Composition of the Committee
The ADI-ROM consists of representatives of the member states of the Council of Europe, as well as participants and observers.
Members
ALBANIA
Member: Ina Majko, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection
ANDORRA
Member:
Substitute member:
ARMENIA
Member: Haykanush Chobanyan, Deputy head of International Co-operation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Substitute member:
AUSTRIA
Member: Simone Daxecker, Federal Chancellery of Austria
Substitute member: Kerstin Sitte, Federal Chancellery of Austria
AZERBAIJAN
Member:
Substitute member: Narmin Mammadli, 3rd Secretary, Department of Cooperation with International Human Rights Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
BELGIUM
Member: Ahmed Ahkim, Directeur, Centre de Médiation des Gens du Voyage; Daphné Costes, Policy Advisor, Agency of Home Affairs, Flanders; Joenah Malot, Anti-Poverty and Urban Cohesion Department
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Member: Kemo Sarač, Assistant Minister, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees
Substitute member: Aleksandra Jaric, Head of Department, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees
BULGARIA
Member: Ahavni Topakbachian, State Expert, Secretariat of the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues
CROATIA
Member: Alen Tahiri, Director, Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities
Substitute member: Aleksa Đokić, Head of Service, Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities
CYPRUS
Member: Maria Theodorou Yiangou, Welfare officer, Deputy Ministry Social Welfare
CZECH REPUBLIC
Member: Dieu Thuy Nguyen, Human Rights and Protection of Minorities Department, Government Office of the Czech Republic
Substitute member: Klára Kameníková, Human Rights and Protection of Minorities Department, Government Office of the Czech Republic
DENMARK
Member:
Substitute member:
ESTONIA
Member: Anne-Ly Reimaa, Advisor, Cultural Diversity Department, Ministry of Culture
FINLAND
Member: Janette Grönfors, National Advisory Board on Romani Affairs, Ministry for Social Affairs and Health
FRANCE
Member: : Sophia Raji, Project Manager, Policy Steering, Slum Clearance, Interministerial Delegate for Accommodation and Access to Housing (DIHAL), Ministry of Territorial Cohesion
Substitute member : Andréa Dague, Education and Children's Rights Adviser, Interministerial Delegate for Accommodation and Access to Housing (DIHAL), Ministry of Territorial Cohesion
Substitute member : Jean-Paul Bachelot, Education and Children's Rights Adviser, Interministerial Delegate for Accommodation and Access to Housing (DIHAL), Ministry of Territorial Cohesion
GEORGIA
Member: Tinatin Ghogheliani, Head of the Civic Equality Department, Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
GERMANY
Member: Carolin Jauß, Desk Officer, Division for National Minorities in Germany, European Policy on Minorities, Federal Ministry of the Interior
GREECE
Member: Fotini Vlachaki, Department for Roma Inclusion Support Assessment Documentation and Specialisation, General Secretariat for Social Solidarity and Fight Against Poverty, Hellenic Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family
Substitute member:
HUNGARY
Member: Tamás Szondy, Desk Officer, Department of International Affairs in Care Policy, Deputy State Secretariat for Social Affairs, Ministry of Interior
Substitute member:
ICELAND
Member:
Substitute member:
IRELAND
Member: Conor McGinn, Assistant Principal Officer, Traveller and Roma Policy Unit, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
ITALY
Member: Roberto Bortone, National Office for Racial Anti-Discrimination (U.N.A.R.), Department for Equal Opportunities, Presidency of the Council of Ministers
LATVIA
Member:
Substitute member:
LIECHTENSTEIN
Member:
Substitute member:
LITHUANIA
Member: Eglė Kiuraitė, Chief specialist, Relations with National Communities Division, Department of National Minorities under Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Substitute member:
LUXEMBOURG
Member: Mariana Muzzi, Ministry of Family Affairs, Solidarity, Living Together and Reception of Refugees
MALTA
Member: Gianluca Galea, : Compliance Executive, Department for Industrial and Employment Relations within the Office of the Prime Minister
Substitute member:
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Member: Nicolae Rădiţa, Deputy Director of the Agency for Interethnic Relations
Substitute member: Olga Petuhova, Deputy Chief, Agency for Interethnic Relations
MONACO
Member:
Substitute member:
MONTENEGRO
Member: Sokolj Beganaj, Head of the Department for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Roma and Egyptians, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights
Substitute member: Dragana Živković, Advisor, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights
THE NETHERLANDS
Member:
Substitute member:
NORTH MACEDONIA
Member: Mabera Kamberi, Head of Department for Coordination and Technical Assistant to the Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
NORWAY
Member: Kristina Strædet Gitmark, Specialist Director, Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
Substitute member: Cecilie Haare, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
