Diane Stewart presently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of PILnet.

Diane is an attorney, a private company investor and advisor, and a fiduciary. She has her own legal consultancy based in London specializing in corporate finance transactions and general counsel services to private US and international companies and to private equity investors. As an investor, she is a venture partner in early-stage UK-based investment group Ascension Ventures and focuses on investing in women founders and socially impactful for-profit ventures. In her earlier career she was a corporate transactional attorney and partner with Coudert Brothers in its San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore offices, and she was Director of Strategic M&A Development for the Norwegian telecom Telenor in Southeast Asia.

Diane serves on the Advisory Councils of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and on the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, both at Stanford University. She co-founded the Stanford Women’s Network UK in 2013 to facilitate the creation of a women’s professional and personal support network, and she remains active as co-president. Her other non-profit board and trustee roles presently include with the American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the UK Friends of the Science Museum. Diane received her BA from Stanford University and her JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and she has a post-graduate Diploma from the University of Oxford SAÏD Business School.

Dr. Awmaima Amrayaf is a Senior Impact Adviser at DLA Piper, based in the firm’s London office. She previously served as a Board Member of the Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust and is currently a member of PILnet’s Global Board.

Awmaima holds a PhD in Law from the University of Leeds and is a recognised expert on legal systems, access to justice, and pro bono development across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Drawing on both her professional expertise and lived experience of forced displacement, she works to advance human rights, strengthen access to justice, and support vulnerable and marginalised communities. She is a strong advocate for rights-holder engagement and empowerment, promoting approaches that centre the voices and leadership of affected communities.

Her areas of interest include refugee and migrant rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and access to justice. She is particularly interested in the intersection between immigration status and other barriers that can affect individuals’ ability to access their rights, opportunities, and essential services.

At DLA Piper, Awmaima leads initiatives that harness the firm’s pro bono capabilities to create positive social impact, including developing strategic pro bono partnerships and strengthening pro bono practice internationally. Her work focuses on expanding access to legal assistance, supporting displaced populations, and helping organisations deliver meaningful and sustainable impact by leveraging the law as a tool for positive change.

Adonica Black is a visionary leader with extensive experience in advancing inclusion, equity, and innovation across industries. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Talent, Inclusion, and Employee Brand and Global Head of Early Careers at Aptiv, where she oversees strategic programs to attract, retain, and develop top talent globally, including Aptiv’s global early careers programs and university partnerships. Under her leadership, Aptiv has solidified its reputation as an employer of choice while aligning its workforce initiatives with its mission of creating a safer, greener, and more connected world.

In 2024, Adonica joined the PILnet Global Board of Directors, bringing her expertise in inclusion, equity, and the strategic development of emerging markets and opportunities. As a board member, she is dedicated to advancing PILnet’s mission by fostering connections between global initiatives and emerging markets, driving transformative impact in underserved communities worldwide.
Adonica’s career includes a pivotal role at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, where she led the African Ancestry Network/Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship, a groundbreaking program in partnership with the United States’ Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Law School Consortium. Under her leadership, the fellowship expanded internationally to South Africa, advancing the mission to strengthen the rule of law globally. She also implemented award-winning inclusion frameworks and launched initiatives to enhance global employee engagement and professional development.
Her expertise lies in the strategic development of emerging markets and opportunities, informed by her Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School and her Bachelor of Arts in International Comparative Studies from Duke University. Her early career in litigation sharpened her critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which she has since leveraged to drive transformational change in global organizations.

Adonica serves as Vice President on the Duke University Alumni Global Board of Directors and as a Trustee for Pine Crest School. She is a strong advocate for inclusive leadership that drives transformation and innovation, fostering environments where equity and inclusion are integral to success and societal progress.

An avid traveler, Adonica has visited over 40 countries, enriching her global perspective and passion for cultural exchange. Her career exemplifies the transformative power of inclusion, innovation, and visionary leadership in creating meaningful impact across industries and communities.

Antonia Grumbach practiced law at Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler, where she chaired the Exempt Organizations Group, assisting nonprofits with corporate, tax and general governance advice in many sectors, including education, social services, health, human rights, philanthropy, and advocacy. Much of her work was global, ranging from the Middle East through Europe and Latin America, and nationally throughout the United States. She managed the firm in the 1990s and is serving as a retired partner and taking on pro bono projects. Antonia has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including acting as co-chair of Teachers College, Columbia University, and as chair of Wildlife Conservation Society, a global conservation organization.

