Vanessa Herringshaw
Vanessa Herringshaw is Program Director of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative. Her work has centred on strengthening accountability and governance, in areas including economic policy and poverty reduction, the extractive sector, health services and children’s rights.
Vanessa spent four years living in South Asia, working with communities, donors and governments. She then joined Save the Children UK, developing organisational strategy, coordinating advocacy and finally heading the Economic Policy Unit. She joined T/AI after five years at the Revenue Watch Institute. As Director of Capacity Building, she developed innovative programs to improve accountability and governance, working with governments, parliaments, civil society and media from Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and Eurasia. Most recently, as Director of Advocacy and Director for Europe, Vanessa played a central role in the passage of ground-breaking new transparency legislation for extractive companies that will have global reach.
Vanessa has a Bachelor’s from the University of Cambridge, a Master’s from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, and was a Frank Knox Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Florencia Guerzovich
Florencia Guerzovich is Impact & Learning Program Officer for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative. She has been working on these issues since 2000, when she joined the Department of Transparency Policies of the Argentinean Anti-corruption Office. Before joining the T/A Initiative, Florencia worked as a consultant for a number of international development partners, including the Open Society Foundations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and The World Bank. Florencia earned her PhD in political science from Northwestern University. She has conducted extensive research on governance, accountability, anti-corruption, and effectiveness issues. Her publications include Building Accountability: The Politics of Anti-Corruption and The Anticorruption Agenda in Latin America: National and International Developments. Florencia also has a Master’s degree in International Relations from FLACSO/Argentina and a Bachelor’s of Arts in International Studies from Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina.
Miriam McCarthy
Miriam McCarthy is Program Associate for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/A Initiative). She coordinates the New Technologies program and provides support for the program’s research, communications, and finance.
Prior to joining the T/A Initiative in 2010, Miriam McCarthy worked as primary Data Analyst for the Open Society Foundation’s At Home in Europe project, exploring the experiences of ordinary Muslims in 11 cities across Western Europe.
Before this, she worked for a social research consultancy, studying the lives of people aged 60+ living with HIV. In 2008, Miriam volunteered as researcher for an Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) network in Rabat, Morocco.
Previously, Miriam worked for eight years as a press relations officer in the classical music sector. She represented everything from international artists and orchestras to community operas, music in prison initiatives and arts education projects.
She holds a Masters in Social Research from the University of Goldsmiths and a Bachelor’s in Music from Kings College London.