James is a strategist, facilitator, and foresight practitioner with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of social justice, human rights, and philanthropy. His career spans roles as a campaigner, researcher, grantmaker, and organisational leader—including senior positions at the Fund for Global Human Rights, Open Society Foundations, the Funders Initiative for Civil Society, Oak Foundation, and Amnesty International.

As Founder of Saz Consulting, he now supports charities and foundations to design future-aligned strategies, strengthen organisational systems, and build collaborative networks across movements. With deep expertise in organizational development, narrative strategy, learning and evaluation, and cross-movement collaboration, James brings a rare combination of systems insight, facilitation craft, and lived experience in global social justice work. He holds an LLM in Public International Law from SOAS, University of London, and a BA in Turkish and Arabic from the University of Oxford.