Our people

Jo Maugham KC founded Good Law Project back in 2017, without a single big backer and no staff. Under his leadership, the organisation has gone from strength to strength, raising millions of pounds to fund strategic litigation and winning landmark constitutional cases.

A tax barrister by trade, Jolyon became a Queen’s Counsel in 2015. He is an honorary Professor at the University of Durham and has advised the UK government and the official Opposition on tax policy. He has been described by The Times as ‘one of the country’s leading barristers’.

Siham Bortcosh has been involved with Good Law Project since mid-2019 and has helped to set up the organisation. A qualified accountant and experienced finance director, she has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over 25 years. In her role as Chief Operating Officer, she is responsible for making sure that our organisation is well-run and that our money is well-managed.

A campaigner by trade, Vic has led the campaigning functions at both the National Union of Students and Save the Children UK. Vic has joined Good Law Project to lead the growth and development of our campaigning work.

With over 20 years’ experience of running high-impact, high-profile campaigns, Vic will be responsible for engaging and mobilising our supporters to ensure Good Law Project has the money and the people power to win. Vic is a trustee at working-class youth activism organisation RECLAIM and Chair of the New Economy Organising Network (NEON).

Laura began work as a UK Government and European Commission civil servant then worked for 15 years in children’s rights. This included a decade living in Bulgaria where she led a campaign to transform the child care system and support children to leave state-run orphanages. More recently Laura has been engaged in social justice campaigns in the UK, including as the National Coordinator of the campaign group Momentum and as part of the Labour For A New Democracy coalition which aims to secure proportional representation.

Rupert Evans serves as Chair of Good Law Project and has been involved from the early days. He also directs Colchester Oyster Fishery, one of the UK’s largest and oldest oyster farms. For many years Rupert ran TranslateMedia, a start-up translation agency, in the UK. Rupert also directed and developed TranslateMedia’s subsidiaries in America, China, Germany and Poland until selling the business to Toppan Digital Language, a subsidiary of TOPPAN Holdings Inc., a public company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Mathew Lodge is an experienced technology executive and CEO of an Oxford AI start-up. Early in his career, he wrote code that flew on the International Space Station and helped connect six countries to the Internet. He developed early cloud computing services and more recently led a highly popular machine learning and AI platform. A keen photographer, he has visited 35 countries and lived and worked in Hong Kong, San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas.

Susan’s work focuses on the ways in which technology and society intersect and her interests include democracy, human rights, disinformation and the uses of AI and data. She has worked in the private sector, the not for profit sector and philanthropy. She was the first Executive Director of the Global Network Initiative.

Justin is a partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants, where he leads the Technology sector. He is a non-executive director of Mumsnet and of MyClinicalOutcomes.

Aditi Thorat has 20 years’ experience working with nonprofits and foundations in the UK and India, with 11 years focused on building strategic partnerships. Aditi joined the Global Commons Alliance as its inaugural Director of Fundraising in April 2023, a project of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, where she will focus on working collaboratively to raise resources and profile for this powerful network of over 100 partners to steward and protect the world’s global commons.

Until recently, she was Director of Development and member of the Leadership Team at Global Witness, where she managed a team responsible for annually raising $12m from institutional donors, major donors, special events and online giving. Aditi previously worked as Director of Development, and later Director of Corporate Engagement, at Thomson Reuters Foundation where she created and implemented a global fundraising strategy focusing on women’s rights, anti-slavery initiatives, pro bono legal support and media freedom.

Ife is a barrister at Matrix Chambers.