Andrew Puddephatt

Andrew Puddephatt is a director of Global Partners and Associates in the UK, an organization that promotes democracy, good governance and human rights globally. He has worked on human rights for 20 years and often focuses on the role of media in society and in implementing human rights. Andrew was executive director of Article 19 from January 1999 to October 2004. He has been an expert member of both the Council of Europe and the Commonwealth Expert working groups on freedom of information and freedom of expression. He is the vice-chair of International Media Support, a Danish-based NGO that provides emergency support to journalists in conflict areas. He is also a member of the International Steering Committee for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina database, a Norwegian-based project that documents the history of censorship in the world and an international board member of the Open Democracy Centre in South Africa.