Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Sigrid Rausing Trust "was set up in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing. It was originally called the Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust after her grandparents. It made its first grants in 1996 and, from the beginning, has taken a keen interest in work that promotes international human rights.

"In 2003 the Trust was renamed the Sigrid Rausing Trust to identify its work more closely with the aims and ideals of Sigrid Rausing herself. So far it has given away more than £85 million in grants."

Trustees
Accessed February 2010:


 * Sigrid Rausing
 * Joshua Mailman
 * Susan Hitch
 * Andrew Puddephatt
 * Geoff Budlender

Accessed August 2007:


 * Sigrid Rausing
 * Joshua Mailman
 * Susan Hitch

Trust staff
Programme Officers
 * Director - Dr Morris Lipson
 * Joanna Ewart-James manages the Human Rights portfolio.
 * Jessica Horn - manages the Women’s Rights and Minority Rights portfolios.
 * Theodoros Chronopoulos - manages the Environmental Justice and Social & Economic Rights portfolios.
 * Major Grants Administrator & Finance Officer - Sheetal Patel - previously worked at the emergency healthcare organisation MERLIN, where her job involved travelling to various conflict zones to train staff and evaluate Merlin's financial systems.
 * Office Manager - Diana Clarke

Funded Groups 2006: Human Rights
Major Grants


 * Amnesty International Secretariat
 * Anti-Slavery International
 * Article 19
 * Association pour La Prevention de la Torture
 * Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
 * British Institute for Human Rights
 * Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
 * Cambridge University
 * Children's Legal Centre
 * Colombian Commission of Jurists
 * Commission for Looted Art in Europe
 * Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
 * Death Penalty Project
 * European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, The (EHRAC)
 * Front Line
 * Fund for Global Human Rights
 * Haitian Education and Leadership Project (HELP)
 * Human Rights Indonesia
 * Human Rights Watch
 * INDEX on Censorship
 * Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
 * Institute for War & Peace Reporting
 * International Center for Transitional Justice
 * International Cities of Refuge for Persecuted Writers Network
 * International Crisis Group
 * International PEN
 * International Rehabilitation Council For Torture Victims
 * Legal Resources Centre
 * London School of Economics (LSE)
 * Minnesota Human Rights Center
 * New Israel Fund
 * Omega Research Foundation
 * Open Democracy
 * Peace Brigades International
 * Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
 * Rory Peck Trust
 * Scholars At Risk Network
 * University of York
 * Zimbiala Trust

Contact

 * Web: http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Geoff Budlender