Members of the CDADI Bureau

ALBANIA

Member: 

Robert GAJDA, Commissioner on Protection from Discrimination

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​ANDORRA

Members:

Christel CODINA TORRES, Psychologist, Equality Policy Department, Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and Youth

Mireia V. PORRAS GARCÍA, Head of the Equality Policy Service, Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and Youth

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​ARMENIA

Member: 

Zoya STEPANYAN, Head of International Human Rights Cooperation Division, Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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​AUSTRIA

Members: 

Kerstin SITTE, Deputy Head of Department for National Minority Affairs Federal Chancellery

Michael GIRARDI, Head of Department II/1 Integration, Federal Chancellery

Mourad MAHIDI, Head of Unit for minority Issues and Deputy Head of Department, Federal Chancellery

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​AZERBAIJAN

Member: 

Anar ALIZADE, Senior Consultant of the Department for Humanitarian Policy, Multiculturalism and Religious Affairs of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Jala Ibrahimova, Deputy Director, Department for Cooperatoin with International Human Rights Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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​BELGIUM

Members:

Isabelle LECLERCQ, Head of Department, Federal Public Service Justice (FPS), Fundamental Rights Directorate - Equal Opportunities Service

Tom De BRUYN, Deputy to the director at the Agency for Home Affairs, Department of Equal Opportunities, Integration and Civic Integration of the Government of Flanders

Elisabeth MASSIN, Attachée, Directorate of Partnerships and International & Cross-sectoral Projects, Agency for a Quality Life (AViQ), Charleroi

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​BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Members: 

Nina MIŠKOVIĆ, State Secretary, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees

Kemo SARAČ, Assistant Minister, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees

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​BULGARIA

Members:

Irina IVANOVA, Head of the department “Prevention and Protection from Domestic Violence, Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues and Interaction with Civil Society” of the Council of Ministries Administration

Ahavni Topakbachian, State expert in the department “Prevention and protection from domestic violence, cooperation on ethnic and integration issues and interaction with civil society” of the Council of Ministries Administration

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​CROATIA

Member:

Alen TAHIRI, Director of the Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, Government of the Republic of Croatia

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​CYPRUS

Members: 

Aristos TSIARTAS, Head of the Department of Human Rights, Anti-Crime, Correctional Policy and Combating Gender-Based Violence, Ministry of Justice and Public Order

Costa GABRIELIDES, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) Consultant

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​CZECHIA

Member: 

Viktor KUNDRÁK, Director, Department of Human Rights and Protection of Minorities, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Prague

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​DENMARK

Members:

Andreas LUNN, Head of Section Department for gender Equality, Ministry of Transport Copenhagen

Mads REISELBACH MADSEN, Head of Section, Department of Gender Equality, Ministry of Enviornment and Gender Equality

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​ESTONIA

Members:

Käthlin SANDER, Head of Equal Opportunities Policy, Equality Policies Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Tallinn

Taavi KOPPEL, Equality Policies Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Kaidi MERISTO, Adviser, Public Law Department, Ministry of Justice

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​FINLAND

Member: 

Corinna TAMMENMAA, Head of Unit for Autonomy and Equality, Department for Democracy and Public Law, Ministry of Justice

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​FRANCE

Member: 

Laurence VILLETTE-RICHARD, Justice and International Relations Counsellor, Inter-ministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH)

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​GEORGIA

Members: 

Lia GIGAURI, Deputy State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality 

Anuki BURDULI, Senior Specialist at the Human Rights Protection Secretariat Administration

Tinatin GOGHELIANI, Head of Civic Equality Department, Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality

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​GERMANY

Members: 

Ulrike BENDER, Head of Division for Public International and European Law, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, Berlin

Lena REINSCHMIDT, Policy Officer, EU division, EU coordination, International Affairs, Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Berlin

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​GREECE

Members: 

Aikaterini PATSOGIANNI, Secretary General for Equality and Human Rights, ministry of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs

Elisa FEREKIDOU, Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs

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​HUNGARY

Member: 

dr. Bernadett Valéria MARTON-JOHN, Senior Advisor, Unit for OSCE, Council of Europe, Neighbourhood Policy and National Minorities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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​ICELAND

Member: 

Gunnhildur GUNNARSDOTTIR, Ministry of Social affairs and Employment and Ministry of Education and Children representative at Iceland´s mission to the EU, Brussels

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​IRELAND

Members: 

Jane Ann DUFFY, Principal Officer, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Zara LAFFERTY, Assistant Principal Officer, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY)

Valeria SOFIA, Assistant Principal Officer, EU and International Unit, Department of Children, Disability and Equality

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​ITALY

Member: 

Mattia PERADOTTO, Director General, National Office against Racial Discrimination – UNAR, Presidency of the Council of Minister, Rome

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​LATVIA

Member: 

Anta RUTKA-KRIŠKALNE, Head of the Human Rights Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia

Kristine ZINČENKO, Second secretary of the Human Rights Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia

