Email: almsosa2@gmail.com

Alan MSOSA is a Malawian expert who completed PhD in Human Rights as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He is an affiliate of the University of Bergen Centre on Law and Social Transformation. He has previously interviewed LGBTQ Malawians to document their experiences of stigma and discrimination. He has previously led an investigations team of a national human rights institution in Malawi, and supported national and international advocacy promoting intersecting issues of minority rights. He has written numerous expert reports about LGBTQI rights in Malawi.

Alan Msosa’s areas of expertise are monitoring and evaluation; strategic planning; research; human rights; HIV and AIDS.

Email: inge.amundsen@cmi.no

Dr Inge Amundsen is a Norwegian political scientist and researcher focussing on political economy, democratisation and human rights. His main country expertise is on Malawi, Bangladesh, Angola, and Nigeria, and his current research topics include parliaments, political parties, political corruption, civil society and informal political engagement.

Amundsen has an extensive experience with Country of Origin reports, with a production of over 130 expert reports for asylum cases, including many appeal cases (by beginning of 2020) for UK, American, Canadian and Dutch solicitors and law firms. He is an expert on human and political rights abuse; opposition and political persecution; political violence; sexual abuse and human trafficking; discrimination of the mentally ill and access to health care; risk of FGM; persecution and social stigma of religious, ethnic and regional minorities including LGBTI+; and the risk of return and of brutal and degrading treatment and torture.

Amundsen also has a long experience in documents authenticity assessments/verifications. 

Please note that Dr Amundsen is not willing to provide his expertise pro bono, except for in a few, non-demanding cases and for NGOs in the ‘global south’.

Email: kdionne@smith.edu

Kim Yi Dionne is a professor of government at Smith College, where she teaches courses on African politics. She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research covers a range of topics, including elections and protests, public opinion, HIV/AIDS interventions, and the politics surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Malawi from 2008-2009.

Email: panglewi@tulane.edu  

Dr Philip Anglewicz has extensive work experience in Malawi. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mzimba, Malawi from 1998-2000, during which time he worked in a local health center and with various community groups.  In 2003, Dr. Anglewicz started a PhD program in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. For his PhD, Dr. Anglewicz worked on two NIH-funded research studies in Malawi, the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) and its predecessor, the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project, or MDICP. Dr. Anglewicz also led a study on internal migration and HIV infection in Malawi, which provided data he later used for his dissertation (completed in 2007). Since finishing his PhD, Dr. Anglewicz continues his active research portfolio in Malawi, and is currently involved in research on rural-to-urban migration and health (funded through an NIH R21 grant).   

Email: swatkins@ccpr.ucla.edu 

Dr Susan Watkins has been conducting research in Malawi since 1998.  She was Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on a longitudinal survey that began in 1998 and ended it 2012; she spent a great deal of time in the rural Malawi in conjunction with implementing this survey, and continued to be present during subsequent smaller research studies.  In addition she initiated an ethnographic study that began in 1999 and is still continuing.  This study trained selected villagers to be participant observers in the villages and to write monthly journals on what they heard and saw. These sources of information about Malawi are complemented by the work of  more than 50 graduate students whom she mentored. The results of these studies – survey, ethnographic, graduate students – have been published in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Watkins reserves the right to ask for remuneration in some cases.