Joanna Oyediran is a program manager for South Sudan and Sudan at the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA). OSIEA promotes citizens’ participation in governance in Eastern Africa, focusing its support on local groups. Joanna previously worked as a Senior Human Rights Officer with the United Nations (UN)/African Union (AU) Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Sudan and with the UN Mission in Sudan. She has also worked as a researcher for Amnesty International, where she researched and wrote reports on human rights Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Iraq. She has also served as a Human Rights Officer for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Gaza and as a consultant on Darfur for the Ford Foundation. She is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex.