Andrew Puddephatt

Andrew Puddephatt
Member of	European Council on Foreign Relations, Sigrid Rausing Trust
British human rights campaigner sitting on the board of multiple NGOs close to the deep state  Executive Chair In office June 2016 - Present Employer Global Partners Digital  Board Chairman In office January 2011 - Present Employer International Media Support  Management Committee Member In office January 2007 - Present Employer European Council on Foreign Relations  Company Director In office November 2004 - March 2013 Employer Global Partners & Associates Ltd  Executive Director In office January 1999 - October 2004 Employer ARTICLE 19  Director In office October 1995 - January 1999 Employer Charter88 Preceded by Anthony Barnett Succeeded by Chris Bird  General Secretary In office 1989 - 1995 Employer Liberty  Deputy Chair Dates unknown Employer Sigrid Rausing Trust

Andrew Puddephatt is a British campaigner for human rights. He sits on the board of multiple NGOs close to the deep state.

He is member of the Management Committe of George Soros' European Council on Foreign Relations, chair of the Internet Watch Foundation which works with companies to remove illegal images of children being sexually abused online, Deputy Chair of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and Executive Chair of Global Partners Digital.

He is also Chair of International Media Support, a Danish-based NGO that "supports journalists in conflict areas".

Campaigning

From October 2004 to April 2008, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. Prior to that he was Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, the international human rights organisation that promotes freedom of expression.

Andrew Puddephatt has been an expert member of both the Council of Europe and Commonwealth expert working groups on freedom of information and freedom of expression. He is also a member of 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 openDemocracy Centre in South Africa.

Between October 1995 and January 1999 he was Director of Charter88 which was the UK's leading constitutional reform organisation. Between 1989 and 1995 he was General Secretary of Liberty (aka the National Council for Civil Liberties). In both capacities he played a leading role in securing a Bill of Rights for the UK. This was agreed in 1998 after eight years campaigning and took effect in October 2000.

International Media Support (IMT), where he is Board Chairman, is funded by the Scandinavian governments and finances media outlets in the Global South. For example, in Syria, a target since 2011 for a NATO regime change, IMT supports "independent Syrian media" based and produced in Turkey and distributed back across the border in Syria as well as among Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries. The financed outlets also "shared news on Syria with a foreign audience", meaning that a media outlet financed by spooky Western NGOs produces stories that can then be spread back to Western audiences, without the real backers being obvious. Other sponsor working in tandem with IMT include the CIA-cutout National Endowment for Democracy and the spooky NGO Norwegian People’s Aid.

Other of Puddephatt's projects include a paper on China’s impact on the global internet for the Ford Foundation and a policy paper for UNESCO in Latin America on "how to deal with social media during elections".

Honours

In January 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to human rights.

Publications

• 'Legislating Liberty: The Case for A Bill of Rights' - Journal of Legislative Studies - edited Professor Phillip Norton, Hull University; Volume 1 1996
• 'Incorporating the European Convention on Human rights' Published in Human Rights: an agenda for the 21st Century edited by Angela Hegarty and Siobhan Leonard, Cavendish Publishing Ltd 1999
• Freedom of expression, Association and Assembly published by the Commonwealth Secretariat August 2003
• Post conflict intervention working paper produced for UNESCO and Swedish Development Agency May 2003
• The Right to Information - Practical Guidance note - UNDP July 2004

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