Committee
The CDADI and its expert committees are composed by members (these are representatives of the 46 Council of Europe member States), participants (these are representatives of other Council of Europe bodies, observer States and other international organisations) and observers (including civil society organisations). Details are regulated in Resolution CM/Res(2021)3.
Chair, Vice-Chair & Bureau
Members
ALBANIA
Member:
Robert GAJDA, Commissioner on Protection against Discrimination
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
ARMENIA
Member:
Zoya STEPANYAN, Head of International Human Rights Cooperation Division, Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
AUSTRIA
Members:
Kerstin SITTE, Department II/5 – National Minorities, 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
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
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
Axel Van WEYNENDAELE, Director, Partnerships and transversal and international projects, Support to management bodies - Training of sectors - Consultative function, AVIQ - Walloon Agency for Quality of Life
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Members:
Nina MIŠKOVIĆ, Secretary of the Ministry, Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees
Kemo SARAČ, Assistant Minister, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees
BULGARIA
Member: To be nominated
CROATIA
Member:
Alen TAHIRI, Director, Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities
CYPRUS
Members:
Aristos TSIARTAS, Head Officer of the Human Rights Section, Ministry of Justice and Public Order
Costa GAVRIELIDES, Adviser to the President of Cyprus for Multiculturalism, Acceptance and Respect to Diversity
CZECHIA
Member:
Viktor KUNDRÁK, Director, Department of Human Rights and Protection of Minorities Office
DENMARK
Members:
Andreas LUNN, Head of Section Department for gender Equality, Ministry of Transport Copenhagen
Mahela Madeleine NILSSON, International cooperation, Inclusion & Sustainability | MSc. Development and International Relations | BA Psychology
Andrea BONDE STÜRUP SCHARLING, Ministry of Defense
ESTONIA
Members:
Käthlin SANDER, Head of Equal Opportunities Policy, Equality Policies Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Taavi KOPPEL, Equality Policies Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Kaidi MERISTO, Adviser, Public Law Department, Ministry of Justice
FINLAND
Member:
Corinna TAMMENMAA, Head of Unit, Unit for Autonomy and Equality, Department for Democracy and Public Law, Ministry of Justice
FRANCE
Members:
Olivier KLEIN, Interministerial Delegate for Combating Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH)
Laurence VILLETTE-RICHARD, Justice and International Relations Advisor, Inter-ministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH)
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
Rusudan ASATIANI, Deputy Head of Civic Equality Department, The Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
GERMANY
Members:
Ulrike BENDER, International and European Law, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
Mark KAMPERHOFF, Director of the Department EU policy, Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Lena REINSCHMIDT, EU division, EU coordination, International Affairs , Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
GREECE
Members:
Aikaterini PATSOGIANNI, Secretary General for Equality and Human Rights, Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs
Simon DANIILIDIS, Department of Human Rights, Ministry of Family and Social Cohesion
Nefeli VARTHALITI, Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs
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
Bíbor HOCHMANN, Deputy to the Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Council of Europe
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
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)
Aisling O’GORMAN, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
ITALY
Members:
Mattia PERADOTTO, Head of UNAR Office in the Presidency of the Council of Minister
Nadan PETROVIC, Professor of Strategies of International Cooperation at La Sapienza University of Rome and expert of UNAR - National Office of Racial Anti-Discrimination
LATVIA
Member:
Anta RUTKA-KRIŠKALNE, Head of the Human Rights Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
LIECHTENSTEIN
No member
LITHUANIA
Member:
Kristina VYŠNIAUSKAITĖ-RADINSKIENĖ, Advisor, Human Rights Division, UN, International Organizations and Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
LUXEMBOURG
Members:
Pierre WEISS, Sociologist, Ministry of Family Affairs, Solidarity, Living Together and Reception of Refugees
Laure AMOYEL, Integration Department, Ministry of Family, Integration and Grand Region
MALTA
Members:
Alexander TORTELL, Head of Integration and Anti-Racism Unit, Human Rights Directorate, Office of the Prime Minister
Clayton MERCIECA, Head of SOGIESC Unit, Human Rights Directorate, Office of the Prime Minister
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Member:
Nicolae RĂDIŢA, Deputy of the Director General of the Agency for Interethnic Relations
MONACO
No member
MONTENEGRO
Members:
Irena VARAGIC, Head of Department of EU integration, programming and implementation of EU funds, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights
Ljudmila POPOVIĆ, Acting General director, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights
THE NETHERLANDS
Members:
Basim al ALOUSI, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Richard de GROOT, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
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
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
POLAND
Members:
Iwona RZYMOWSKA, Director, Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, Ministry of Family and Social Policy
Paweł KOSMULSKI, Acting Director, Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, Ministry of Family and Social Policy
PORTUGAL
Members:
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
ROMANIA
Member:
Maria-Beatrice BERNA, Third secretary, Directorate of Human Rights and the Council of Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
SAN MARINO
Member:
Maria GIACOMINI, Second Secretary Department of Foreign Affairs
SERBIA
Members:
Boris MILICEVIC, Assistant Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue
Sanja ATANASKOVIĆ OPAČIĆ, Head of the Group for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Implementation of EU-Funded Projects
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Member: To be nominated
SLOVENIA
Members:
Janez DOLTAR, Acting director, Government Office for National Minorities
Stanko BALUH, Secretary, Government Office for National Minorities
SPAIN
Members:
Nicolás MARUGÁN, Deputy Director General for Equal Treatment and Ethnic Diversity, Ministry of Equality
Carlos MORÁN FERRÉS, Head of Department, Equal Treatment and Ethnic Diversity, Ministry of Equality
SWEDEN
Members:
Erik ADELL HELLSTRÖM, Deputy Director, EU- and International Affairs Coordination, Division for Human Rights and Discrimination Issues, Ministry of Employment
Marie Ek, Division for Discrimination Issues, Human Rights and Child Rights Policy, Ministry of Employment, Stockholm
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
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
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
UNITED KINGDOM
Members:
Sean FINCH, Head of LGBT+ International, Workplace, Asylum and Resettlement, and Hate Crime Policy
Daniel BUCKETT, Senior LBGT+ International and Safety Policy Adviser UK Government’s Equality Hub- LGBT+ Team
Joel SALMON, Team Leader – International, Communities and Integration directorate, Department for levelling up, housing and communities
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;
- 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).
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;
- 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.
The CDADI and its substructures co-operate with civil society in many ways. Some big international networks of civil society organisations have observer status under Article 8 of Resolution CM/Res(2021)3. The CDADI and its expert committees and working groups furthermore involve a broad range of civil society organisations in exchanges of views, thematic discussions and consultation procedures on draft standards, studies and other documents. Civil society organisations, which are interested in getting involved into a specific strand of the work of the CDADI, may contact the Secretariat through our contact-form.
- Rapporteur on Gender Equality
Käthlin SANDER (Estonia)
- Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Axel VAN WEYNENDAELE (Belgium)
- Rapporteur on the rights of Children and Young People
Nicolae RĂDIŢA (Republic of Moldova)
- Wolfram Bechtel
Secretary
- Charlotte Gilmartin
Co-Secretary
- Cristina Milagre
Administrator
- Ljiljana Stojisavljevic
Assistant
- Sandrine Jousse
Assistant