OUR TEAM

Our team comprises investigators with experience in complex, multi-jurisdictional cases and non-profit specialists with backgrounds in finance, law, fundraising and operations. Most importantly, our team is passionate about using their skills to help strengthen the capacity of civil society to make the world a better place and support and secure justice for the people and communities affected by human rights, environmental, and international crimes.

STAFF

  • FOUNDER AND JOINT MANAGING DIRECTOR

    FIND grew out of Louisa Leeper’s efforts to assist UK-based charities with anti-trafficking and international crimes work. She is Joint Managing Director at FIND, sharing executive responsibilities with Chris Delaney. Louisa oversees operations, governance and people, alongside her investigative work.

    Her investigative expertise includes developing strategies in support of complex cross-border investigations, supporting survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery through asset tracing and corporate profiling, and conducting investigations in the Middle East and North Africa. Notable cases include mapping the supply chains of agricultural commodities credibly linked to harm, and supporting an indigenous community to investigate lineage fraud.

    Louisa has over a decade of experience in commercial and non-profit investigations and has delivered extensive training on financial investigations, including alongside the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI). She serves on the Justice Rapid Response (JRR) roster, an intergovernmental facility of criminal justice experts. Additionally, Louisa is a founder and trustee of a charity raising money for relief in Syria, Action Syria.

  • JOINT MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Chris joined FIND as Joint Managing Director during its first year and shares executive responsibilities with Louisa Leeper. Chris has played a fundamental role in developing capacity, culture and partnerships at FIND, and has pioneered innovative methodologies and collaborations alongside a broad range of partners. As an experienced editor, he ensures accuracy in investigations supporting legal or quasi-legal action.

    Chris has over a decade of experience in commercial and non-profit financial investigations. He has conducted investigations into a variety of sectors, including digital surveillance, agricultural commodities, hydrocarbons and telecommunications.

    Chris focuses on asset-tracing assignments in the context of sanctions enforcement, reparations and compensation. He has experience working on cases to support the enforcement of awards against sovereign states. Chris is a Russian speaker; he specialises in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

    Chris has also provided training in financial investigations to civil society organisations and advised UK charities on donor due diligence methods.

  • DIRECTOR AND INVESTIGATOR

    Mariana joined FIND in 2021. She is a Director and Investigator, where she oversees programmatic work, manages complex and long-running cases, and manages key partnerships. As part of the management team, Mariana also leads on special internal projects.

    Mariana has a background in corporate research and cross-jurisdictional investigations, in both the private and civil society sectors. She specialises in untangling complex corporate structures, mapping supply chains, and tracing financial flows. Since joining FIND, she has worked on cases involving corporate complicity, atrocity financing, digital surveillance, illegal mining, and deforestation linked to agricultural commodities. Her work has contributed to OECD complaints, sanctions submissions, intergovernmental fact-finding mechanisms, and other legal and quasi-legal actions.

    Mariana also delivers training on strategic corporate research, financial investigations, and OSINT techniques. She is a recurring trainer on the IICI’s Financial Dimensions of War Crimes course and a member of the Justice Rapid Response (JRR) Roster, an intergovernmental network of criminal justice experts.

  • RESEARCH LEAD AND INVESTIGATOR

    Roy has been an Investigator with FIND since 2022. In this role, he has managed a variety of cases, ranging from asset tracing in support of human rights accountability work to complex network mapping of companies involved in developing harmful surveillance technology. Roy also acts as Research Lead within the investigations team, responsible for the constant development of our research tools, skills, and internal resources to keep us at the cutting edge.

    Roy has over a decade of experience in investigative work in academic, corporate, journalistic and non-profit contexts. He has worked on major complex international fraud and anti-money laundering cases, grand corruption and kleptocracy investigations, and conducted in-depth research into the militarisation of communication technology. With FIND, he has applied this broad experience to helping partners uncover and capitalise on public record and open source information to develop creative strategies which can take their cases forward.

    Recent experience includes large-scale projects related to human rights sanctions enforcement, international corporate network mapping relating to environmental harm, and asset tracing targeting arms dealer networks. He has supported targeted sanctions submissions, legal accountability work, public and investor advocacy, and intergovernmental fact-finding mechanisms. He has also developed and delivered bespoke financial investigations training to partners and has been a trainer on the IICI’s Financial Dimensions of War Crimes course.

  • INVESTIGATOR

    Having supported the organisation’s work since its founding, Jack joined FIND as a full-time Investigator in 2023. In this role, Jack manages a range of complex corporate mapping and evidence-gathering exercises, as well as supporting partners with capacity building and case development. At FIND, he has led research on cases involving human trafficking, atrocity financing, digital surveillance and gold smuggling.

    Jack draws on seven years’ experience as an investigator in non-profit, commercial and academic settings, collaborating with civil society organisations and inter-governmental bodies on accountability and recovery strategies. From documenting war crimes to establishing corporate complicity in mass atrocities, he has supported dozens of legal cases, advocacy campaigns, media reports, and academic research projects. His findings have contributed to criminal indictments and sentencing in both international and domestic courts.

    Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Jack has conducted in-depth research and solo fieldwork across Latin America, Europe and Africa. His previous affiliations include the Global Health Justice Partnership and the Humanitarian Research Lab.

  • TRAINING PARTNER

    Cat is a training and investigations consultant who develops and delivers training courses for investigative teams in the non-profit space as well as in legal, corporate and financial industries. She has been working with the FIND team to develop our capacity-building programme and bespoke training services since 2022.

