Dr Fatima Diallo is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Action on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CRADESC). She is a lawyer and legal anthropologist with fifteen years of experience as an academic, international consultant and development actor. She was a Senior Researcher at the University of Cape Town and Deputy Secretary General of the African Constitutional Law Network (South Africa) before taking up the position of Extractive Industries and Infrastructure Manager for Francophone Africa at Natural Justice. 

She is Vice-Chair and member of the United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. 

Fatima holds a PhD from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and graduated from the University Gaston Berger (Senegal).