Charmian gooch biography of william

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Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Gooch's involvement with Global Witness has earned her and the organisation a variety of awards and nominations. Born in , Gooch is a self-confessed "lifelong troublemaker. In , Gooch graduated from the University of Wales , Aberystwyth , where she studied history and immediately pursued to look for a job after graduation.

Investigations regarding black markets dealing with ivory in the Middle East and Hong Kong also helped her learn about corporate structures and how money moves around. Global Witness is a British non-governmental organisation based out of London, England. With the financial backing of hedge-fund billionaire George Soros , the organisation fulfills a watchdog function, and has led a variety of campaigns and investigations aimed at uncovering a global architecture of conflict and corruption, that some have suggested is "woven into" [ 4 ] the business of extracting and exploiting natural resources.

Using extensive knowledge on how shady businesses and governments inter-operate with each other, Gooch and Global Witness have unveiled various sources of corruption and exploitation and continue to do so. Concerns over the funding of covert warfare through illegal trade had increased at the time. Gooch co-founded Global Witness in with Taylor and Alley to expose the "nexus of corruption, natural resources, and conflict".

At its inception, Gooch and her co-founders solicited donations at London Underground station entrances due to a lack of funding sources. Eventually, a Dutch charity known as Oxfam Novib provided the trio with enough money to start their first major campaign on the Cambodia-Thailand frontier. This also became a starting point for them to "build their activism on facts they collected themselves in the field.

In January and February , Gooch and Global Witness undertook an investigation regarding the illegal trade of timber in both Thailand and Cambodia , which was largely responsible for funding the civil war in Cambodia. Posing as timber buyers, Gooch and her team visited logging camps to study how a Cambodian communist insurgency known as the Khmer Rouge was "collaborating with Thai interests to cut down hardwood forests in violation of a United Nations ban.

Charmian gooch biography of william

The international pressure that followed as a result of the report forced Cambodia to introduce a timber export ban in May that significantly reduced Thai trading with the Khmer Rouge and effectively closed the Cambodian border to further Thai timber imports. In the late s, the sale of diamonds to fund wars in countries such as Angola , Liberia , the Democratic Republic of Congo , and Sierra Leone had resulted in the death and displacement of millions of people.

In , Gooch travelled to Angola to investigate how militants were mining diamonds to prolong a civil war that had started in the s. She shoved a would-be-mugger down a flight of stairs while gathering information about the diamond supply chain from government officials and businessmen in the Angolan capital of Luanda and in the diamond-trading centre of Antwerp , Belgium , earning her a reputation for toughness.

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Mr Jones was an inspiring teacher and we all got on every well and we are all still good friends.