Member Directory
Sam works on policy and advocacy across all areas of Reprieve’s work, including accountability for UK intelligence involvement in rights abuses as well as the oversight of security and justice assistance overseas. He is also a non-practicing barrister, and prior to joining Reprieve, he was an Advocacy Officer at Liberty.
Floran Vadillo, PhD in political science, associate researcher at the IRM (University of Bordeaux) and teacher at Sciences Po. Floran was security advisor to the President of the National Assembly's Laws Committee and, in this capacity, played a major role in the drafting of the 2015 Intelligence Act in France. He then served as advisor to the Minister of Justice and, since 2017, has been working for a major French digital company.
Eleftherios is a co-founder of the Greek civil society organisation "Homo Digitalis", which is a member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network. He is a lawyer admitted to practice in Greece, while also he works as a research associate at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) of KU Leuven. Eleftherios holds a LLB from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a LLM on Law and Technology from Tilburg University Law School and a MSc in Digital Humanities from the Computer Science School of KU Leuven. Finally, he holds a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Richard is Head of the UK for Chorus Intelligence. He began his career with the Metropolitan Police Service as a Fingerprint Expert before quickly proceeding to be a Crime Scene Manager on one of London's busiest boroughs. After 10 years he decided to spread his wings into managing the Fingerprint Department in the Cayman Islands before coming back to the UK to head up the Fingerprint services of Northamptonshire Police and then the laboratory services of the East Midlands.
Nina Galla is senior advisor for the study commission "Artificial
Intelligence Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological
Potential" for the parliamentary group THE LEFT PARTY at the German
Bundestag. She works with the development of digitisation in public
relations, education and politics since 2004. Before her employment at
THE LEFT PARTY she developed education programmes for adults and teachers.
Didier Bigo is professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences Po Paris-CERI, France. He is part time professor at King’s College London, department of War Studies. He is additionally director of the Centre for study of Conflicts, Liberty and Security (CCLS) and editor of the quarterly journal “Cultures & Conflits” published by L'Harmattan. He is one of the co-editors of the new PARISS (Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences) journal, Brill, 2019, as well as founder and previous co-editor with Rob Walker of the ISA (International Political Sociology) journal.
Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz is a lecturer at the School of Law of University of Portsmouth. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Law from Istanbul University, and an LLM in Public International Law and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London. Elif is also a registered lawyer at Istanbul Bar Association.
Elspeth Guild is a Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in law at Queen Mary University of London and Emeritus Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a partner at the London law firm Kingsley Napley. She regularly advises EU institutions on migration and asylum related matters and has written studies for the European Parliament on the European dimension of the refugee crisis 2016. She also advises the Council of Europe and has written two Issue Papers for the Commissioner for Human Rights, one on the right to leave a country the other on criminalization of migration. In 2009 her monograph Security and Migration in the 21st Century Polity, Cambridge, 2009 was published. In 2017 she co-edited with Stefanie Grant and Kees Groenendijk The Human Rights of Migrants in the 21st Century published with Routledge in the Focus series directed at the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
Marion Oswald is Vice-Chancellor's Senior Fellow in Law at the University of Northumbria, an Associate Fellow of RUSI and a solicitor (non-practising). She is Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and West Midlands Police data ethics committee, a member of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee, a member of the Advisory Board to the Ada Lovelace Institute Ryder Review of the Governance of Biometric Technologies, and an executive member of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association.