Audrey Gaughran
Executive Director
Audrey Gaughran is an international expert on the political economy of corporate power. She has been the Executive Director of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) since 2021.
Prior to joining SOMO, Audrey worked for organisations including Amnesty International, the United Nations and the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
She has a long track record of investigating and reporting on abuses of corporate power and the economic structures that enabled it. She has two decades of experience working on the oil and gas sector and conflict minerals, from human rights and resource governance perspectives.
As a researcher, Audrey has led projects and investigations on illicit financial flows linked to mineral extraction, the monopoly power of Big Tech and Big Agriculture, the role of tax and investment structures in expanding corporate power, and how foreign investment is used to facilitate predatory lending and exacerbate national debt, amongst other issues. She has significant experience in developing and advising on litigation strategies against multinational corporations, particularly in the fossil fuel industry.
Audrey chairs the Board of the Balance Economy Project, an anti-monopoly organisation based in the UK. She is Co-Chair of the Board of the Digital Freedom Fund and also serves as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and as a special adviser to the Future Economy Incubator.
She has studied journalism, economics, law, and environmental science and holds post-graduate qualifications in the fields of human rights and environmental management.
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