Members of Our Board

Julie Broome

Independent Board Member
Julie Broome has been Director of Ariadne since 2016. She has over 20 years of experience in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors, with a particular focus on human rights and transitional justice. She served as Director of Programmes at the Sigrid Rausing Trust, where she oversaw grantmaking to human rights organisations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas, and previously managed technical rule of law assistance programmes in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia with the CEELI Institute in Prague and the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, an MA in International Studies from the University of Washington, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has an interest in bridging research and practice and is currently the chair of the advisory board of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.

Georgiana Gheorghe

Vice President of the Board
Georgiana Gheorghe is the executive director of APADOR-CH, a 30-year-old human rights organization based in Bucharest, Romania. She has 13 years of working experience in non-governmental organizations in Central and Eastern Europe (Romania, Hungary, and Latvia). Prior to being appointed director in 2018, she was working mainly on APADOR-CH's criminal justice projects. Through the years she has been involved in research, advocacy and strategic litigation in various human rights areas: access to information of public interest; transparency in the decision-making process; police reform; rights of people deprived of liberty; and rights of people with mental disabilities. Georgiana studied political science at Bucharest University and has an M.A. in international human rights law from the Legal Studies Department of Central European University.

Martynas Jockus

Member of the Board
Martynas Jockus is the director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI), a 20-year-old organisation based in Lithuania with a successful history of landmark strategic litigation cases and human rights-promoting advocacy. He has a political science background with a master's degree in social and political critique. Martynas' work in Lithuania is focused on promoting public participation and facilitating social inclusion. He works with the HRMI team to increase government accountability and ensure national policy and practice uphold international human rights standards.

Krassimir Kanev

President
Dr. Krassimir Kanev graduated in 1982 from Sofia University. Specialized Human Rights and Religious Freedom at Columbia University in 1996-97. For 10 years he taught an introductory course on international human rights at Sofia State University. Has also taught sociology, sociology of law, critical social theory, environmental studies and international human rights in a number of colleges and universities in Bulgaria and abroad, among them the Plovdiv State University, the University of Oregon, the University of Sarajevo and the Central European University. Since 2003 teaches online courses for a US-based organization Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) for human rights professionals. Has taught courses on UN mechanisms for human rights protection for lawyers from several East European countries. Started human rights work in 1988. Has been and continues to be an activist in a number of human rights and environmental NGOs. Since 1994 – Director of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. In the past, he has also been member of the boards of a number of international human rights NGOs and institutions. At present, he is Vice-President of the European Prison Litigation Network, director emeritus of PILnet, member of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, member of the Board of the Association for the Prevention of Torture and member of the Board of the International Partnership for human rights. Dr Kanev successfully represents clients before the European Court of Human Rights on a variety of human rights violations.

Sara Lalic

Member of the Board
Sara Lalić is the program director of Centre for Peace Studies (CPS), a civil society organization based in Zagreb, Croatia. She has been active in civil society for 15 years, working on various human rights and social justice issues, such as combating racism, xenophobia, and related discrimination and hate speech; Roma rights; asylum and migration; right to assembly; civic space and protection of public goods. During her professional and activist engagement in CPS, she has been involved in research, campaigning, and advocacy, and was a civil society representative in a number of advisory bodies and working groups for drafting public policies in the field of human rights and civil society at the national level. She is currently an external member of the Croatian Parliament Committee on Human and National Minority Rights. She is active in several civil society networks at the national and European level. Sara has a B.A. in sociology and comparative literature, and an M.A. in sociology.

Pierre-Arnaud Perrouty

Member of the Board
Pierre-Arnaud Perrouty is the executive director of the Belgian Human Rights League (Ligue des droits humains), a 120-year-old organization based in Brussels. He holds a degree in law from Brussels University (ULB) and in European law from Oxford University. He has over 20 years of experience in human rights, with a special focus on civil liberties, equality and diversity issues. He also has extensive experience in strategic litigation, both in Belgium and before European and international courts and committees. He is a Board member of Unia, an independent public institution promoting equality and fighting discrimination, and of Myria, the Federal Migration Center. He is also an appointed member of the Belgian Deontology Press Council. He is regularly invited in the media to comment on human rights issues.

Máté Szabó

Treasurer
Máté Szabó works as the Director of Programs at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU, Budapest), where he is responsible for the supervision of holding various strategic litigation cases by the organization before domestic, lower and higher, and international courts as well. Previously he was the director of Eötvös Károly Policy Institute (Budapest, Hungary). He had also been a senior lecturer at the University of Miskolc’s Department of Information and Media Law. Szabó is a lawyer specializing in the protection of fundamental freedoms and informational rights; he obtained his PhD degree at ELTE University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2011.
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