Founder & Executive DirectorAccountability Counsel
Natalie Bridgeman Fields is the Executive Director of Accountability Counsel. She leads the organization of community-driven lawyers engaged in direct case support, advocates working at the systems level to shift policy, and researchers working to improve transparency and tools to amplify the voices of people around the world to defend their human rights and environment. Natalie has dedicated her career to advocating alongside people harmed by internationally financed projects.
Natalie founded the organization in 2009 with early support from Echoing Green and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. Before that, she was a consultant on accountability to two development banks, had a solo human rights and environmental law practice, and was a litigator at a major law firm. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and three kids.
Arresting DeforestationClean EnergyClean WaterEconomic OpportunityEnvironmental SustainabilityFinancial ServicesHealthHuman RightsInternational JusticeLivelihoodsLiving ConditionsPeacePeace and Human RightsResponsible Supply ChainsSanitationSmallholder ProductivityStandardsWater ManagementWomen's and Girls' Education
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa