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Meet the INHR Team - Our Directors
Eric N. Richardson, Geneva
Eric is a lawyer and former diplomat and INHR's Founding President. He served the US Government working in and on China, North Korea, Libya, Tunisia, New Zealand and Israel, and headed the U.S. team at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva from 2013-16. He draws on his education at Stanford and his work as a regulatory attorney in Washington, DC to lead our AI mediation efforts and teaches law at U. Michigan and U. California-Berkeley Law Schools. Eric published his negotiations handbook, The Art of Getting More Back in Diplomacy, in 2021 and speaks Chinese, French and English.
John Sciamanna, New York City
John specializes in children’s policy, economic and social rights, labor, health, and well-being for women and youth. John has more than 30 years’ experience advancing these issues on behalf of non-profit social welfare groups and coalitions, as well as in the United States Congress and state legislatures. Monitoring, advocacy, legislative and regulatory policy, and public affairs are among his specialties. John has drafted hundreds of statements for non-profit clients, including Congressional testimony, legislative agendas, and articles on issues of social welfare. Based in New York, John was a founding INHR director and speaks English and Italian.
T. Kumar, Washington DC
Kumar was Amnesty International's USA Advocacy Director, based in Washington, for more than 20 years until he joined the INHR team as a Senior Human Rights Adviser. A former political prisoner in his native Sri Lanka, Kumar has analyzed and advocated for strong mechanisms to address human rights and humanitarian situations across the globe. His expertise ranges from Afghanistan to Myanmar and he has advocated in Washington, New York and Geneva for mistreated populations, particularly in Asia. Kumar represents INHR on the United States' Atrocity Prevention Task Force.
Jeff Landsman, Chicago
Jeff Landsman has worked as an international buyer for ToysRUs, as a Certified Financial Planner, and as the administrative head of amateur theatre companies, after earning his MBA from the University of Chicago. Jeff is the administrative director of INHR and serves as the organization's Treasurer. He speaks French and English and has worked and traveled in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Senior Advisors
Clement N. Voule, Geneva
Clement completed his mandate as Special Rapporteur for the United Nations on Freedom of Assembly and Association in Summer, 2024 and joined INHR's Geneva team in September. Previously vice-chair of INHR's Advisory Council, Clement will support INHR work on human rights and security sector reform while also continuing on the Advisory Council. A native of Togo and international lawyer, Clement speaks French and English and holds a range of positions in Geneva working on human rights.
Biro Diawara, Geneva
INHR's Senior Adviser on Africa, Biro has been an NGO activist in Geneva for more than 20 years, representing the interests of African civil society, including broadcasters, parliamentarians, religious figures and human rights defenders. He specializes in democracy and trade promotion and interfaith dialogue. A man of many hats, he has affiliations with African delegations and civil society in New York, Geneva and on the continent, including special interest in Sudan, West Africa and his home country, Guinea. Biro is a Swiss citizen and is fluent in French and English.
Jane Galvao, Geneva
Jane is INHR's Resource Mobilization Director and heads our health practice, as our Senior Advisor on Global Health. Jane has more than 20 years experience in managing health programs, focusing on infectious disease, women and children. She has past experience in reproductive health, health systems strengthening and has managed ore than $750 million in program funding for agencies like UNITAID and WHO. Jane writes frequently in her native Brazil, where she holds a PhD in public health and has lived in New York and California, where she did her post-doctoral work at U. California-Berkeley before coming to Geneva. Jane speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Barry O'Sullivan, Ireland
Barry is an award-winning academic working in artificial intelligence. He works as our Senior Technology Advisor, engaging in our workshops on AI and diplomacy. He is founding director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at University College Cork and the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. Barry served as Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI and is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Jack Johnson, Edinburgh
Jack works on our U.S. - China related projects as well as our Comprehensive Drugs Dialogue. He graduated from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, USA with a BA in International Studies and obtained his MA in International Relations from Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Jack has extensive experience working in the charity sector in China with a focus on tackling water scarcity issues in the mountainous regions of China, such as Qinghai and Shanxi. Having grown up in both the UK and China, he is fluent in Mandarin and English. Jack also handles INHR's bookkeeping.
Pedro Chirinos Terrones, Lima
A Peruvian lawyer and graduate of INHR’s student legal advisor program, Pedro joined INHR as a legal advisor in 2023 to help provide greater service in areas of international trade, international competition law and policy, business and human rights, international development, and other issues of legal compliance. Pedro has experience in the Peruvian government in competition law and policy, international trade, antidumping proceedings, human rights, and intellectual property issues and worked as a Student Legal Advisor for the WTO and UNCTAD delegation of the Dominican Republic.
Wesley Chan, Oxford
Wesley is a Hong Kong native and a King’s College London law graduate who is completing his Masters of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and is INHR’s newest AI program officer. Wesley’s interests range from environmental law to human rights with extensive civil society engagement and he leads our work on the nexus of Artificial Intelligence and human rights issues. He speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, English and is studying French.
Artificial Intelligence Advisory Team
In addition to our Senior Technology Advisor Barry O'Sullivan and Director Eric Richardson, the INHR team handling AI issues includes:
- General John (Jack) Shanahan, USAF retired & inaugural director of the Pentagon's Joint AI Center
- Lt. General Ravi S. Panwar, Col. Commandant of the Indian Corps of Signals
- Dr. Iben Yde, Professor of Military Law at the Royal Danish Defense University
These are among 25 experts from the US, China, Asia and Europe who participate in our trilateral dialogues on AI safety, security and governance programs in partnership with entities like CACDA, CNAS, Tsinghua University and Founders Pledge.
INHR's Advisory Council Adds Public and Private Sector Guidance
On June 30, 2022, INHR’s Advisory Council held its inaugural meeting. The Council, chaired by Ms. Paula Schriefer, the President and CEO of the Spring Institute, provides INHR with expert advice on our strategic direction and on enhancing our strong work in humanitarian affairs, human rights, and diplomatic matters.
Joining Ms. Schriefer on the Council are Mr. Clement Voule, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; Ms. Fawzia Koofi, former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Afghanistan; Mr. Joel Millman, former Press Officer with the International Organization for Migration; and Dr. Steve Schlozman, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at U. Vermont Medical School.
INHR is fortunate to benefit from the advice of Advisory Council members with such deep, impressive expertise