We currently have eight trustees. Trustees hold quartely meetings and work closely with LMN workers and the network.
Anca Giurgiu is from Romania and is a co-founder of the LMN member group Environmental and Social Change, a diaspora group based in London which works on issues such as mining, fracking, deforestation, social justice and climate change. Anca has been involved since 2005 in the Save Rosia Montana campaign (Romanian’s biggest environmental and social movement against the development of the largest gold mine project in Europe) and has worked on campaigns to ban cyanide mining in Europe and Romania together with Mining Watch Romania and Alburnus Maior. She specialises in community organising and using creative methods and collective artworks in campaigns against destructive mining. She currently coordinates the Climate Change Team for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and works with vulnerable and deprived communities in London, developing climate change and fuel poverty initiatives and community owned energy projects which puts power in the hands of people and communities at the heart of the energy system. She has been part of LMN since 2015 and sat on LMN’s Advisory Committee before becoming a trustee in June 2019.
Andrew Hickman is a specialist on Indonesia. He worked as a researcher for Amnesty International before working for several years for Down to Earth, the campaign for ecological justice in Indonesia. Down to Earth was a founder member group of London Mining Network but was wound up in 2016. He is now a trustee of TAPOL, the Indonesian human rights organisation, which is also a founder member group of London Mining Network. He has lived in Indonesia and has specialised in the impacts of extractive projects on human rights, particularly researching the operations of London-listed BHP, Bumi in Kalimantan and BP and Rio Tinto in West Papua. He is currently working on a project to establish relationships with communities directly affected by the Grasberg mine in West Papua.
Dorothy Guerrero is a Philippine-born climate and energy justice advocate with a background in anti-dictatorship movements in her country as well as in the Asian region and global trade, debt justice and social justice movements. As author, public speaker, broadcast media spokesperson, national and international event organiser, political educator and networker, all her previous posts merge over three decades of dedication to social transformation. Her other thematic interests are China’s rise and BRICS and migration. She holds a Masters Degree in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands. She is Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of London Mining Network and a Consultant at WoMin Africa Alliance’s Women Building Power for Energy and Climate Justice Programme. WoMin is a Pan African ecofeminist alliance that partners with women and communities impacted by large-scale mining and extractive industries.
Francis Okeke studied law at the University of Southampton and at SOAS University of London. He has experience in commercial and corporate law, international arbitration and regulatory compliance. He has taken an interest in the human rights impacts of corporate mining and in developing work on mining finance. He has served as an LMN trustee since autumn 2020.
Patrick Scott has taken an interest in mining issues since the 1990s when he became involved with the Minewatch Collective (which ceased to operate in the late 1990s) and has a particular interest in mining in the Horn of Africa. He acted as LMN’s Treasurer in its early years before a Finance Worker was appointed in 2012. Patrick has postgraduate degrees from London Guildhall University in Politics (MA) and from London Metropolitan University in Human Rights (LLM) and Labour and Trade Union Studies (MRes). He has had a varied work history which has included working as an Adult Education Tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association.
Peter Frankental is Economic Affairs Programme Director for Amnesty International UK, an associate member group of LMN. He joined Amnesty in 1998. Peter has been an adviser to the International Commission of Jurists panel on corporate complicity, and was on the Steering Group of a three-year research project (2004-2007) to develop a methodology for human rights impact assessments and apply it to five case studies of affected communities. Peter has undertaken research on UK Export Finance and on the UK National Contact Point’s handling of human rights complaints. He is a founding trustee of an organisation that takes music-making into immigration detention centres to release the words, music and life stories of the people held inside.
Sue Willman is a lecturer and supervising solicitor at King’s Legal Clinic, King’s College, London where she established a human rights and environmental Law Clinic. For example she has collaborated with LMN network member, Earththrive to bring a complaint against a British mining company in Serbia from a Rights of Nature perspective. She has collaborated with LMN in relation to cases on behalf of communities affected by human and environmental violations caused by mining companies, most notably by Cerrejon in northern Colombia. She has also supported a community affected by tin mining in Cornwall. She is also promoting law reform on the right to a healthy environment and working on climate change in India. Sue is also a part time solicitor/consultant at law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn. There she mostly acts in litigation for refugees against the Home Office, but also in relation to ‘business and human rights’ and international human rights cases. She is a former chair of the Colombia Caravana lawyers group. Fortuitously, that work led her to collaborate with LMN during the past decade.
Terry Blackman spent his professional career in public sector accounting and joined LMN in 2017 as volunteer treasurer. He has experience in reviewing the finance and governance arrangements of major local government and health bodies. Since joining LMN, he has developed a particular interest in how mining companies account for the damage they have done and the cost of putting it right, and related matters such as the finances of trusts set up in response to major disasters.