Jonathan Kamin is a retired member of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s senior foreign service (rank of Minister Counselor). During his 18-year career with USAID Jonathan served in a number of USAID’s most challenging positions, including: Mission Director of the Rwanda/Burundi USAID Mission; Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau of Africa overseeing programs in Sudan and South Sudan; Deputy Mission Director and Acting Mission Director of the USAID Mission to the West Bank and Gaza; Assistant General Counsel for Africa and the Bureau for Food Security in USAID’s Office of the General Counsel; and as Regional Legal Advisor to the USAID Mission in Russia. Prior to joining USAID, Jonathan was the Malawi Country Director for the international microfinance organization Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), and served as General Counsel for FINCA, in Washington, D.C., overseeing the legal work for FINCA’s 24 country programs throughout Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America. Before joining FINCA, Jonathan was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Sachnoff & Weaver, in the firm’s corporate and business group. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Jonathan was an analyst in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, focusing primarily on the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe and Russia policies toward the Middle East. Jonathan has a J.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.A. from Northwestern University.

After spending more than twenty years in private law practice and then another fifteen years on the business side of international commerce as business executive for a number of telecommunications and technology enterprises (McCaw International, Nextel International, Internap Network Services and Clearwire International), today Ping serves as a business advisor consulting with clients on cross border initiatives, primarily related to Greater China and is a co-founder and board member of a SmartGames Ltd, a Chinese edutainment media venture catering to school children in Greater China.

In the civic arena, besides serving as a Board member of PILnet since 2014, Ping continues to be active with the Blakemore Foundation which awards grants for the advanced study of Asian languages where he was a board member for a number of terms commencing in 2000. In addition, until 2014 he served for 15 years as a Board member of Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute), an NGO which seeks to alleviate poverty through addressing land insecurity issues affecting the rural poor.

During his legal career Ping was a partner at the Davis Wright Tremaine and Perkins Coie law firms and in the early 80’s practiced law had administrative responsibility for the Taipei office of Baker McKenzie.

Ping is a graduate of Princeton University (BSE Chemical Engineering) and received his law degree from Columbia University.

Yoo-Kyeong Kudo is a higher education attorney and privacy professional. She is a University Counsel at Princeton University, where she advises on a variety of areas, including privacy and information security, information technology, business transactions, real estate transactions, institutional lending, risk management and trademarks.

Prior to this position, Yoo-Kyeong was an associate and counsel at the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, where she worked on complex corporate finance, structured finance and derivatives transactions. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and received her law degree from Columbia University.

Throughout her legal career, Yoo-Kyeong has advised non-profit organizations on a variety of issues. She is the co-founder and former board president and secretary of Open Hands Legal Society, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal services and counseling to indigent clients in New York City. She served as secretary to the New York City Bar Association’s Non-Profit Organizations Committee. She also served as pro bono counsel to Gifted Hands, a nonprofit organization that provides outreach to New York City’s underserved communities through art programs.

Tanguy Lim serves as the CEO of Pro Bono SG (PBSG), a charity and Institution of Public Character in Singapore. In 2007, he left legal practice to serve as the Law Society of Singapore’s first Director of Pro Bono Services to implement its vision for the provision of pro bono legal services. Tanguy established its Pro Bono Services Office which initially functioned as a department within the Law Society. In 2017, it was corporatised and is now known as PBSG. A Tote Board scholar, Tanguy has over a decade of leadership experience in the non-profit sector. He specialises in fostering public-private-people partnerships to improve access to justice. In 2022, he received the President of Singapore’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Leaders of Good Award.

Jacquelyn MacLennan offers more than 25 years of experience for clients worldwide, representing leading multinational corporations, governments and trade associations. She practices EU law with a focus on litigation and concentrates on competition law, trade and customs law, EU internal market free movement/regulatory/discrimination issues, in addition to European human rights law. Jacquelyn has substantial litigation experience presenting arguments before the EU courts and European Court of Human Rights, as well as amicus briefs before the US Supreme Court. Before working for White & Case, Jacquelyn was part of the External Trade team of the European Commission’s Legal Service.

Jacquelyn leads White & Case’s Global Pro Bono Practice, and is actively involved in the African Centre on Law & Ethics Programme, where she teaches legal ethics and business and human rights to young lawyers and law students. She is on the Board of PILnet and Operation Fistula, which works to end fistula globally. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh.

