Staff & Board

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

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

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 (Co-Chairman) 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 is a member of 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.

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.