Jean Berman, Esq., Executive Director 
Jean Berman joined the International Senior Lawyers Project as Executive Director in September 2001, shortly after the completion of the feasibility study for ISLP. Prior to joining ISLP, Ms. Berman was a Senior Staff Attorney at Lawyers Alliance for New York, where for nearly 18 years she represented nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities, specializing in issues related to nonprofit organizations and the development of affordable housing. Earlier in her legal career, Ms. Berman was associated with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Berle, Butzel, Kass & Case, a New York law firm specializing in environmental law. A graduate of Harvard University and the New York University School of Law, Ms. Berman spent the year 1970-71 in Yugoslavia (Belgrade and Novi Sad) on a Fulbright Scholarship, and spent a year in Switzerland and a year in Russia as a child and teenager.
Email: JBerman(at)islp(dot)org

Katerina Drisi, Esq., Economic Development Program Officer
Katerina Drisi joined ISLP in December 2010 to support its Economic Development Program.  After obtaining her LLB from the National University of Athens, Faculty of Law, she studied Comparative Public Law at the Sorbonne - Paris I (D.E.A. Droit Public Comparé des États Européens) and International Business and Trade Law (LL.M) at Fordham University, New York.  Katerina has been a stagiaire with the Public Procurement Unit, D.G. Internal Market and Services of the European Commission.  Following her internship, she worked as an attorney in privatization contracts, government contracts and concessions of large infrastructure projects in Greece and Eastern Europe.  Prior to joining ISLP, Katerina also gained experience in international commercial contracts as an extern at the General Legal Division of the United Nations.
Email: KDrisi(at)islp(dot)org

Heather Eisenlord, Esq., Human Rights Program Director 
Heather joined ISLP in May 2011 to lead ISLP's human rights program unit.  Her background includes seven years of practice at leading U.S. law firms as well as providing legal support onsite to both an anti-human trafficking NGO in Cambodia and a community-based organization in Uganda that provides quality schooling and other support to children and young people in the Kabale District. Heather received her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and earned a B.A. in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy from Michigan State University. She also participated in a program on post-Soviet legal transition at Moscow State University. 
Email: HEisenlord(at)islp(dot)org

Marie-Claude Jean-Baptiste, Esq., Human Rights Program Officer
In 2008, ISLP added Marie-Claude Jean-Baptiste to the team as Human Rights Program Officer. Marie-Claude  earned a law degree from George Washington University and degrees in International Studies and Political Science from the City College of New York.  Prior to joining ISLP, she interned with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).  She worked with the International Human Rights Clinic at GWU Law School and as a research assistant on comparative criminal procedure laws in new African democracies. 
Email: McJean-Baptiste(at)islp(dot)org

Garth Meintjes, Esq., Associate Executive Director 
Garth came to ISLP in March 2011 from the International Legal Foundation, an organization that develops legal aid programs in post-conflict countries, where he had served as chief operating officer and oversaw the expansion of their programs in Afghanistan and Nepal. Garth was born and raised in South Africa and received his B.A. from the University of Stellenbosch and an LL.B. from the University of Cape Town. As a conscientious objector to compulsory service in the South African Defence Force, he was effectively barred from entering professional legal practice. While teaching constitutional law and criminal law at the University of the Western Cape, he received a scholarship to study international human rights at the Notre Dame Law School. He ended up spending 14 years at Notre Dame, where, as Associate Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, he built the Center into an internationally recognized  human rights institution that brings lawyers from around the world to learn about international human rights and helps them secure jobs or internships in the field after completing the program. At Notre Dame, Garth also wrote and taught in the areas of international law and human rights, particularly on accountability for gross violations of human rights and human rights practice, and received both LL.M and  doctorate degrees. Returning to New York, Garth joined the JEHT Foundation to develop and manage its International Justice Program. 
Email: GMeintjes(at)islp(dot)org

Andra Moss, Director, Communications and Volunteer Development
Andra Moss has been with ISLP since June, 2007 and is responsible for volunteer outreach to senior lawyers and law firms, for pairing volunteers with international pro bono opportunities, and for disseminating information about the work of ISLP and its clients, partners and volunteers. She came to ISLP from the Institute of Management Administration, where she directed programming related to best practices in law firm management, working closely with law firm administrators and managing partners across the country. During a three month sabbatical in 2006, she led a course on volunteerism for the Japanese government-sponsored Ship for World Youth in Kenya and India. She has also headed the volunteer efforts for the Uptown Habitat for Humanity and The Hague Appeal for Peace world peace conference of 1999 and was volunteer coordinator for the Chicago Sister Cities Program. Andra has a BA in International Studies from Miami University and an MS in Human Service Administration and Nonprofit Management from Spertus College in Chicago, Illinois.
Email: AMoss(at)islp(dot)org

Anna Shakarova, Economic Development Program Director 
Anna Shakarova joined ISLP in December 2007. She previously served as a Senior Program Officer at the Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC), where she was responsible for a diverse portfolio of technical assistance projects centered on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) lending for financial services institutions in transition and emerging market countries. During her nine years at FSVC, she held a number of positions managing FSVC’s technical assistance programs with a focus on improving banking systems, capital markets, and legal and regulatory frameworks in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Middle East, and Asia. Anna earned her M.A. from the Samarkand State University and a B.A. from the Marymount Manhattan College. Email: AShakarova(at)islp(dot)org

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Joseph Bell, Volunteer Senior Program Advisor for the Extractive Industries

Natasha Lisman, Volunteer Senior Program Advisor,  ISLP Russia Program

Patrick F. J. Macrory, Manager, Trade Negotiation Training Programs

Patrick F. Murray, Volunteer Senior Program Advisor for Haiti

Keith Watson, Volunteer Senior Program Advisor, Commercial Law Training Programs

Dick Winfield, Volunteer Senior Program Advisor, ISLP Media Law Working Group

Michele O'Brien, Esq., Director, International Senior Lawyers Project- Europe
Email: MObrien(at)islp(dot)org

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