Alexandra Arneri, Chair of the Global Witness Foundation
Alexandra Arneri is a Partner at Cittone Demers & Arneri LLP where she practices commercial litigation and is outside general counsel to media and technology companies. Alexandra has a dedicated pro bono human rights practice, spanning asylum, forced labor, war crimes and other violations of human rights.
Alexandra is a dedicated advocate of human rights, equity and planetary health. She produces and presents the Gravity podcast that covers topics at the intersection of human rights and planetary health and writes an attendant blog providing cultural and legal analysis on related issues.
She is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Apocryphal Pictures, a media company with a focus on diverse and impactful storytelling, and May Kids Transform, a non-profit building emotional resilience in youth through a curriculum of mindfulness, art and yoga.
Alexandra holds an MPA from Harvard, an LLM concentrated in international law from NYU Law School and a BA/LLB from Sydney University.
Leah Hokenson
Leah Hokenson is a Managing Director at Baldwin Brothers, LLC. She has a particular interest in art and advises artists, creatives and collectors on wealth management. She believes that wealth can be used to form a more equitable, conscious world.
She works with families, estates, trusts and foundations to represent their best interests advising on traditional and unique assets.
Leah is a member of the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market, the Professional Advisors Council of Calvary Hospital and the Professional Advisory Council for American Heart Association. She is a member of the NYC Bar Art Law Committee and was a member of the NYC Bar Estate and Gift Tax Committee.
She has lectured for Sotheby’s MFA program, is a volunteer program curator for CUE Teen Collective, and has been a panelist at art and wealth focused events.
Leah received her B.A. from New York University and her J.D. from St. John’s University.
Alex Frank
Alex Frank is the Program Manager for the Bike It Forward team of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. He is also City of Oakland Commissioner for the Oakland Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC), and Director and founder of CampMobility.org, which propels economic growth among displaced populations by supporting cycling as a means of effective and sustainable transportation.
Alex was formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he developed and negotiated the US regulatory position within the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He was also Principal Consultant at Gauge.io, where he developed quantitative models for market research, and Senior Consultant at Oliver Wyman.
Alex has a wide range of expertise in policy, finance and community building, and a passion for Global Witness’ mission areas.
Vidya Viswanathan
Vidya Viswanathan is a seasoned climate and environmental policy expert with over 10 years of experience working in South Asia. Vidya was Program Director of the Centre for Policy Research-Namati Environmental Justice Program. She led research and co-authored policy papers and articles on the efficacy of environmental regulations in protecting ecology and managing social conflicts induced by land use changes on the ground.
She has previously held positions at WWF-India and India’s Ministries of Labour & Employment and Rural Development.
Vidya has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar from India. She was elected Vice President-Climate Action at HKS student government and was selected as a member of the Harvard Climate Leaders Program.
Vidya is passionate about bringing transparency, accountability and robustness in the current governance around corporate and governmental climate commitments globally.