Polly Rossdale

Polly Rossdale works with Katie Taylor to rehabilitate and resettle ex-Guantánamo prisoners.

Polly read Social Anthropology at St John's College, Cambridge, and holds a Certificate in Immigration Law from City University and a Diploma in Legal Reasoning and Analysis from Birkbeck College, London. She has a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation at the European Inter-University Centre, Venice. 

Polly has researched and volunteered in Central and South America and several West African countries and brings this experience - plus four European languages - to Reprieve. She has previously worked with organizations providing refugee care and rehabilitation to survivors of gross human rights violations . She is a trustee of the Schwab and Westheimer Trusts, which provide educational grants to young refugees and asylum seekers.

Contact: polly.rossdale@reprieve.org.uk