Our staff

Stephen Law has been the Executive Director for more years than he can remember. Apart from dealing with the day-to-day management of EMG, and seeing to its long-term health and development, he takes a special interest in EMG's work in the the fair trade and climate chamge fields. He is also an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees and occasional lunch-break web-master.

Nontembo Bam joined EMG in 1999, fresh out of secretarial college as our Admin Assistant. She has steadily moved up our little "corporate ladder" and currently fills our bookkeeping and financial information management responsibilities.

Taryn Pereira provides research for our climate change and water projects. She is currently doing action-research with the Witsands community, looking at ways of ensuring equitable access to water; as well as investigating how municipalities in the southern Cape have coped with the recent drought. She also helps Jessica organise our "climate chamge and water " seminars and oversees EMG's efforts to reduce our own carbon footprint.

Jessica Wilson manages a number of projects with a focus on international trade, environmental economics, water climate change and broader questions of sustainable development and environmental justice. She likes the "big picture" stuff that everyone else finds a bit boring. She takes a special interest in our courtyard garden and in solving the daily crossword before anyone else.

Thabang Ngcozela is one of EMG's most active networkers. He is responsible for a number of projects which focus on the participation of civil society organisations in water resource management policy, and works closely with dam-affected communities. He is also EMGs representative on the SA Civil Society Water Caucus, the Africa Rivers Network, and the Coalition for Environmental Justice.

Noel Oettle manages a suit of rural-based projects from EMG's rural field-office in Niewoudville, Northern Cape, where he also lives and tends to his patch of organic fruit and vegetables. Noel strives to link local and global realities in ways that enable small-scale rooibos farmers to respond more effectively to the challenges of trade, climate change and biodiversity loss while also enabling decision makers to understand and respond to the realities of rural people.