The ARTICLE 19
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Our people

ARTICLE 19 delivers change through local as well as international influence. That’s why our people are based in major cities and regions around the world. We have teams leading advocacy in cities such as New York and Dhaka, and thematic experts driving policy change in places as diverse as Nairobi and Tunis.

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Senior Director for Law and Policy
Senior Director for Law and Policy Law and Policy Team

JUDr Barbora Bukovská

JUDr Barbora Bukovská

Barbora Bukovská has been ARTICLE 19’s Senior Director for Law and Policy since 2009. She leads on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and provides legal oversight and support to legal work across the organization.
Barbora has an extensive experience working with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights.  From 2006 to 2008, she was the Legal Director at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, an international organisation working on the rights of people with disabilities in Europe and Central Asia.  She graduated from the Law School of Charles University in Prague and has earned a doctorate degree in law in Slovakia and an LLM degree from Harvard Law School. In 1998 and 1999, she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Law School in New York.
Senior Advocacy Officer
Senior Advocacy Officer Law and Policy Team

Mark Dempsey

Mark Dempsey

Mark joined ARTICLE 19 in April 2023. Based in Brussels, Mark leads on our EU advocacy with the EU institutions and the wider EU policy environment working closely with other civil society organisations inter alia, to ensure that freedom of expression, access to information, protection of journalists and media freedom are safeguarded in EU legislative proposals and existing regulations. Future work will also have a closer focus on market power and competition policy.

Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, Mark has consulted for the European Commission, overseeing data privacy projects in non-EU countries and worked in development finance for a US NGO as a regional director, managing projects in the Middle East for 5 years covering Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Mark also spent 4 years in London working for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an EU policy advisor. Mark has a BA in European Studies from the University of Ulster and masters’ degrees in European Economics and Public Affairs from University College Dublin and in Public Policy (specialising in digital policy) from the Hertie School, Berlin.

Head of UN UN team

Anna Oosterlinck

Anna Oosterlinck

Anna joined ARTICLE 19 in July 2020. She is currently Head of UN and leads ARTICLE 19’s advocacy engagement with the UN in Geneva and NY on freedom of expression and related rights, online and offline.

Previously, she served as Senior Political Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the UN in NY during Belgium’s membership of the Security Council in 2019-20 (and in 2007-2008).  She was appointed by the UN Secretary General as the Human Rights Expert on the UN Security Council mandated Panel of Experts for South Sudan (2015-2018). She has worked on peacekeeping finance at the UN Secretariat, on humanitarian response at Save the Children UK and on international trade for the Flemish government.

She holds a Master of Laws and M.A in International Relations. She has worked in South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, Niger, Haiti, and Peru.

Senior Programme Office - Europe and Media Freedom
Senior Programme Office - Europe and Media Freedom ECA and Media Freedom Teams

Roberta Taveri

Roberta Taveri

Roberta joined ARTICLE 19 in September 2018 and currently works as Senior Programme Office on Europe and Media Freedom, focusing on Southern Europe and leading on the Media Freedom Rapid Response.

Roberta holds a Master degree in International Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and degrees in Philosophy from the University of Bologna (Italy) and the University of Edinburgh. Roberta has worked for over 10 years in the human rights field at international level: she worked with UN-OHCHR and international NGOs in Uganda and Rwanda, as well as with the human rights section of the EU delegation to the UN in Geneva. Before joining ARTICLE 19, Roberta worked in the international department of the Law Society of England and Wales in London. Roberta speaks English, Spanish and Italian, holds a working knowledge of French and elementary knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.

Finance Purchase Ledger Assistant
Finance Purchase Ledger Assistant Finance Team

Terry Warner

Terry Warner

Terry Warner joined ARTICLE 19’s Finance team in May 2020 as the Finance Purchase Ledger Assistant. He is responsible for looking after supplier payments, staff expenses, and bank reconciliations.

Terry’s experience comes from starting out as an office junior in the finance sector. Over the years, he has gained vast experience in sales/purchase ledger and bookkeeping, across various industries including, Media, Retail, and the financial payments sector.

Head of Protection
Head of Protection Law and Policy Team

Paulina Gutierrez

Paulina Gutierrez

Paulina is the former Digital Rights Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America Office. She is an international human rights lawyer and Internet freedom advocate in Latin America. Paulina holds a degree in Law and another one in International Relations, she holds specialisation degrees on privacy, intellectual property and the Inter American Human Rights System. Her professional experience includes twelve years working on human rights policy research, human rights violations legal advisory, freedom of expression and gender issues. During the last four years she designed and developed the digital rights agenda for ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America Regional Office, including innovative approaches to study and exercise Freedom of Expression and Information online. She is also a member of INDELA’s Advisory Board and BENETECH’s Human Rights Program Advisory Board.

Law and Policy Programme Assistant
Law and Policy Programme Assistant Law and Policy Team

Brigitte Andersen

Brigitte Andersen

Brigitte joined ARTICLE 19 in 2023 as the Law and Policy Programme Assistant. She supports the Law and Policy team on legal work, research, and financial and project administration.

Before joining ARTICLE 19, Brigitte interned at PEN America, supporting the Free Expression at Risk team with the research and publication of their inaugural Freedom to Write Index; and Index on Censorship, where she worked with the advocacy and events teams. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Wellesley College.

Legal Officer
Legal Officer Law and Policy Team

Ilaria Fevola

Ilaria Fevola

Ilaria joined ARTICLE 19 in 2019 as legal officer focusing on transparency, the right to information, anti-corruption and sustainable development. She has been a legal researcher for Columbia Global Freedom of Expression covering the case-law of the European regional courts (European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union). Prior to joining Article 19, she gained experience in the field of freedom of expression by working at UNESCO, the Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), the World Association of Newspapers and News publishers (WAN-IFRA) and Oxygen for Information (Ossigeno per l’Informazione).

Ilaria holds a master’s degree in International and European Law from the University of Torino (Italy). She is currently pursuing an LLM in Human Rights Law at the University of London.
Head of Law and Policy for Digital Markets
Head of Law and Policy for Digital Markets Law and Policy Team

Maria Luisa Stasi

Maria Luisa Stasi

Maria Luisa joined ARTICLE 19 in 2018, and since 2022 she leads the law and policy activities concerning digital markets, focusing on the use of economic regulation and competition law and policy to advance the protection of free expression online. Maria Luisa is a competition lawyer by background with expertise in media, telecoms, and internet technologies. Previously, she worked as researcher and project coordinator at the European University Institute, and as associate competition lawyer at Bonelli Erede, one of biggest Italian law firms. She holds a PhD in Law from Tilburg University (the Netherlands), an LLM from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and a Master’s Degee in International Relations from Lumsa University in Rome (Italy).