POLAND
Member: Martyna Łyszka, Chief Specialist, Department of Religious Denominations and National and Ethnic Minorities, Ministry of the Interior and Administration
PORTUGAL
Member: Berill Baranyai, Senior Officer, Agency for Integration, Migraion and Asylum (AIMA)
ROMANIA
Member: Iulian Costel Paraschiv, President, Secretary of State, National Authority for Roma
Substitute member: Iulian-Ginel Stoian, Head of Unit, Unit for Public Policies, National Authority for Roma
SAN MARINO
Member:
Substitute member:
SERBIA
Member: Simona Popovic, Assistant Minister, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue
Substitute member: Sofija Osmanović, Head of the Department for improving of the position of Roma, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Member: Jozef Facuna, Senior state advisor, Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic
SLOVENIA
Member: Stanko Baluh, Director of the Office for National Minorities, Government of the Republic of Slovenia
Substitute member: Marcela Novljan Lovrincic, Senior Adviser, Government Office for National Minorities
SPAIN
Member: María Dolores Ruiz Bautista, Deputy Director for Social Services, Ministry of Social Rights, Consume Affairs and 2030 Agenda
Substitute member:
SWEDEN
Member: Idun Wiberg, Department Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Unit for Language, National Minorities and Archives
Substitute member:
SWITZERLAND
Member: Rosalita Giorgetti-Marzorati, Scientific collaborator, Federal Department of Home Affairs, Federal Office of Culture, Language and Society Service
Substitute member:
REPUBLIC OF TÜRKIYE
Member: Burak KARAGÖLGE, Assistant Expert, Directorate General of Family and Community Services - Department of Social Cohesion, Ministry of Family and Social Services
Substitute member: Ensar Berkay SELÇUK, Assistant Expert, Directorate General of Family and Community Services - Department of Social Cohesion, Ministry of Family and Social Services
UKRAINE
Member: Viktor Yelenskyi, Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience
Substitute member: Ihor Lossovskyi, Deputy Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience
UNITED KINGDOM
Member: Angharad Thain, Team Leader – London and the South Community Cohesion Unit, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Substitute member: Simon Jones, Head of Community Cohesion Unit Area Teams, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Non-Member states having observer status with the Council of Europe
HOLY SEE
Member: Nicolas Bauer, Expert representing the Holy See at meetings of the Committee of Experts on Roma and Travellers Issues (ADI-ROM)
Participants
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;
- Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights;
- Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe;
- Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB);
- European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI);
- Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities;
- Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;
- Committees or other bodies of the Council of Europe engaged in related work as appropriate.
The following may send a representative without the right to vote and without defrayal of expenses:
- European Union (one or more representatives, including its Fundamental Rights Agency- FRA);
- Observer States to the Council of Europe: Canada, Holy See, Japan, Mexico, United States of America;
- other international organisations, including the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), United Nations (including its specialised agencies, programmes, funds and other entities), Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), World Health Organization (WHO) – Regional Office for Europe, World Bank, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI).
Observers
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;
- Amnesty International;
- Eurochild
- European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet);
- European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI);
- European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF);
- European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network (ERGO);
- European Roma Information Office (ERIO);
- European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC);
- European Roma Organisation (ERO);
- European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC);
- Forum of European Roma Young People (FERYP);
- International Roma Women’s Network IRWN/Phenjalipe;
- Phiren Amenca International Network;
- Roma Education Fund (REF);
- Roma Foundation for Europe (RFE)
- RROMEUROPE;
- ternYpe International Roma Youth Network.
Chair
- Iulian Paraschiv (Romania)
Vice-Chair
- Roberto Bortone (Italy)
Rapporteurs
Antigypsyism, hate speech and hate crime
- Mabera Kamberi (North Macedonia)
- Roberto Bortone (Italy), Substitute
Gender Equality
- Ina Majko (Albania)
Children and youth
- Maria Yiangou Theodorou (Cyprus)
- Rosalita Giorgetti-Marzorati (Switzerland)
Right to education
- Iulian Stoian (Romania)
Eleni Tsetsekou, Secretary to the ADI-ROM
Oana Taba, Co-Secretary to the ADI-ROM
Daria Asaro, Assistant to the ADI-ROM
