Clive Stafford Smith JD OBE is a dual UK-US national, the founder and director of  the Justice League a non-profit human rights training centre focused on fostering the next generation of advocates. He previously founded and directed the legal action charities Reprieve (in London), and LCAC (in New Orleans). Since 1984 he has helped to represent over 400 people facing execution in the US and elsewhere, as well as bringing the first challenge to Guantánamo Bay, where he has secured the release of 85 detainees, and continues to assist the remaining 30. He has recently taken on the case of Aafia Siddiqui, the woman who has most suffered from the US rendition to torture program. He has been based back in the UK since 2004, though must of his work remains in the US. In 2000, he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to humanity”.