Kimberly Reed is a former big-firm partner who has managed a boutique international business law firm for over fifteen years, representing U.S. and foreign clients on mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, project finance, and nonprofit/NGO law. She has worked on transactions in over 70 countries. Prior to opening her firm, Reed International Law & Consulting, she was Hogen Lovells’ pro bono partner in Moscow. Now, in addition to her law practice, she is a Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, a top-five law school in the US.

She was also an Adjunct Professor and Assistant Dean at the University of North Carolina School of Law from 1995 to 2001.

Ms. Reed has worked on seven US Presidential campaigns, including serving on Barack Obama’s senior campaign staff as the Director of International Operations in 2007-08, where she created and managed the first worldwide political campaign field operation, comprising staff and volunteers in over 70
countries, and travelled around the world as President Obama’s surrogate to American expats and foreign leaders. She has worked on numerous Congressional, state and local races, has been a Democratic Party precinct chair, and is a Chief Election Judge in Maryland. She worked at The White
House Offices of Communications and Presidential Correspondence during President Bill Clinton’s administration.

In addition to the PILnet Board and PILnet Foundation’s Supervisory Board in Hungary, Ms. Reed serves on several other charitable boards, including at her alma mater, Duke University, and in her community in suburban Maryland.

Barbara A. Schatz is Clinical Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School  where she has taught and supervised students in representing nonprofit organizations since 1986. Her principal areas of interest are nonprofit organizations, social enterprise, community development, and clinical teaching.

​​She has served on the PILnet board since its incorporation in 2006 and chaired the board from 2006 until 2017. She currently serves on the boards of The Bank Street College of Education, Trickle Up, and Nonprofit New York.  She also serves on the Emeritus board of Human Rights First, an organization that she co-founded and on the board of which she served for more than 35 years.

She has taught and consulted with law faculties in China, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Hungary, and several other countries in central and eastern Europe in connection with their efforts to establish clinical legal education programs.

Prior to joining the faculty of Columbia, she served as executive director of the Council of New York Law Associates (now the Lawyers Alliance for New York). As director, she administered a pro bono program for 1,800 lawyers, created the organization’s Community Development Legal Assistance Center and co-founded Court Appointed Special Advocates, a program of advocacy for children in foster care, as well as Human Rights First. She also represented nonprofits, particularly developers of low-income and special needs housing, in corporate, tax and real estate matters.

A retired partner and former head of Skadden’s Hong Kong office, Singapore office and co-head of its Asia operations, Alan focused his practice on all aspects of development, financing, acquisition and divestment of energy and infrastructure projects throughout the Asia-Pacific region, working on many multi-billion dollar projects and “first of their kind” innovative structures. He also handled all the financing and related work for Wynn Macau’s hotel-resort projects. He established Skadden Hong Kong’s highly recognized pro bono practice and headed that initiative for many years, and remains involved in pro bono activities in Hong Kong, including currently serving as Chair of the Law Society’s Pro Bono Committee. In addition, he was one of the founders of the Hong Kong Pro Bono Legal Roundtable, and serves on its Steering Committee. Alan is currently on the board of his synagogue in Hong Kong, serving as Vice President, and is also on the Executive Committee of the Board of Fellows of his alma mater (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA).

Gail Aidinoff Scovell is an attorney and advisor specializing in nonprofit law, governance and
international operations. She previously served as General Counsel and Secretary of the Open Society
Foundations, the largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic
governance and human rights. Before joining Open Society, she served as Counsel to the President of
Hunter College, City University of New York, where she also served as Campus Ethics Officer and as
Labor Designee. Prior to that, she was General Counsel of the Guggenheim Museum.

Gail began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima and then as a tax
associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton where she also served as pro bono counsel to
organizations involved in education, housing, and environmental conservation. She also served as the
Cleary Gottlieb staff attorney at the Community Development Legal Assistance Center.

In addition to serving on the board of PILnet, Gail currently serves on the Executive Committee of the
Tax Reform Project and is a member of the Nonprofit Forum and the Leadership Council of IOBY (In Our Back Yard). She has previously served on the Advisory Board of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, the Nonprofit Organizations Committee and the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and the Steering Committee for ALI-ABA Course of Study, Legal Problems in Museum
Administration.

