Our Advisors

Dr Sophie Lemaitre
Natural resource lawyer and anti-corruption expert

Sophie is a lawyer with extensive experience in governance, anti-corruption issues, natural resources sector, and illicit financial flows. She has worked for various organisations and NGOs at the national and international level, including CIRAD, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and Sherpa. Between 2019 and 2023 she was a Senior Adviser and then Deputy Director at U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. She is a Research Associate at the Université de Rennes.

Jorian Hamster
Senior Associate, DLA Piper

Jorian is an international disputes lawyer at DLA Piper, with a strong focus on emerging markets and ESG disputes in the energy and natural resources sector. With a background in International and European law and many years of experience in corporate disputes, Jorian is uniquely positioned to help businesses navigate human rights, biodiversity and climate change risks in operations across the developing world. He considered a leading figure on human rights & environmental due diligence.

Amanda Gore
Founder & CEO, Global Advancement

Amanda is a forensic accountant who specialises in supporting litigation and multi-jurisdictional financial investigations, with an emphasis on anti-corruption, money laundering, tax evasion and asset tracing. Her recent work has concentrated on applying financial crime tools to environmental crime across Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has held positions with Deloitte Forensic and Dispute Services, worked in law enforcement for New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department and the Financial Regulator, and ran her own company supporting UK-based litigation. She was the Deputy Director General of the Botswana Anti-Corruption Agency and a Director for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. More recently, Amanda worked for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, establishing a new financial investigations work-stream for the Wildlife and Forest Programme across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Her company, Centre for Global Advancement (C4GA), aims to advance and innovate new tools and strategies to combat environmental and financial crime.

Joana Setzer
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

Joana Setzer is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI), at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her main areas of expertise are climate litigation and global environmental governance. Joana leads the Grantham Research Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World project and regularly advises a range of international, governments and non-governmental organisations.

Mansour Jobe
Director, Legal and Investigation, National Human Rights Commission of The Gambia

Mansour is a public sector lawyer with a specialisation in human rights. He formerly served as State Counsel, providing legal advice to different government agencies, and prosecuted cases before the subordinate and superior courts of The Gambia. He undertook legal research on behalf of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, was a co-Counsel to the Commission of Inquiry set up to look into the financial dealings of the former president, and served as Deputy Director of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission's Research and Investigations Unit. In his current role in the National Human Rights Commission he supports the monitor of human rights activities in The Gambia and helps provide advice to the government of human rights matters. He also lectures at the International Open University.

Jonathan Barzdo
Independent conservation consultant, formerly CITES Secretariat and former Deputy Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Jonathan is an independent consultant, focusing primarily on issues relating to the use of wild animals and plants and regulation of wildlife trade. He supports governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, institutions and companies to ensure that such trade is legal, sustainable and well managed. His work also encompasses organizational governance related to conservation management.
He was formerly: Deputy Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands; Chief of Governing Bodies of the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); consultant for the European Commission, where he drafted the regulations that implement CITES in the European Union; Head of the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Unit of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre; and Director of TRAFFIC International. Earlier in his career, he was a wildlife consultant, warden of a bird hospital, a zoo keeper, and a genetics research assistant.

Dr Alejandro Iza
Director, IUCN Environmental Law Centre

Alejandro is the Director of the Environmental Law Centre and Head of the Environmental Law Programme of IUCN since 2005. Alejandro is an environmental lawyer with a long trajectory in policy and legal formulation, implementation, and diplomacy in more than 60 countries around the world. In his academic career, he taught Public International Law, International Environmental Law and European law. He authored and co-authored over 50 publications. An Argentine national, he studied law at the University of Buenos Aires. He holds a Master of Laws from the University of London, and a PhD in international law from the University of Buenos Aires.

Charlotte Pasquier
Climate & Forests Lawyer, Client Earth

Charlotte is a lawyer with a focus on natural resource law. Charlotte was also part of the EU Law and Policy team for an international law firm, and has experience of working in legal public affairs and as an in-house lawyer in charge of environmental compliance. Until 2023 she worked with Client Earth, both on the EU Timber Regulation’s enforcement and on their Forest Progarmme, developing their forest conservation programme, and looking at innovative legal pathways to address deforestation. She is a lecturer in European Law at the Faculté Libre de Droit in Lille.

Steve Carmody
Director of Programs, Wildlife Justice Commission

Steve has over 30 years of law enforcement experience, having served with the New South Wales Police Force, Australian Federal Police, and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Mr Carmody was also a Senior Law Enforcement expert with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime developing training packages and undertaking needs assessments in Southeast Asia. Mr Carmody was a recognised illicit drug expert providing expert written and oral testimony in major drug cases. At the Wildlife Justice Commission he leads investigations to dismantle illegal wildlife trade networks.