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​LIECHTENSTEIN

No member

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​LITHUANIA

Member: 

Goda RAŠČIŪTĖ, Attachée, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, United Nations, International Organizations and Human Rights Department, Human Rights Division

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​LUXEMBOURG

Members: 

Pierre WEISS, Sociologist, Integration Department, Référent Recherche, formation, Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region

Elisabeth KNEIP, Human Rights Department, Ministry of Justice Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

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​MALTA

Members: 

Clayton MERCIECA, Head (Sexual Diversity, Gender Equality and Mainstreaming), Human Rights Directorate

Annalise DESIRA, Director (Policy), Human Rights Directorate

 

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REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Member: 

Nicolae RĂDIŢA, Deputy of the Director General of the Agency for Interethnic Relations

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​MONACO

No member

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​MONTENEGRO

Member:

To be nominated

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​THE NETHERLANDS

Members: 

Basim al ALOUSI, Senior adviser, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Hague

Marije GRAVEN, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Hague

Richard de GROOT, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Hague

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​NORTH MACEDONIA

Members: 

Svetlana CVETKOVSKA, Head of the Department for Protection and Prevention of All Forms of Discrimination, Sector for Equal Opportunity, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

Mabera KAMBERI, Head of Department for Coordination and Technical Assistant to the Minister, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy

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​NORWAY

Members: 

Petter SØRLIEN, Senior Adviser, Department of Equality, Non-discrimination and International Affairs, Ministry of Culture

Cecilia LYCHE, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Culture

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​ POLAND

Member:
Magdalena DROPEK, Counsellor, Department for Equal Treatment at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Warsaw

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​PORTUGAL

Member:

José Manuel REIS, Director of the Department for the Promotion of Equality, Combat against Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, AIMA – Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum 

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​ROMANIA

Member: 

Bogdan-Ioan PAIU, Diplomatic attaché, Human Rights Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

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​SAN MARINO

Member: 

Maria GIACOMINI, Second Secretary Department of Foreign Affairs

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​SERBIA

Member: 

Ivana SMAILAGIĆ, Advisor, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue of the Republic of Serbia

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​SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Member: 

Tomáš ŠKOPP, Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic

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​SLOVENIA

Members:

Danica POLAK GRUDEN, Director, Government Office for National Minorities

Stanko BALUH, Secretary, Government Office for National Minorities

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​SPAIN

Members: 

Rocío ARIÑO SERRANO, Deputy Director general for equal treatment and non-discrimination and against racism, Ministry of Equality

Ignacio BELLES, Assistant Deputy Director general for equal treatment and non-discrimination and against racism

Mar FERNÁNDEZ SABUGO, Deputy Managing Director of LGTBI Rights, Directorate General for Real and Effective Equality LGTBI

Alberto MARTÍN-PÉREZ, Assistant Deputy Director of LGTBI Rights, Directorate General for Real and Effective Equality LGTBI

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​SWEDEN

Member: 

Erik ADELL HELLSTRÖM, Deputy Director for EU- and International Affairs, Division for Human Rights and Discrimination Issues, Ministry of Employment, Stockholm

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​SWITZERLAND

Members:

Muriel TRUMMER, Lawyer, Legal advisor, Department of Public International Law, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Dominique STEIGER LEUBA, Lawyer, Legal advisor, International Human Rights Protection Unit, Federal Office of Justice, Federal Department of Justice and Police

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​REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE

Members: 

Öner AYDIN, Head of Department, Department of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice

Ozan Muzaffer KÖSTÜ, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice

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​UKRAINE

Members: 

Viktor YELENSKYI, Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience

Ihor LOSSOVSKYI, Deputy Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience

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​UNITED KINGDOM

Members:  

Andrew QUIGLEY, Head of LGBT+ International, Education, Health and Data Policy, Office for Equality and Opportunity, UK Government 

Daniel BUCKETT, Senior LBGT+ International and Safety Policy Adviser UK Government’s Equality Hub- LGBT+ Team

 

 

 

 

The following may send representatives, without the right to vote and at the charge of their corresponding administrative budgets:

• Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe;
• Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe;
•  European Court of Human Rights;
• Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe;
• Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe;
• European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI);
• Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (AC-FCNM);
• Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (COMEX);
• Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB);
• Committees or other bodies of the Council of Europe engaged in related work, as appropriate.

The following may send representatives, without the right to vote and without defrayal of expenses:

• European Union (one or more representatives, including, as appropriate, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA);
• Observer States to the Council of Europe: Canada, Holy See, Japan, Mexico, United States of America;
• Other international organisations, including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), United Nations (including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Bank, and other relevant UN agencies), and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The following may send representatives, without the right to vote and without defrayal of expenses:

• non-member States with which the Council of Europe has a Neighbourhood Partnership including relevant co-operation activities;
• European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) and European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet);
• non-governmental organisations and specialised institutions (Amnesty International, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme (LICRA), European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Assembly of European Regions (AER) and ILGA Europe) and academic, professional and business communities.