Our PEOPLE

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Roy Lee is a barrister & solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia.  He has 25 years’ experience as legislative drafter, consultant and adviser to governments, statutory bodies and international organisations.  Roy has advised on practical implementation of legislation in New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands, Guyana and Guernsey. Roy has also consulted in Kiribati, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Former clients include the World Bank, IMF, European Commission, UNDP and UNICEF.  Roy trained government officers, lawyers and drafters in policy, legislative drafting, and legal drafting in the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean and New Zealand, and currently works as legislative counsel in Guernsey.  He has wide-ranging experience in human rights legislation, including the European Convention on Human Rights, Data Protection, Freedom of Information, Child Protection and Prison legislation. He drafted the new GDPR-based data protection legislation in Guernsey. He lectures and writes on democratic governance and the need to upgrade democracy through mechanisms such as the Ombudsman and design standards for legislation. His specialty is producing plain English legislation designed to ensure good governance and minimise the risk of corruption and abuse.

Eve Sariyiannidou BA, LL.B, LL.M, PhD is an expert on EU and international law, policy and regulation. As a legislative specialist, Eve monitors all stages of the legislative process and has great grasp of the principles and the nuances behind the proposal, adoption and implementation of legislation. Eve has a strong academic and professional track record in EU policy, decision-making, institutions and interinstitutional relations. Her work in this area attracted ESRC funding and was consulted by a number of organisations, including the Council of Europe, the Court of Justice of the EU, the House of Lords (UK). She has worked for a wealth of government organisations both in the UK and in the EU (European Union and national governments) to support government decision-making and to strategically influence national and EU policy and regulation. Eve has an extensive government affairs and stakeholder engagement experience and effectively managed a complex matrix of stakeholders across government to successfully coordinate potentially conflicting inputs into decision-making.  Eve’s academic work also focused on the functions and complementarity of EU and international institutions, the relationship of EU law and international treaties, justice and human rights, the external dimension of human rights policy, the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights. Practical insight into these areas was achieved by working for the European Commission and its executive agencies, specifically in the fields of judicial and police cooperation, victims of crime, human trafficking, fundamental rights, the gender dimension and societal impact of EU policies. Eve has also worked in the following policy areas: data governance and ethics in digital environments, technologies and AI, data protection, privacy and confidentiality, information security and privacy engineering, digital innovation and innovative public services, EU health policy and cross-border healthcare, eHealth and health technology assessment, international and cross-border cooperation, European security and defence, international trade and development. 

Svetlana Ehtee, BA, MA, PhD (Anglo-American literature) is an experienced researcher undertaking policy and legal research for Solon Law. Svetlana has also been appointed an Honorary Research Associate at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. 

Over the past decade or so, Svetlana has presented at fifteen international academic conferences, conducted archival research trips to over a dozen university libraries and archives internationally, given invited lectures, chaired and co-organised panels at academic conferences, and published academic research papers. Her recent volunteer work has included editing UNICEF’s Annual Results Report (Goal Area 4).

She is currently studying to become a solicitor and expanding her research portfolio.