Rachel Hanna
Executive Director
Rachel Hanna is the Director of Access Info. Specialised in the right of access to information, open government and transparency, Rachel manages Access Info’s legal research and policy analysis projects, using final results to campaign for change.
Rachel is also currently serving as Director of the Northern Ireland Open Government Network, where she provides strategic leadership to the organisation, aiding it to set the foundations for building a more public-focused, participatory, open, and accountable government in Northern Ireland.
Rachel has previous national and international experience in the implementation of human rights. At the national level, she has worked in grassroots NGOs promoting refugee rights, and countering human trafficking. At the international level, she interned at the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General in New York, where she worked in the Sustainable Development Unit focusing on the nationalisation of Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2015 Rachel graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a degree in Civil and Common Law with Spanish studies, and in 2016 she obtained a Masters in international human Rights Law, specialising in the rights of unaccompanied foreign minors.
Rachel speaks English and Spanish
Projects
At Access Info, Rachel has worked on the following projects:
- Access to Information
- Anti-corruption
- Public Procurement Transparency
- Open Company and Beneficial Ownership
- EU Funds Transparency
- Open Government
Articles and Events
- Is the Guardian of the Treaties Doing Enough for EU Transparency? MEPs don’t seem to think so!
- Recommendations for EU Procurement and National Procurement Recommendations
- Briefing note: European Commission’s Impact Assessment on Openness of Company Data
- Transparency in Emergency Procurement: ten recommendations for policy makers, CSC Working Paper No. 8, November
- Opening Up SDG 5: What do we know about Gender Equality?
- Living in Limbo: The life of Refused Asylum Seekers in Northern Ireland
- Acknowledging and Repairing the Moral and Collective Harms of Ethnic Vietnamese of the Khmer Rouge Genocide
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