Marcel has worked in Europe, the US, Latin America, Africa and South Asia on projects addressing human rights, conflict prevention and civilian protection. He currently heads the IWPR office in The Hague which oversees the justice programme, including media development and multimedia production and reporting activities in the Balkans, DRC, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya.
Before moving to The Hague, Katy worked as a reporter for Jane's, travelling extensively to analyse the interplay between international defence forces, the weapons trade, and conflict prevention. Before this she was awarded the BBC's Jill Dando Award. At the BBC, she worked as a tri-media reporter and producer, undertaking investigative reports and developing a series of vignettes for TV. She has also worked as an embedded reporter on NATO warships, and won an award to develop an interactive travel website for those in pursuit of adventure.
Simon is an experienced journalist in print and radio based in The Hague. He has reported extensively on war crimes trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court as well as the conflicts in Sudan, Uganda and DRC. He manages the IWPR Facing Justice programme in Uganda as well as its sister production, On the Scale, aired in Darfur. Simon has a master’s in anthropology and a postgraduate diploma in journalism. He has worked extensively as a humanitarian in refugee camps in northern Uganda.
Mélanie is the producer of IWPR's Face a la Justice, a radio programme on justice and human rights, broadcast in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Additionally, she coordinates multi-media production around the programme. She has also reported on international justice issues for IWPR from the Institute’s office in The Hague. Prior to IWPR, Mélanie worked briefly for ABCnews in New York and Liberation in Paris. She gained a masters degree in journalism at City University and before that studied politics and eastern European studies at University College, in London.
Robbert van de Waerdt has worked in Uganda, France, Tunisia and the Netherlands in various positions related to administrative, programme, educational and financial services for NGOs, UN and media organisations. He has a master’s degree in economics and development studies. As a finance and administration officer, he oversees the financial administration of the IWPR office in The Hague as well as projects in the Balkans, DRC, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya.
