I have worked on human rights and gender issues in Brazil and Latin America for the last thirty years, including working as Brazil researcher at Amnesty International and running a programme on human rights in Brazil at the University of Oxford. I specialise now in Brazil, in the areas of politics, gender rights, human rights, crime, violence and criminal justice system reform. I have been working over the last five years developing a training programme and manual for the Brazilian police on gender-based violence, in conjunction with the Brazilian Forum for Public Security. I am doing a similar, smaller project for Plan International I am currently researching how the Brazilian state, and especially police, have been responding to the challenge of domestic violence and feminicide with new, more effective practices. I am also working on the issues of why prison reform has been so difficult to achieve in Brazil, and looking at why so many police officers were elected to legislative positions in 2018. I have also carried out consultancies in Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Colombia and Tajikistan, and written expert reports. I have a lot of media experience. I speak native level Portuguese, very good Spanish, and reasonable French and German (my passive understanding in those two is higher, with excellent reading in French and reasonable in German)