Claire Glavey is the Project Officer for Global Village, the strategic partnership for Global Citizenship Education in primary schools. She is a qualified primary school teacher and has a M.Sc. in Development Studies. Prior to this role, she worked as a primary school teacher and on a range of human rights education and development education programmes in the NGO sector. She brings her broad ranging experience of Development Education practice, as well as a strong commitment to strategic and quality-focused work, to the National Council.

Dr John Reynolds is Associate Professor of International Law and Chair of the LLM International Justice programme at the School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University. He is the author of Empire, Emergency and International Law and editor of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review journal and website. John writes regularly about Palestine for various academic and popular publications. 

Mary Coogan is Development Education Programme Manager with TrócaireMary holds a BA from Trinity College Dublin and an MSC in International Development from UCD. She has worked in international development for over 10 years, particularly in the area of public engagement and education. Mary has worked with Trócaire for 9 years and with the development education team in Trócaire for 3 years. Her role involves managing programmes to support children and young people to critically engage with global justice issues. These programmes include resource development, innovative programmes on games based learning and documentary film making, and pre-service and in-service teacher training for educators in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Talha AlAli is A Youth Activism Officer with Amnesty International Ireland. A Palestinian human rights activist, performer, lyrist, and hip-hop artist, Talha started fighting for political change and social justice in Palestine at a young age through hip-hop music and theatre in the early 2000s. Talha’s passion for empowering people did not stop at music and theatre. He graduated from university as a psychologist and a counsellor and continued his post-grad in mental health and psychotherapy to work as a psychotherapist alongside his work in human rights