Alex has a background in International development with a particular focus on conflict resolution, peacebuilding and sustainable development. With an MA in Anthropology of Conflict, Violence and Conciliation from Sussex University, he has conducted a wide range of research on the Great Lakes Region of Africa. In addition to being employed by a local authority in the UK, he is an independent researcher on matters relating to human rights and political violence, and is an expert on the DRC.
IANSA Board
The Board oversees IANSA. It takes legal responsibility for IANSA as a registered organisation (currently registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee in the UK). It approves main policy positions, strategy, financial and human resource policies and strategies. It appoints and ensures the effectiveness of the Director. The Board meets at least quarterly, normally at the headquarters of the International Secretariat. For more details, see 'Governance processes'.
Minutes from IANSA Board meetings are available here.
An Vranckx
An is an analyst with research experience in an array of international security themes. She initiates, develops and manages projects on an individual basis and in teams, and liaises with specialised research institutes and advocacy groups around the globe. An also has considerable field experience accumulated while managing research and cooperation programmes with civil society organisations in Colombia.
David Stephen
David's interests including north-south relations, human rights and climate change. He was a senior United Nations official between 1992 and 2004, serving as the Secretary-General's envoy in Guatemala, Somalia and Guinea-Bissau.
Gill Marshall-Andrews
Gill was a founder, and remains the Chair, of the Gun Control Network established in 1996 after the Dunblane shootings to campaign for tighter gun laws in the UK. She has 14 years of experience in lobbying law makers and mobilising the media for successful campaigns which have resulted in bans on the possession of handguns and the sale of imitations.
Michael Wolkowitz
Michael, based in New York, is a political activist, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. His top priority is gun violence prevention; this is his fourth year serving as Chair of the Board of the Brady Campaign. He is also a long-term board member of various organisations related to progressive politics, social services and the arts. From 1984 to 2006 he was founding CEO of a marketing communications company that he sold in 2001 to the WPP Group.
Oliver Sprague
Oliver is currently Programme Director for work on arms control and policing of the UK section of Amnesty International. He is responsible for policy, research, advocacy and campaigning on arms control issues within the UK section as well as being a media spokesperson for this area of work. His particular focus is on efforts to curb weapons proliferation and promoting international human rights standards on the use of force by armed forces and law enforcement officers. He has over 16 years experience of working on these issues within civil society and been very active in the development of the Arms Trade Treaty and national arms export legislation.
Rebecca Peters
Rebecca was the Director of IANSA from 2002 to 2010. A journalist and lawyer, she has been working to prevent gun violence for nearly 20 years as an activist, researcher, analyst and funder.
Thomas Nash
As the founding coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), Thomas successfully led the global civil society campaign to ban cluster munitions, acting as chief strategist and spokesperson for the CMC from March 2004 to January 2011. He has conducted field research in Kosovo and in Lebanon, where in 2006 he wrote the first report on the use of cluster munitions in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Thomas previously worked for the New Zealand Foreign Ministry in Geneva and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.