Gail graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Laura Tuell is the Firmwide head of Pro Bono at Jones Day and continues her efforts as an active pro bono practitioner representing numerous immigrants seeking asylum, particularly women seeking protection against gender persecution. Laura also has experience in housing discrimination, voting rights, landlord-tenant law, and death penalty issues. She was instrumental in working with the D.C. Bar to create the Free Legal Advice and Referral Clinic and has participated in that clinic for more than 10 years. Laura is chair of the board of the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and secretary of the board of Bread for the City. Among many awards for her efforts, she was named D.C. Bar Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.

Suzanne E. Turner is a partner and the chair of Dechert’s firm-wide Pro Bono practice, which provides legal representation to individuals and organizations that otherwise could not afford it. Her practice involves a wide range of human rights and civil rights litigation. Throughout her career, Ms. Turner has been active in many organizations focused on access to justice and civil rights issues. Currently, Ms. Turner is a board member of PILnet and of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. From 2005-2009, she served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service. She is the former chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Public Interest Section, founded and co-chaired the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Law Firm Pro Bono Committee and served as vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Equal Access to Civil Justice Committee.

Robert J. Vanni, Esq., a graduate of NYU School of Law and Columbia Business School, is Emeritus Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, a private non-profit corporation, operating 90 branches and four research libraries with a then annual budget of $240 million. From 2011 to mid-2019, he served as Senior Consultant for Government Relations of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (now Nonprofit New York), an umbrella organization representing and serving more than 1500 nonprofit members in the New York City, Long Island, and Westchester area. A former corporate associate with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, Robert has also served as the first General Counsel of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; as legislative assistant to Assemblyman Anthony G. Olivieri (deceased); and in legal positions with the United Nations Secretariat. He currently serves on the Board of PILnet; the Board of Humanities New York (formally New York Council on the Humanities); and as an Advisor to the Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.

Chloé Vialard is a French Avocate à la Cour and foreign registered lawyer in A&O Shearman’s International Arbitration practice in Singapore. She advises and represents companies and State-owned entities in international arbitrations, with a focus on Asia, and is an accredited mediator at the Singapore International Mediation Institute. Chloé is also active in the firm’s global Human Rights Working Group and Asia Pro Bono Committee.

She leads initiatives supporting access to justice, women and girl’s rights, and economic empowerment, including co-initiating the Singapore France Support Centre for women victims of violence. Chloé is a 2023 Rising Talent Laureate of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, a 2024 award recipient of the Trophy for French Established Abroad for Social and Humanitarian Responsibility, and was nominated Knight of the National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite) by French Presidential Decree on 15 May 2025.

Aryeh Neier is president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations. He was president from 1993 to 2012. Before that, he served for 12 years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, of which he was a founder in 1978. He worked 15 years at the American Civil Liberties Union, including eight years as national executive director. He served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University for more than a dozen years, and has also taught at Georgetown University Law School and the University of Siena (Italy). From 2012-2017, he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po.

Neier is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has published in periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Foreign Policy. For a dozen years he wrote a column on human rights for The Nation. He has contributed more than 300 op-ed articles in newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune. Author of seven books, including his most recent, The International Human Rights Movement: A History (2012), Neier has also contributed chapters to more than 20 books.

He has lectured at many leading universities in the United States and worldwide. He is the recipient of seven honorary degrees and numerous awards from such organizations as the American Bar Association, the Swedish Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Dr. Krassimir Kanev graduated in 1982 from Sofia University. Specialized Human Rights and Religious Freedom at Columbia University in 1996-97. For 10 years he taught an introductory course on international human rights at Sofia State University. Has also taught sociology, sociology of law, critical social theory, environmental studies and international human rights in a number of colleges and universities in Bulgaria and abroad, among them the Plovdiv State University, the University of Oregon, the University of Sarajevo and the Central European University. Has taught courses on UN mechanisms for human rights protection for lawyers from several East European countries.

Dr. Kanev started human rights work in 1988. Has been and continues to be an activist in a number of human rights NGOs. Since 1994 – Director of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. In the past, he has also been member of the boards of a number of international human rights NGOs and institutions. At present, he is Vice-President of the European Prison Litigation Network, director emeritus of PILnet, member of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, member of the Board of the Association for the Prevention of Torture and member of the Board of the International Partnership for human rights. Dr Kanev successfully represents clients before the European Court of Human Rights on a variety of human rights violations.