Staff and consultantsThe Executive Director chairs a Programme Management Group of subject experts who provide the leadership for our programmes of work. This group is supported by project and administrative staff, some of whom make up a Business Development Committee chaired by the Deputy Director. Each of our programmes of work are also supported by advisory groups made up of eminent international experts from outside ORG. We are further assisted in our work by temporary graduate interns who work alongside us for 6-month periods.
Professor Oliver Ramsbotham, Chair of ORG's Board of Trustees, is also a member of the Programme Management Group. Hamit Dardagan became ORG’s Consultant on Civilian Casualties in War in March 2007. He is co-founder and principal researcher at Iraq Body Count, where he has made an in-depth study of the research methods of Professor Marc Herold, who pioneered a media-based methodology for estimating civilian deaths in the Afghan war during 2001-02. He has written for Counterpunch, and has undertaken research for a number of organisations, including Greenpeace. He has been chair of Kalayaan a human rights campaign for overseas domestic workers in the UK, which led to significant enhancement in their legal rights.
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John Sloboda has been Executive Director
of Oxford Research Group since January 2004. He is also Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Keele, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2003, he has been co-director of the 
Chris Abbott is the Deputy Director
of Oxford Research Group and an Honorary Research Fellow of the 
Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at the University
of Bradford, and Global Security Consultant to Oxford
Research Group. Professor Rogers has worked in the field of international
security, arms control and political violence for over 30 years. He
lectures at universities and defence colleges in several countries
and has written or edited 26 books, including Global Security and the War on Terror:
Elite Power and the Illusion of Control (Routledge, 2008)
and Why We're Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2008). He writes monthly briefings analysing
the international security situation for the Oxford Research Group
website and since October 2001 has written a series of ORG Briefing
Papers on international security and the 'war on terror', including
Endless War: The Global War on Terror and the New Bush Administration
(March 2005) and Iran: Consequences of a War (February
2006). Paul is also a regular commentator on global security issues
in both the national and international media, and is 
Gabrielle Rifkind is Human Security Consultant
to Oxford Research Group and directs our 
Fiona Harrison is ORG’s Fundraiser.
She has worked in the international human rights and development sector
since 1992, most recently as Deputy Director and Head of Fundraising
at Minority Rights Group International. Previously she has been Executive
Director of Women’s Health as well as Director of the Europe
Programme at ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression.
She also works as a consultant to the international human rights sector
providing strategy development, fundraising and management consultancy
for clients such as the Council of Europe, the Open Society Institute,
the AIRE Centre, Minority Rights Group International and the disability
charity, Leonard Cheshire. Fiona has an LLM in International Human
Rights Law from the University of Essex and a BA in French, German
and Linguistics. She joined ORG in March 2007. 
Andy Roberts is ORG’s Office Administrator.
He has a degree in Social & Political Science, an M.Phil in Town
Planning, and a Certificate in Industrial Relations & Trade Union
Studies. He has worked for a range of local and national civil society
organisations over 25 years, including Socialist Environment &
Resources Association, London Hazards Centre, Waterloo Community Development
Group, European Nuclear Disarmament, New Economics Foundation, Helsinki
Citizens Assembly, Consumers International, and European Dialogue.
He has worked extensively in Central & Eastern Europe and the
Balkans. He is also active in campaigning on local community issues.
His interests include the role of civil society in bringing about
progressive social and economic change; minority rights; and corporate
social responsibility.
Thomas Phipps joined ORG as an Intern in September 2008, working primarily on the 
Frank Barnaby is Emeritus Consultant
to Oxford Research Group. He is a nuclear physicist by training and worked at the Atomic Weapons
Research Establishment, Aldermaston between 1951-57. He was on the senior
scientific staff of the Medical Research Council when a university lecturer
at University College London (1957-67). He was Executive Secretary of
the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the late 1960s
and Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) from 1971-81. He was a Professor at the Free University, Amsterdam
(1981-85) and Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1985.
From 1982-2007, he was the Nuclear Issues Consultant for Oxford Research Group.
He is now a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military
technology.
Rosie Houldsworth has been ORG's Honorary Archivist
and Historian since September 2007, but has been associated
with ORG since its foundation in 1982. She has played a leading role
in developing and maintaining ORG's strong network of nuclear decision-makers
and international experts. Trained as a linguist and in the humanities,
she is particularly interested in the human relationship aspect of
political change, and has been involved in developing and supporting
ORG's work to facilitate face-to-face 