Piers Pigou has lived and worked in South Africa since 1992; his has been work focused on the documentation and remedy of human rights violations, in particular issues of torture, assassination and political violence. This included several non-governmental organisations, as well the South African and East Timorese truth commissions in their investigation units. He has also worked on transitional justice issues in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Northern Ireland, Canada, Lebanon, Cyprus amongst others. In 2006. Piers became the director of the South African History Archive, an archive dedicated to documenting and archiving past and contemporary struggles for justice in South Africa, the promotion of access to information and enhancing public access to records through materials production and outreach. Between June 2009 and October 2010, Piers was Senior Associate for the International Center for Transitional Justice with responsibility for Southern Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular. Between 2011 and 2024 Piers worked at the International Crisis Group as Project Director for Southern Africa and subsequently a senior consultant. He was also an adviser to the Elders and a parttime investigator for the International Truth and Justice Project focusing on violations perpetrated by Sri Lanka’s security and political establishment. In 2020, Piers also joined the team from the Armed Conflict Location and Events Data (ACLED’s) that produces weekly and monthly incident reports and analysis about the insurrection in northern Mozambique. Between 2023 and 2025, Piers was the Southern Africa Programme Head at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africа. Since 2018, Piers has worked on various private sector consultancies including the African Development Bank, Control Risks, Focus Group, Sibanye-Stillwater, and the Rodor Charitable Foundation.