Patricia Feeney
Executive Director, Rights and Accountability in Development, United Kingdom
Patricia Feeney Grylls is the Executive Director of Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) an Oxford-based NGO that conducts research into corporate accountability, human rights and extractive industries. Previously she was a Researcher in Amnesty International’s Latin American Department and after that the Senior Policy Adviser for Oxfam on aid, trade, investment and human rights.
The main focus of RAID’s current research is the Democratic Republic of Congo and the role of the OECD Guidelines in situations of conflict and post-conflict. In June 2004 RAID published a report Unanswered questions: Companies, conflict and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mrs Feeney is a research affiliate of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford where she teaches post-graduate students on the Forced Migration Masters’ Degree course. She is a one of the founders of OECD WATCH, a network of non-governmental organisations that works to promote corporate accountability. She is the author of numerous reports and articles including Accountable Aid (Oxfam Publications, Oxford 1998.) and edits the OECD WATCH newsletter.