Allan joined Just Fair Board of Trustees in October 2023.

Allan has over 25 years’ experience working on human rights. He has campaigned and advocated on a wide range of human rights issues both globally and nationally, including business and human rights, asylum and immigration, anti-racism and housing and homelessness.  As an experienced campaigner and advocate he has participated in high level panels, meetings with senior politicians and media work. He is Head of Government and Political Relations at Amnesty International UK.

He has a BSc in Social Sciences from City University, London, and an MSc Global Politics from Birkbeck, University of London. He is interested in demystifying human rights, making them accessible, learning from, and working with those with lived experience to press for economic, social, and cultural rights to be made a reality. Allan is currently on sabbatical and is spending time volunteering with local organisations and activists.

John Powlton joined Just Fair in November 2021 as Honorary Treasurer. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds degrees in Economics & Politics from the University of Sheffield and Real Estate Investment & Finance from Heriot-Watt University. John has worked in finance, specialising in the taxation of real estate investment, since 2003 including time spent with a large professional services firm, a sovereign wealth fund and a large asset management business. John participates in a number of industry bodies focussed on the property industry and as part of this regularly works with government agencies to provide input to new and proposed legislation. John has lived and worked in a variety of countries around the world with very different cultural and political environments, and this experience, alongside a period of voluntary work in a rural region of sub-Saharan Africa, highlighted to him the importance of the championing of economic, social and cultural rights for people both internationally and domestically, hence seeking to get involved in the work of Just Fair.

Lianna works for the RSA, a national charity focused on social impact. Having previously worked with Campaign for Better Transport; London CLT and Transport for All, Lianna has campaigned on issues including housing justice, environment, and disability rights. She has been involved in legal approaches to issues including part-time season tickets and gender; and disabled people’s access to goods and services. 

Lianna holds a Masters in Community Organising from Queen Mary University. She is particularly interested in how legal approaches to strategic campaigning can be better understood and used more widely by those directly affected by economic and social injustices. 

Dr Katie Boyle is a qualified constitutional and human rights lawyer and Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Stirling. She has published extensively on economic and social rights law and served as Expert Advisor to NGOs, governments, parliaments and the United Nations. Her recent book, “Economic and Social Rights Law: Incorporation, Justiciability and Principles of Adjudication” (2020), features as part of the International Association of Constitutional Law Emerging Scholarship Series, (available at https://bit.ly/2Nf32zw ). 

Dr Boyle has worked nationally and internationally on economic and social rights during periods of constitutional transition including work funded by the British Academy in Colombia and Brazil. Her work has featured in reporting procedures to the UN and she has worked with national human rights institutions, including with the Scottish Human Rights Commission on a project exploring the incorporation of international human rights law in Scotland. In 2018 Dr Boyle was appointed as an expert on the First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership. The group’s remit was to consider how Scotland can be an international leader in human rights and its recommendations to incorporate economic, social, cultural and environmental rights are being implemented by a National Task Force. Dr Boyle now advises the National Task Force as a member of the Academic Advisory Panel. Other recent expert appointments include Scotland’s UNCRC Incorporation Advisory Group and working with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing on access to justice issues.  

Armin joined the Just Fair Board of Trustees in October 2019.

Having previously worked with Liberty and the National Centre for Domestic Violence, Armin studied law before embarking on a career in academia and public law.

As a researcher at Doughty Street Chambers and City University, Armin focused on international criminal law and joins Just Fair as a committed advocate for social justice and economic and social rights in the UK.

Mary-Ann is the director of the Women’s Budget Group and has worked for women’s equality and human rights for over twenty years as a campaigner, researcher and trainer. She was previously Director of the Fawcett Society and a Commissioner on the Women’s National Commission. Mary-Ann is a founder member of Coventry Women’s Voices and a board member at Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre. She has a PhD in Law from the University of Warwick.