The Advisory Board

The Real Cost of Debt Advisory Board is responsible for editorial oversight of the individual debt stories along with the final report, helping maintain the direction of the project and alignment with our core values: a non-extractive collaboration, which is decolonial and feminist.

The members of the Advisory Board were invited based on their professional and activist profile, experience with the debt justice movement and their alignment with a non-extractivist working model. Additionally, it was important to have strong Global South representation.

Members

In alphabetical order by organisation:

  • Catherine Mithia, African Network on Debt and Development (Afrodad)
  • Mae Buenaventura, Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)
  • Zainab Shumail, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
  • Tess Woolfenden, Debt Justice
  • Daniela Berdeja Ruíz, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Economic, Social and Climate Justice (Latindadd)
  • Shereen Talaat, MENA Fem Movement For Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice
  • Anna Celma, Debt Observatory in Globalisation (ODG)
  • Lurit Yugusuk, Youth for Tax Justice Network
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