STAFF
Marjeela basij-rasikh
youth leaders network coordinator
Marjeela manages III's Youth Leaders Network (YLN). Prior to joining III, she co-led the Grants and Fund Development of Innovation Programs at Think Beyond Plastic™. Marjeela is also the founder of REESHA (Resettlement, Education, Empowerment, Sustainability, Health & Advocacy), a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to addressing the rapidly evolving needs of the most vulnerable Afghan families to help them thrive. She speaks 5 languages and loves to explore nature through traveling.
MERXHAN DACI
COMMUNICATIONS FELLOW
Merxhan Daci assists III in communications strategy and tasks regarding the international campaign for an International Anti-Corruption Court. He is an award-winning journalist in his native Albania. Merxhan has worked in the media sector for seven years across the Balkans. He has a background in fact checking and investigative reporting. Corruption is a huge problem in Albania and the country is implementing a justice reform to counter it phenomenon. The much-awaited results motivate many Albanians, including Merxhan, to learn from international perspectives about corruption and how to fight it.
mihaela esanu
special assistant to the Chair
Mihaela is the Special Assistant for Judge Wolf, the Chair of Integrity Initiatives International. She is a recent graduate of Harvard College, where she studied Government and German Literature. Prior to joining III, she interned for Rachel Reeves, a British Labour MP acting as the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. As the Senior Director of Policy Research for the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative, Mihaela also coordinated policy research projects for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and NATO. Originally from Moldova, Mihaela is deeply committed to III’s anti-corruption efforts; in high school, she co-led a national campaign against corruption in the Moldovan educational system.
maja groff
senior treaty advisor
In addition to serving as III’s Senior Treaty Advisor, Maja is also the Chair of the IACC Treaty and Advisory Committees, and a Co-Chair for the International Coordinating Committee for the IACC campaign. She is the Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission and a former official (Principal Legal Officer) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Maja has drafted international legal policy documents for inter-governmental processes and published academically on private and public international law, human rights and global governance (e.g., Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar, Hart, Intersentia).
IAN LYNCH
MANAGING dIRECTOR AND PROGRAM director
Ian manages III’s operations and staff. He coordinates the global efforts to create the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC). His writing on corruption and other foreign policy topics has been published in The New Republic, Lawfare, Just Security, The Diplomat, esglobal, The Daily Maverick, and other outlets. From 2013-2018, Lynch helped lead girls’ education projects in Afghanistan, where he experienced firsthand the devastating toll grand corruption can have on entire societies.
sarah tisshaw
program associate
Sarah supports advocacy efforts at III and staffs the IACC model treaty drafting project. She graduated with an IntMA in Central and East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies from Tartu University (Estonia), University of Glasgow (Scotland), and Jagiellonian University (Poland). Prior to her role at III, she worked as an International Affairs Analyst at NATO Allied Command Transformation. She has also interned with the U.S. State Department, Cleveland Council on World Affairs, and Instytut Kościuszki in Poland.