International Board of Trustees

Robert P. “Bob” Latham has had a distinguished career spanning three decades, as a trial lawyer with recognized expertise in the areas of media law and intellectual property litigation. He is currently a Partner and Chair of Jackson Walker L.L.P.’s media law practice group, and his trial practice also involves complex commercial disputes, international, and class actions. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Virginia Law School.

In addition to his practice at Jackson Walker, Bob serves on the International Board of ARTICLE 19 and the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law. He is also a former president of the Defense Counsel Section of the Media Law Resource Center.

Bob has served on the Executive Committee of World Rugby for seven years, and chairs the World Rugby Regulations Committee.  He is a former Chairman of the Board of USA Rugby as well as a former President of Rugby Americas North. Bob is also a published author and columnist, and a much sought-after speaker nationally and internationally. He has spoken on matters related to the rights of free speech, technology and intellectual property litigation, advocacy and litigation strategy, dispute resolution and sports – from Antwerp to Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro to Glasgow, and Melbourne to Yangzhou.

Bob also sits on the Major Gifts Committee of the International Board.

Lucia Nader is a political scientist with expertise in the field of democracy, social change, and human rights. 

A seasoned consultant and facilitator and the author of several articles on social entrepreneurship, she has been researching and working with activists, NGOs and donors for more than 25 years. She is former Executive Director of the Brazil-based organisation Conectas Human Rights, and led on its Foreign Policy and Human Rights Program, with a focus on south-south relations. 

Recently she has focused on strengthening institutional processes, and fostering individual and collective care and protection within organisations. She facilitates team-building, governance and strategic planning, as well as collaborative research initiatives. Her current PhD research at the Institute for Development Studies – University of Sussex focuses on regenerative activism, looking at the benefits of renewal, restoration and revitalisation at individual, organisational and movement levels.

Lucia was a visiting scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice – CHGRJ (New York University) and at the Institute for Latin American Studies – ILAS (Columbia University) in 2017 and 2018. From 2015 and 2016, she was a fellow with the Open Society Foundations Fellowship Program investigating ‘Solid Organizations in a Liquid World’.

She holds a postgraduate degree from Sciences-Po (Paris, France) and a Bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Ashoka, an organisation supporting entrepreneurs and organisations that provide solutions to social problems, recognised her work in 2009. Lucia is fluent in Portuguese, French, English and Spanish. 

Aparna Ravi is a corporate and finance lawyer with nearly two decades of experience, having practiced law in New York, London and India.  She is currently based in New Delhi, where she is a Partner at Samvad Partners Advocates, a pan-Indian, full-service law firm. In addition to representing clients in financing, mergers and acquisitions, and investment transactions, Aparna regularly advices a number of corporate clients on corporate governance issues as well on compliance and advisory matters, including implementing policies to make working places safer.

Aparna has also worked with a legal not-for-profit organization in Bangalore, India where she was involved in research and litigation on women’s rights and the right to education, and has been a visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.  Aparna was a member of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee constituted by the Indian Government that prepared the initial draft of the new legislation and continues to research and write widely on insolvency law reform in India.

Aparna also has a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from New York University School of Law (2003) and a Bachelor degree in Government from Harvard University (2000). She is qualified to practice law in India and in New York.

Javier Garza Ramos is a journalist based in Torreón (northern Mexico) where he founded and heads EnRe2Laguna, a local news platform on radio and social media. He also co-hosts Expansión Daily, one of the most popular news podcasts in México.

For the past 15 years, he has also worked in journalist protection and press freedom issues. As editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón, he led a newsroom that came under fire from drug cartels operating in his city, and developed safety protocols that are now used by newsrooms in several countries.

He is a contributor in El País and The Washington Post and writes about journalism in Latin America for Harvard University’s Nieman Reports.. Garza was also a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists focusing on digital security. Formerly a chair of Article19’s Mexico and Central America affiliate, he is also on the board of the World Editors Forum, and has given conferences and workshops on press freedom, media development and journalist safety in several countries.

He has a Bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2022 he received a Special Citation of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalism in the Americas given by Columbia University.