Poonam Joshi

Poonam Joshi joined the Fund for Global Human Rights as the Director of London Office in December 2012. Prior to joining the Fund, Poonam worked as a consultant to the Sigrid Rausing Trust, where she was Acting Director of the Women’s Rights program and from March 2011 developed the Trust’s new grant-making strategy for the Middle East and North Africa. She also worked for seven years with Amnesty International UK’s women’s rights program, where she represented AIUK as a gender expert on a range of issues including political participation in Egypt and Libya; human trafficking in the UK; religious fundamentalism and counter terrorism. Poonam has practiced family and criminal law in London. She earned a BA in English from Oxford University and a Masters in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.