Lydia Vicente (President of the Board)

Lydia Vicente is a Human Rights Lawyer. She is the Executive Director and co-founder of Rights International Spain (http://rightsinternationalspain.org/). She has working experience with International Organisations as part of international peace-keeping missions in Kosovo and Timor-Leste in areas including justice sector reform, international criminal and humanitarian law. She also has experience in conflict-affected areas in the Middle East and North Africa region. Holder of legal qualifications (member of the Madrid Bar Association). She has extensive grass-roots experience, working with development NGO's and national and international human rights organisations both in Spain and in the field (India, Brazil, Bolivia, Kenya) on a wide range of sectors and human rights topics.

Andrea Menapace (Vice-President of the Board)

Andrea is the executive director of CILD (Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights). He previously worked for the Transparency & Accountability Initiative in London and was a researcher for Italy at the Open Government Partnership. Always active in the field of human rights, he began his career as a humanitarian worker before becoming a consultant and researcher for governments as well as non-governmental and international organizations. Co-founder of Diritto Di Sapere (Right To Know), the first Italian organization working on the right of access to information, he graduated in law at the University of Trento.

Nina Kesar (Treasurer)

Nina is a board member of the NJCM (Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights) and chair of the NJCM working group European Law.The NJCM is the Dutch section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). She is the deputy director of Speakers Academy®, Europe’s leading knowledge institute for professional speakers. Nina has a law degree in business and corporate law from the Erasmus School of Law and a law degree in constitutional and administrative Law from Leiden Law School. Her current interests include freedom of speech, criminalisation of speech and privacy.

Natalija Bitiukova

Natalija is a Deputy Director at the Lithuanian watchdog organization Human Rights Monitoring Institute. Before coming back to Lithuania in 2013, Natalija worked for the international human rights organizations Global Network for Public Interest Law (PILnet) and Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). Natalija holds LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the Central European University and is Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe. She has contributed to a number of legislative initiatives in Lithuania, and authored a series of publications in the human rights field. In 2014, she launched a successful Digital Rights initiative to raise awareness on the new technological developments and their effects on the right to privacy in Lithuania.

Małgorzata Szuleka

Małgorzata is a Lawyer and researcher at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Poland. She holds a Master’s degree in Law from Warsaw University. Since December 2009, she has been working at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) where she is responsible for research projects (in cooperation with, among others, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights). She has carried out numerous research projects dedicated to the issues of access to justice, independency of justice, child rights protection, support system for victims of crimes and rights of persons with disabilities. She is also responsible for the communication strategy and advocacy regarding the situation in Poland.

Nancy MacPherson (Independent Board Member)

Nancy is the former Managing Director for Evaluation at the Rockefeller Foundation where she was responsible for setting up and managing the Foundation’s evaluation system from 2008-2018. Prior to her work in philanthropy, she worked in Canada, Asia, Africa and Switzerland for 25 years in international development with indigenous peoples, not-for-profit organizations, and government and UN agencies. She set up and managed IUCN’s Program Evaluation System and served as Special Advisor to the IUCN Director General on Performance Assessment and Oversight. She played a key role in the establishment and nurturing of a number of global and regional development evaluation professional associations, and networks, notably, the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) and the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA). Nancy was a member of the teaching faculty at the World Bank’s summer International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) from 2001-2011 and she is the recipient of the 2015 American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) Enhancing the Public Good Award, presented to an individual whose evaluation work has substantially contributed to the public good.

Balázs Dénes - Executive Director (b dot denes at liberties dot eu)

Israel Butler - Head of Advocacy (i dot butler at liberties dot eu)

Éva Simon - Advocacy Officer (eva dot simon at liberties dot eu)

Vanja Prokic - Head of Communication (v dot prokic at liberties dot eu)

György Folk - Editor-in-Chief (gy dot folk at liberties dot eu)

Orsolya Reich - Advocacy Officer (o dot reich at liberties dot eu)

Jonathan Day - Managing Editor (jday at liberties dot eu)

Michaela Brzezinka - Operations Manager (m dot brzezinka at liberties dot eu)

Belgium

Member Organisation: Ligue des droits de l'homme (Belgique francophone)

Contact person: David Morelli (dmorelli at liguedh dot be)

Bulgaria

Member Organisation: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC)

Contact person: Svetla Baeva (svetla at bghelsinki dot org)

Croatia

Member Organisation: Centre for Peace Studies

Contact person: Lovorka Šošić ( lovorka dot sosic at cms dot hr)

Czech Republic

Member Organisation: Czech League of Human Rights

Contact person: Denisa Kramářová (denisa dot kramarova at llp dot cz), Dan Petrucha (dan dot petrucha at llp dot cz)

Estonia

Member Organisation: Estonian Human Rights Centre

Contact person: Liina Rajaveer (liina dot rajaveer at humanrights dot ee)

Germany

Associated Member Organisation: Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF)

Contact person: Katharina Mikulcak (katharina at freiheitsrechte dot org)

Hungary

Member Organisation: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)

Contact person: András Szeles (szeles at tasz dot hu) Anna Kertész (kertesz dot anna at tasz dot hu)

Italy

Member Organisation: Coalizione Italiana Libertà e Diritti Civili (CILD)

Contact person: Andrea Oleandri (andrea at cild dot eu)

Associated Member Organisation: Associazione Antigone

Contact person: Susanna Marietti (susanna dot marietti at associazioneantigone dot it)

Lithuania

Member Organisation: Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI)

Contact person: Meta Adutaviciute (meta dot adutaviciute at hrmi dot lt) and Mažvydas Karalius (mazvydas dot karalius at hrmi dot lt)

Poland

Member Organisation: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR)

Contact person: Małgorzata Szuleka (m dot szuleka at hfhr dot org dot pl), Marta Agnieszka Borucka (m dot borucka at hfhrpol dot waw dot pl)

Romania

Member Organisation: Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania-the Helsinki Committee (APADOR-CH)

Contact person: Dollores Benezic (dbenezic at apador dot org)

Spain

Member Organisation: Rights International Spain (RIS)

Contact person: Lydia Vicente Márquez (lvicente at rightsinternationalspain dot org), Cristina de la Serna Sandoval (cserna at rightsinternationalspain dot org)

Sweden

Associated Member Organisation: Civil Rights Defenders

Contact person: Gabrielle Gunneberg (gabrielle dot gunneberg at civilrightsdefenders dot org)

Netherlands

Member Organisation: Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights (NJCM)

Contact person: Nina Kesar (NJCM at ninakesar dot nl)

United Kingdom

Associated Member Organisation: Liberty – National Council for Civil Liberties

Contact person: Katie Bamber (katieb at liberty-human-rights dot org dot uk)

Bulgarian - Cveta Stoeva

Croatian - Martina Hrupic

Czech - Radovan Krámár and Denisa Slašťanová

Dutch - Silke Zwijsen

French - Grégoire Fournier

German - Florian Hülsey

Hungarian - Róza Vajda

Italian - Daniela Ronco

Lithuanian - Petras Borisovas

Polish - Hania Robaszkiewicz

Romanian - Oana Girlescu

Spanish - Ethel Odriozola Monzón

Swedish - Alice E. Olsson