Ara Marcen Naval leads global advocacy for Transparency International Defence & Security, working towards raising awareness of the nexus of corruption, conflict and insecurity. Ara is a human rights specialist who previously work as Deputy Director for Global Issues at Amnesty International, where she headed up the organisation’s global research, campaigning and advocacy on issues including the arms trade, torture trade, policing weapons, surveillance technologies and the use of inhumane weapons around the world and other disarmament related issues.