Owen Watkins

Owen was recently made a Reprieve Fellow on the growing Pakistan Police Torture Project, following six months volunteering in Birmingham.

He graduated in 2010 from the University of Birmingham with a 2.1 in Law with interests focusing on International Human Rights and International Public Law. From Cardiff originally, Owen speaks French as well as conversational Welsh.

Owen’s work experience includes six months at a solicitors’ firm in Cardiff during a gap year prior to university and another six months based in the Engineering Department at the University of Surrey. Following this experience Owen volunteered with Oxfam GB, working on WatSan (water and sanitation) issues in camps of displaced persons in North Uganda. Owen has also worked to improve conditions in hospitals for the mentally ill in Sri Lanka with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2008.