Elizabeth Griffin

Honorary Professor, Coach, Mentor & Yogini

Liz is a coach, mentor and wellbeing consultant to non-profits. She empowers human rights, humanitarian and international legal professionals and organisations to reach their maximum potential, made bigger social impacts and stay well. 

Liz has over 20 years of experience working with the UN, NGOs and universities, rising to the level of professor of international human rights law. She holds two honorary academic posts, Fellow, University of Essex Human Rights Centre (UK) and Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.

Her most recent research was a study of secondary trauma in the human rights, humanitarian and media sectors. 

Liz fuses her academic, UN, and NGO expertise with her skills as an Professional Certified Coach (PCC), mentor, and yoga and meditation teacher. She is a multi-faceted, culturally sensitive, multilingual advocate for wellbeing in the non-profit sector who delivers wellbeing and organisational retreats for NGOs and IGOs. Liz has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, often in highly challenging conflict and post-conflict situations.

Liz’s clients include: 

• The International Committee of the Red Cross and Crescent (ICRC)
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 
• Oxfam 
• The UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• The UN Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
• The UNDepartment of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO)
• The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• The Office for Democratisation and Human Rights, OSCE
• Prison Reform International
• The Danish Refugee Council 
• World Vision
• The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
• The Convention against Torture Initiative (CTI)
• The International Criminal Court (ICC)
• The Centre for Reproductive Rights
• The Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia
• The Climate Change Litigation Network 

Find out more about Liz here.