Mike
Parkinson
Since leaving Oxfam in 2020, where he had a specialist role in regulatory and compliance issues, he has become an independent consultant and is currently an Associate at Conciliation Resources in the UK. He has worked on policy and compliance issues relating to financial sanctions and counter terrorism for over a decade. He is an active member of the NGO FATF coalition having represented UK NGOs at the first ever FATF plenary session on the impact of FATF rules on humanitarian work in 2014; was an NGO representative on the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate programme on State regulation of NGOs (2011 -13); a member of the steering group which advised the OCHA/NRC 2013 “Study of the Impact of Donor Counter Terrorism Measures on Principled Humanitarian Action”. More recently he was an invited participant on the Global Counter Terrorism Forum working group on safeguarding civil society space while countering the threat of terrorist financing. He is a member of the UK’s Tri Sector Working Group which brings together Government departments (Treasury, FCDO, Department of International Trade and Home Office), banks and NGOs on mitigating the risk of counter terrorism regulations on humanitarian action.