Lanka. He is a founder member of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

Christian Ruge is based in Oslo and works as an independent consultant on human security issues, in particular relating to Explosive Remnants of War and the humanitarian impact of armed violence in war and post-war situations. Currently he is a consultant  to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Cluster Munitions Process and on implementation of the 1997 Anti-personnel Mine Ban Treaty, as well as to Norwegian and international NGOs.  He is on leave from the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, where he has been Senior Advisor since 2001. Before joining Fafo, he was Policy Advisor at Norwegian People's Aid Mine Action Unit and member of the executive bodies of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Landmine Monitor. He holds a BA in Anthropology and Geography from Oslo University. Christian was appointed to the Landmine Action Board in March 2007.

Quincy Whitaker is a barrister practising from Doughty Street Chambers, and specialises in domestic and international criminal justice related human rights law. She has appeared before the Special Court of Sierra Leone and ICTY, and has extensive experience of Caribbean death penalty litigation.  She has worked as a Criminal Justice consultant for DFID in Kosovo and is co-author of Criminal Justice Police Powers and the Human Rights Act (Blackstones 2002). She has provided human rights training for government departments and senior police officers in the UK and for lawyers and judges in Turkey, Cameroon and Sierra Leone. She currently teaches LLM students at the LSE on human rights in the developing world. She holds a BA from Oxford in Jurisprudence and a First Class LLM in International Human Rights Law from the LSE.