    These courses target a range of open and human source intelligence gathering techniques, as well as specific investigative methodologies such as asset identification and recovery. Cat has 12 years of experience in the corporate investigations industry and continues to provide project support alongside her training commitments. Her particular area of interest is the Former Soviet Union and Latin America.

  • OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

    Drawing on his operational and research experience, Samuel joined FIND in 2025 to support fundraising, project workflows, and administration.

    Alongside his role at FIND, Samuel is an open source researcher investigating border violence and surveillance. His work, which has been hosted by the Migrants’ Rights Network, examined the UK’s deployment of AI-driven autonomous surveillance towers along the English Channel.

    Samuel has previously volunteered with Airwars, verifying cases of civilian harm by geolocating airstrikes in Gaza and Syria, and served as a research assistant with Forensic Architecture on their Gaza report commissioned by South Africa for its case at the International Court of Justice.

    He holds an MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

We are supported by our board of directors and advisors who, between them, have decades of experience across non-profit and commercial investigations, human rights litigation, nationality and migration law, digital rights, legal advocacy and strategic litigation, international arbitration, accounting, and charity operations. Our directors and advisors give their time and support to FIND on a pro bono basis.

  • FOUNDER AND BOARD MEMBER

    Nick has more than 15 years of experience in corruption investigations, evidence gathering, and supporting the enforcement of judgements and arbitral awards. He is a co-founder of Raedas.

    In 2016, Nick consulted for the International Criminal Court, evaluating its financial investigation practices and advising on asset recovery. He serves on the expert rosters of Justice Rapid Response, an intergovernmental facility of criminal justice experts, and the UN Security Council Affairs Division.

  • BOARD MEMBER

    Laura directs the Temple University Institute for Law, Innovation, & Technology, a legal centre dedicated to equity and social justice at the intersection of technology and society.

    Laura has lectured, spoken, and taught worldwide on human rights, strategic litigation practice, equality law, law and technology, and migration and nationality law.

  • FOUNDER AND BOARD MEMBER

    Simon has had an extensive 35-year career as an experienced CFO and a broad NED portfolio in rapid growth UK and international businesses.  His specialisms include scaling up operations, finance, and fundraising.

    In the 2000s, Simon was a founder and trustee of a Foundation charity that supported education, health and capacity-building projects in the Sahara, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

  • BOARD MEMBER

    Cy is a retired partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (GDC), where he founded and served as Co-chair of the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. Cy has over 30 years of experience in international dispute resolution and has been involved in some of the most significant international arbitrations of the past two decades. His experience encompasses disputes under numerous national laws as well as public international law ranging across a wide body of industry sectors, both as counsel and sitting as arbitrator. He has also been actively involved in various professional organisations, including as a lead member of the IBA Task Force that drafted the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation.

    Cy has a long history of supporting pro bono work, including supervising GDC’s associates involved in challenges to laws criminalising same-sex sexual activity. He is also active in supporting the development of a program at the New York University School of Law known as the “Democracy Project”.

STRATEGIC ADVISORS

  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR

    Montse has more than 15 years of experience investigating and litigating human rights and financial crime across Southeast Asia, the US and Europe. She currently serves as the Deputy Regional Director for Research at the East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Office of Amnesty International. She previously also investigated corporate crimes in the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity and filed universal jurisdiction cases in continental Europe.

    Prior to transitioning to human rights, Montse worked for global law firm Clifford Chance in its New York, Washington DC, Hong Kong and Singapore offices focusing on international arbitration, white collar crime and corruption investigations.

    She serves on the expert rosters of Justice Rapid Response.

  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR

    Daniela is an international human rights lawyer, advocate and teacher who specializes in developing innovative legal instruments that can yield structural change to empower vulnerable communities. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Colombia University, where she has taught since 2011.

    She was formerly the Coordinator of the Working Group on Strategic Litigation at the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  A Brazilian lawyer, she obtained her LLM from Columbia University Law School and her doctorate from the University of São Paulo. Her doctoral thesis was cited by the Brazilian Supreme Court in its 2012 decision that declared the constitutionality of affirmative action programs in Brazil. 

  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR

    Tim is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers where he practises a broad range of civil and international law, with a particular focus on claims involving environmental torts, climate change, and business and human rights issues. His work often applies the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the two key international standards now at the forefront of establishing corporate responsibility in the context of the climate and biodiversity emergencies.

    Tim has particular experience in international business and human rights claims, including as junior counsel in cases such as The Bodo Community v Shell and The Ogale Community v Shell, both cases arising from oil pollution in Nigeria, Various v African Barrick Gold, concerning mining operations in Tanzania and Various v British Airways and Simon Woods in Kenya. He also advises in relation to complaints under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR

    Mouki joined FIND in 2023 to support the team with strategy and coordination, translating long-term goals across FIND’s functional areas into actionable plans and stewarding our team’s collective wellbeing.

    Mouki has worked in charity operations for seven years. She grew a student fundraiser into an award-winning, registered charity that provides funds to trauma-informed legal aid providers working with migrant communities in Greece and the Balkans. She later served as a trustee for the organisation, overseeing grant-making activities and reporting. Mouki has spent time working on fundraising and development for Fair Trials, the international criminal justice watchdog, and providing legal support to immigration detainees in the UK.  

    Mouki also previously worked as an analyst on commercial investigations and due diligence work. Fluent in Arabic, Greek and Turkish, she focused on Southern Europe and the Middle East.