James is a founding co-director of FairSquare, and is based in London. He specialises in human rights research and advocacy on the Middle East and North Africa, including in support of political prisoners and victims of arbitrary detention.

James previously worked at Amnesty International for seven years, where his roles included managing the organization’s work on migrant labour, business and human rights, arms control and the death penalty. He led Amnesty’s research and campaigning on the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and was also the Middle East deputy director.

Before that James worked for the UK Foreign Office, where his roles included head of the Gulf team and political officer at the British Embassy in Doha. He writes about human rights and western foreign policy for the European Council on Foreign Relations, and was a contributing author to What Next for Britain in the Middle East?

He has a Masters in International Politics from SOAS, University of London.

Nicholas is a founding co-director of FairSquare, based in France. He is a leading advocate on migrant workers’ rights and sport.

Nick was a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch for five years, where he conducted research and advocacy on a wide range of rights issues, including work on abuses in agricultural supply chains and heat-related deaths in the construction sector.

He has a PhD in the international law on slavery, forced labour and human trafficking and has written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and VICE. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Development.

Susie is Operations Manager at FairSquare and is responsible for all operational aspects of the organisation as well as providing support to individual projects.

Susie has a background in law and is admitted as an attorney in Botswana where she previously worked for a human rights NGO.

She has a Postgraduate Diploma in NGO Management and also consults for other nonprofits. She is based in the UK.

Alex is a Human Rights Coordinator for FairSquare, carrying out research and advocacy in the UK in relation to political prisoners and freedom of expression in Egypt and the Gulf.

Alex gained experience in human rights advocacy as a Research and Advocacy Associate at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) where he focused on Human Rights and UK Foreign Policy in Bahrain, political prisoners, and sportswashing. Prior to this, Alex held multiple roles at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, working on campaigns including the relationship between climate breakdown and potential nuclear conflict.

Alex holds an MSc in Comparative Political Thought from SOAS, University of London.