Our multi-disciplinary team has expertise in all areas related to the prevention of torture and works out of our secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. We have a national representative in Brazil and three consultants based in Australia, Spain and Mexico.

Barbara Bernath
SECRETARY GENERAL
Audrey Olivier Muralt
DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL
Sandra Andenmatten
FINANCE MANAGER
Ben Buckland
SENIOR ADVISER, OVERSIGHT AND LEARNING DEVELOPMENT
Sylvia Dias
NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, SENIOR LEGAL ADVISER, BRAZIL
Catherine Felder
OFFICE AND SUPPORT MANAGER
Veronica Filippeschi
SENIOR ADVISER, VULNERABILITIES AND POLICY
Cécile Trochu Grasso
FUNDRAISING MANAGER
Shazeera Zawawi
SENIOR ADVISER, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
James Iliffe
SENIOR ADVISER, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
Sara Vera López
APT ADVISER, LATIN AMERICA & OVERSIGHT
Manachaya Yankittikul
REGIONAL PROJECT OFFICER (BANGKOK)

Manachaya Yankittikul is a Thai human rights lawyer. She holds an LL.B from Chulalongkorn University majoring in international law and an LL.M in public international law from Leiden University. Before joining APT, she was the Protection and Paralegal Programme Officer at Asylum Access Thailand. She also has previously worked at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Committee of the Red Cross, Delegation of the European Union to Thailand, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.