Nick Grono

Nick Grono is CEO of The Freedom Fund. He was previously COO of the International Crisis Group and Chief of Staff to the Australian Attorney-General.

What helps practitioners listen to their critics? An interview with Nick Grono

Freedom Fund’s CEO says it’s ‘ridiculous’ to criticise anti-trafficking as a whole. To be heard, critics must be more precise

By Nick Grono

/ 21 May 2025

What helps practitioners listen to their critics? An interview with Nick Grono

The catalysing power of philanthropy in anti-trafficking

A few large donors forced a step change in anti-trafficking work when they began to collaborate a few years ago. Now others are building on what they started.

By Nick Grono

/ 3 Feb 2021

The catalysing power of philanthropy in anti-trafficking

Supply chains roundtable: Nick Grono

Question 3 – how can we promote business accountability for labour standards in supply chains? The ILO estimates that the annual profits from ‘forced labour’ amount to $150 billion per year.

By Nick Grono

/ 3 Sep 2016

Supply chains roundtable: Nick Grono

Question 3 – how can we promote business accountability for labour standards in supply chains? The ILO estimates that the annual profits from ‘forced labour’ amount to $150 billion per year.

By Nick Grono

/ 3 Sep 2016

The International Criminal Court: success or failure?

The well-executed international-security operation could have been taken straight from the script of a Hollywood thriller. In the late evening of Saturday 24 May 2008, Jean-Pierre Bemba, former vice-president of

By Nick Grono

/ 9 Jun 2008

Sudan and the ICC: a question of accountability

The Sudanese regime is, by any measure, one of the most brutal and destabilising in the world today. Its atrocities have not been limited to Darfur. Khartoum has harshly suppressed

By Nick Grono and David Mozersky

/ 31 Jan 2007