Andrew Gilder
Andrew is a leading private sector environmental, climate change and carbon markets lawyer and Director of Climate Legal. He specialises in climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance and development, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance. He has practical experience which expands over a range of African jurisdictions and including […]
Olivia Rumble
Olivia is a Director of Climate Legal specialising in domestic and international climate change policy and law, loss and damage, climate finance, carbon markets and carbon pricing. She has a deep interest in domestic climate change legislation and adaptation law, and has worked widely across the African continent on the design of framework climate laws […]
Thobani Khumalo
Thobani Khumalo is a researcher and photographer from Eskebheni (Inanda), and was a communications intern at ACCORD. He has 3 years of experience in research, having worked in informal settlements as an ethnographer and being involved in workshops on Stepping Stones and Creating Futures. For the Census 2022, he was the field operations officer for […]
Evan Waddill
Evan is a former intern for the Preventative Action/Mediation Cluster at ACCORD. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and specializations in international law, African Studies, and French. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in International Human Rights at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of […]
Islika Borbor Sisay
Islika Borbor Sisay is a former Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Officer at the United Nations.
Zekarias Beshah Abebe
Zekarias Beshah Abebe is a researcher whose interest broadly lies in peace and security in Africa, protests and social movements in Ethiopia, and development-security nexus in the context of developing societies. Before joining Amani Africa, he held academic and administrative positions in Ethiopia’s higher education institutions. He has been an assistant professor in law and […]
Olumide Abimola Ajayi
Olumide Abimola Ajayi is a Development Manager and holds a PHD degree in Agricultural Economics, Management and Planning from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently a Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He has been a Christian for more than thirty years working amongst different church groups with strong emphasis on […]
Laura Rubidge
Laura Rubidge is a Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholar at the South African Institute of International Affairs. Laura has graduated from the University of Pretoria, where she obtained her Bachelor of Political Science majoring in International Relations and French, as well as a Bachelor of Arts Honours in International Relations. She is currently pursuing her Masters […]
Eve de Coning
Eve de Coning (LLB, LLM (shipping law and law of the sea)) is a specialist director with the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and a trained crime intelligence analyst. Her area of expertise is the prevention of fisheries crime both nationally and internationally and she has worked on these issues in different capacities […]
Lwandile Moyo
Lwandile Moyo is a Programme Officer for the programmes division at ACCORD. Prior to joining ACCORD, she attended Monash South Africa where she earned a Bachelor of social science degree in Politics and International Relations. Shortly after, she completed her Master’s degree (first class) in International Relations at Monash University Melbourne, and is currently pursuing […]