Director, Senior LawyerForest Peoples Programme
Tom Lomax is Director of Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), a leading international NGO focused on indigenous peoples and forest peoples’ land rights, working at the interface of human rights, climate and biodiversity, development, trade and finance. Established in 1990, FPP has a global team of 70 working with indigenous and civil society partners in 20 tropical forest countries across W,C&E Africa, S&C America and SE Asia. Working in solidarity with 60 partners, FPP supports indigenous peoples and forest peoples’ voices to be heard and to meaningfully shape local and global policy and law, to better secure their rights, and decide their own futures. As well as Director, Tom is a practicing lawyer whose legal experience includes over a decade providing legal advice and representation to indigenous and forest peoples (particularly in E and W Africa), supporting them to defend their rights and forests from rights violations and environmental destruction by state and/or business actors.