Charmian Gooch

Charmian Gooch is co-founder and director of Global Witness, a non-profit campaigning organization that addresses the links between natural resource exploitation and the funding of conflict and corruption. She jointly led Global Witness's first campaign, exposing the trade in timber between the Khmer Rouge and Thai logging companies and their political and military backers. Subsequently, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness’s ground-breaking campaign to combat ‘blood diamonds.’ Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of this work. In 2014, Charmian was awarded the TED Prize and was named one of Fast Company’s 100 most creative people in business. Also in 2014, Global Witness received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.