Alexander McLean

Alexander McLean (born 1985) is a British activist, humanitarian, and lawyer. He is the founder of Justice Defenders (formerly African Prisons Project, or APP), which is based in Uganda and seeks to improve the lives of people imprisoned in Africa. His father is Jamaican and worked as a retired tool maker while his mother was from Surrey and worked for United Airways. There, he was motivated to start Justice Defenders in 2007 after observing that prison inmates were not given proper medical care and seeing the conditions at Luzira Upper Prison. After coming back to the United Kingdom, McLean fund-raised to provide good health facilities and educate inmates in Ugandan prisons about the law, beginning the organization.

McLean attended the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2007. Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize 2020 Qatar Foundation WISE Award 2020