Our Team

Vladimir Radomirović

Chair of the Board

Vladimir Radomirović is editor-in-chief of Pištaljka, a whistleblowing platform in Serbia. Vladimir has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, in various media outlets in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2010, prior to co-founding Pištaljka, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Politika, Serbia's most respected daily newspaper. It was here that Vladimir became a whistleblower, reporting censorship and the conflict of interest of then prime minister of Serbia. He and several fellow journalists were fired from the paper and it was this experience that inspired them to start Pištaljka as a safe haven for whistleblowers.

Vladimir has received several awards in Serbia for his work with Pištaljka. He was a 2015 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is also the president of the Journalist's Association of Serbia (UNS) and a founding member of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) in Leipzig.

Cathy James

Vice-Chair of the Board

Cathy is a practising solicitor and whistleblowing expert with extensive knowledge of whistleblowing in the public interest.

Cathy was Chief Executive of the UK whistleblowing charity and legal advice centre Protect (formerly Public Concern at Work) for six years. She joined Protect as Legal Officer in 2006 and for more than decade, Cathy advised thousands of whistleblowers on how to raise their concerns effectively. She also provided expert advice to organisations of all sizes and sectors on the best practice principles of whistleblowing arrangements.

Cathy has worked closely with boards, regulators, central and local government to effect change in this vital policy area, both in the UK and internationally. She is an experienced charity trustee familiar with risk management and governance and she has recently been appointed as a part-time member of the Employment Tribunal panel for England and Wales.

Tom Devine

Tom Devine is Legal Director at the Government Accountability Project in Washington DC.

Since 1979 Tom has assisted over 7000 whistleblowers in defending themselves against retaliation and in making a real difference on behalf of the public. He has not lost a case since 2006, and has prevailed at numerous U.S. courts of appeals as well as the Supreme Court.

Tom has been a leader in campaigns to pass or defend 34+ national or international whistleblower laws, including nearly all U.S. federal enacted laws over the last two decades. Tom has written and co-authored numerous books, articles and op-eds. His books include Courage Without Martyrdom: The Whistleblower’s Survival Guide (1997) and The Corporate Whistleblowers Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth (2011). Tom is the recipient of the “Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award” and the “Defender of the Constitution Award” bestowed by the Fund for Constitutional Government. In 2006 he was inducted into the Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame.

Tom is a Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate of Georgetown University. He earned his J.D. from the Antioch School of Law, and sits on the board of the Disaster Accountability Project.

Annegret Falter

Annegret Falter (Dipl.-Pol.) is Chair of the non-profit organisation Whistleblower-Netzwerk. Works. She is also an author and consultant in Berlin, Germany.

For 15 years, Annegret was a member of the jury bestowing the German Whistleblower Award on behalf of the Association of German Scientists (VDW) and International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) (1999 – 2014). Winners of award included Brigitte Heinisch (Heinisch took her whistleblowing case successfully at the European Court of Human Rights), Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.

Annegret has written and edited numerous publications about whistleblowers and on the political and social importance of whistleblowing. She analyses whistleblowing in the context of the protecting the public interest and human rights, namely advancing the freedom of expression and the public’s right to information. Annegret appears regularly in German press and media as an expert in the field. In addition to her role as a Trustee of WIN, Annegret is a member of the IALANA advisory board, and the board of the German Science Journalist Association (WPK).

Giorgio Fraschini

Giorgio Fraschini is the Whistleblowing Programme Manager at Transparency International Italy. Giorgio joined the organization in 2009 as a legal expert and contributed to the growth of the chapter. He has built the whistleblowing programme in the last eleven years, with dissemination events, campaigns, roundtables and through the publication of books and policy papers. He also created training programmes for public and private organisations.

In 2014 he set up the national ALAC (Advocacy and Legal Advice Center) to provide free advice and assistance to whistleblowers. This programme has already helped 800 people. In 2015 he collaborated with relevant MPs to draft a bill on law on whistleblowing: this bill was the basis of the Italian law on whistleblowing, approved in late 2017. In 2018 he established, together with the Hermes Center for Transparency, the “WhistleblowingPA project” to provide all the public administration with an encrypted reported platform along with guidelines on the management of whistleblowing reports.

David Hutton

David Hutton is Senior Fellow of the Centre for Free Expression Whistleblowing Initiative at Ryerson University.

David has been an advocate for whistleblower protection since 2005. He worked with Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR), a charity devoted to whistleblower protection, for almost a decade and served as Chair of the Board and Executive Director for six years. During this time, he operated a free confidential help line and was contacted by more than 400 whistleblowers. FAIR was one of the original founding members of WIN. David has spoken and written extensively about whistleblowing, published in-depth analyses of Canadian whistleblowing laws and their implementation, and created original guidance material for whistleblowers. He also initiated with the Canadian Standards Association the development of a guideline on the implementation of whistleblowing systems, published in 2016.

David is also a published author and former management consultant, recognized as an expert in management systems and organizational change. Earlier in his career, David served as a senior executive in industry, led a successful consulting practice serving an international clientele for 20 years, and wrote two authoritative books on quality management that have been translated, published and distributed on four continents.

John Devitt

John Devitt is Chief Executive of Transparency International Ireland (TI’s chapter in Ireland). Since founding TI Ireland in 2004, John has led new research and successfully campaigned for new whistleblower protection, lobbying regulation, freedom of information and stronger corruption controls in Ireland. John was instrumental in bringing about the Protected Disclosures Act, 2014 and advised the Irish Government on the legislation. He has also advised and delivered training on behalf of international organisations, including the UN, Council of Europe and European Commission on whistleblower protection.

In 2011, John established TI Ireland's Speak Up Helpline which has supported over 1000 people reporting wrongdoing including Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe. John graduated with an MA in Ethics from the Mater Dei Institute in 2012.

Chido Onumah

Chido Onumah is a Nigerian and Canadian journalist, media trainer and human rights activist. He has spent over 30 years training journalists and promoting media and information literacy in Africa.

Chido is the coordinator of the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) based in Nigeria. AFRICMIL - a pan-African centre dedicated to a new vision of media and information literacy as a key component in the education of young people in Africa. AFRICMIL also works on the promotion of whistleblowing and whistleblower protection in Nigeria through its accountability and good governance project, Corruption Anonymous (CORA).

Chido holds a Ph.D. in communication and journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is the author of We Are All Biafrans, and has edited several books, including Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices (2020).

Elizabeth Gardiner

Elizabeth Gardiner is the Chief Executive of Protect, the UK’s whistleblowing charity. She is an employment solicitor and joined the charity in 2018 to supervise Protect’s free legal advice service, which has advised around 50,000 whistleblowers in its 30-year history. She was made CEO in 2020.

She has trained and provided consultancy to employers in the UK and to trade unions in the EU on whistleblowing and appears regularly as an expert in the media. Liz has a background in public policy and has worked in both Houses of Parliament in the UK and for a trade union. She set up a Parliamentary and Policy function for the charity Working Families and provided legal advice on parental rights at work.

Her first degree is in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, and she has a Postgraduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course from BPP University.

WIN Staff

Anna Myers

Ida Nowers

Amy Cullen

Verity Loughlin

WIN Trustees