Global Advocacy Team spokespeople
The Sightsavers Global Advocacy Team spokespeople are all Sightsavers staff members with special expertise in one of the areas that we work in.
Based in Sightsavers offices across Europe, Africa and Asia, the Global Advocacy team can provide insight and in-depth knowledge to the media on issues they encounter daily in their lives and work.
Between them, members of the team can speak on a wide variety of topics including the full range of health issues Sightsavers deals with such as eye health, neglected tropical diseases, and human resource development.
Other members of the team can speak on issues that affect visually impaired people and our development work, including inclusive education, social inclusion, community development, and climate change.
Please contact press@sightsavers.org if you would like to speak to one of the members of the Global Advocacy Team.
Adelaide Addo-Fening
A spokesperson for international development issues, Adelaide has worked at Sightsavers since 2009 and holds an OBE.
Agatha Aboe
Agatha is an ophthalmologist and spokesperson for neglected tropical diseases, with a special focus on trachoma.
Joyce Ashun
Inspired by family members who are blind, Joyce joined Sightsavers in 2010 and is a spokesperson for inclusive education.
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame
Gertrude is a long term advocate for disability rights and social inclusion, and as a blind person, can speak on these topics from a personal perspective.
Dominic Haslam
Dominic is a spokesperson for the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 agenda, international development, and climate change.
Elaine Ireland
Elaine has worked in international development for over 10 years and is a spokesperson for development issues and the Millennium Development Goals.
Ketan Kothari
Ketan is a blind person himself and has worked in the area of blindness and disability since 1993. He is spokesperson for social inclusion for people with disabilities.
Elizabeth Kurian
Elizabeth Sightsavers Regional Director for India and is a spokesperson for eye and general health.
Joseph Oye
Joseph is a public health ophthalmologist and a spokesperson for international development issues with a special focus on the Millennium Development Goals.
Munazza Gillani
Munazza works for Sightsavers in Pakistan and has a special interest in social inclusion for people with disabilities.
Prabhat Sinha
Prabhat has worked for Sightsavers since 2004 and is well versed in the issues surrounding Sightsavers work on inclusive education.
Ronnie Graham
Ronnie has worked for Sightsavers for over 10 years, and now works on human resource development and health systems to increase the numbers of qualified eye health workers in the countries that we work in.
Simon Bush
Simon leads Sightsavers global advocacy work and is passionate about international development issues and eradicating neglected tropical diseases.
Sunit Bagree
Sunit is a policy advisor for Sightsavers on inclusive education for people with disabilities.
Sunday Isyiaku
Sunday is country director for Sightsavers in Nigeria, and is well versed and very involved in our work against neglected tropical diseases.
Wahidul Islam
Wahidul is a medical doctor and country director of Sightsavers in Bangladesh. He is well versed in the ways that climate change can affect development and can speak from personal experience of his work in Bangladesh.
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