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David Seddon - specialist in politics and human rights especially in Franco-phone and Arabic- speaking Africa and the Middle East - experience of expert reports especially on subject of social/ethnic/political groups at risk of persecution, brutal and degrading treatment and torture. criticalfaculty1@hotmail.co.uk tel 01379669109 (answer phone),07718 122 245 (mobile).
The Expert is a bi-lingual (English and French) independent investigative journalist and researcher with seventeen years experience of covering politics, migration, religious affairs, extremism, development and human rights issues, LGBTQ issues, corruption and economics in west Africa. She has worked for international outlets such as Bloomberg, Reuters, the New York Times and the Sunday Times, and has a degree from the School of Oriental Studies in sub-Saharan African religious studies. She has worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Control Risks and other global risk consultancies, conducting hundreds of investigations into religious extremism, financial misconduct, political manipulation and subsequent human rights and development issues.
Dr Chris Smith has completed over 2,000 expert witness reports on Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan since 2005, primarily for the UK courts but also in Australia, Canada and the USA.
Most recent one month research visit to Northern Sri Lanka in March 2019 (Northern and Eastern Provinces). Will visit again later in 2019 for Country Guidance research.
Oral expert evidence in all recent Sri Lankan Country Guidance cases from LP to GJ and Others. Commissioned for forthcoming CG on sur place activities.
Also, India, especially Tamil Nadu and Khalistan and LGBTQ. Research visits to India and Pakistan are planned for early-2020.
Extensive field work and publications record in India from 1983, including PhD on India’s defence industry and security sector (1988) and two year tenure at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies/United Nations University (Delhi) (1983-85).
Expert witness research trip planned for early-2020 (Chandigarh, Delhi, Chennai etc). Focus upon LGBTQ, anti-terrorist operations, security sector,
Also, extensive fieldwork on Pakistan, especially illegal weapons proliferation, security sector, governance, human rights. Further field research on Ahmadi, Christian, LGBTQ planned for early-2009.