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Michael Hammer is the Executive Director of the One World Trust since July 2006. Before joining the Trust Michael worked as Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and Burkina Faso Researcher, and then Africa Programme Director with Amnesty International, as West Africa Programme Director responsible for Sierra Leone and Liberia with peace-builders Conciliation Resources, and as a consultant and projects manager for European integration and urban planning with for Germany based sustainability and planning consultants Institut Raum & Energie. Prior to this he lived and worked several years in West Africa, researching urban and rural land conflicts in the context of slum rehabilitation and environmental resource degradation in Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire. Michael leads the Trust’s work on parliamentary oversight of international affairs, international law, peace and security governance, global democracy, and accountability of policy research. He is co-author of the One World Trust Global Accountability Report and regularly speaks at conferences, and publishes articles and briefings. After studies in Dakar (Senegal) and Hamburg (Germany) he obtained his Research Master’s in geography, history and urban planning from the University of Hamburg in 1995. Michael is a Trustee of the British Overseas NGOs for Development Network (BOND), and a member of the board of Greenpeace Germany. He speaks fluent English, German, French and Dutch.