Accountability activist, civic organizer, and nonviolent action educator. In over thirty years of organizing, Philippe Duhamel has led key successful campaigns with human rights and civic organizations, environmental and community groups. His Operation Transparency campaign design, first used to bring the draft agreement of Free Trade Area of the Americas in 2001 out in the open, has been used with success by a number of labour and civil society organizations. Philippe Duhamel now works as an independent consultant and trainer specializing in strategic campaign design involving the creative use of nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience.