Vanessa Lynch

Executive Director of The DNA Project

Born 30-11-1968 in Kenya

Vanessa Lynch (BA LLB), (Executive Director and founder of the DNA Project): qualified as an attorney from UCT in 1993 and after completing her articles, worked as a Commercial Attorney in London. On returning from London in 1998, Vanessa Lynch entered the Corporate World and worked as the Legal Advisor in a Smart Company, which she helped to set up. Vanessa gave up her full-time job in 2005, in order to undertake the DNA Project on a full-time basis. Vanessa’'s legal background and her acquired skills in drafting and research, together with an innate determination and ability to 'think on her feet', are the ingredients required to fulfil the objectives of the DNA Project.