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Lindlyn Moma

Director of strategic impact

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Telephone: +44 (0)20 3463 7399
Languages: English, French (basic)

Lindlyn is an environmental and human rights advocate and scholar. Her passion for justice and sustainable development was ignited by Liberia's civil war. She has held senior roles, including advocacy director of the Laudato Si' Movement and programme director of Greenpeace Africa, and sits on the board of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

Expertise

Energy transition; critical minerals governance; the use of legal tools to support Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Before IIED

  • Advocacy director, Laudato Si Movement
  • Co-coordinator, integral ecology taskforce of the Vatican COVID-19 commission hosted by the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development
  • Africa programme director, WildAid
  • Programme director, Greenpeace Africa
  • Regional advocacy manager, WaterAid Southern Africa
  • Environment policy officer, Third World Network in Africa
  • Editor, Africa Human Rights Law Journal
  • Guest lecturer on climate change and human rights, Centre for Human Rights at University of Pretoria’s law school

Education 

  • Legum Doctor, University of Pretoria
  • Master of Laws, human rights and democratisation in Africa, University of Pretoria
  • Graduate diploma, international law, University of Pretoria
  • Maîtrise en Sciences Juridique et Politique, Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale
  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Buea

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