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: Etleva Sheshi, Director of Social Protection and Gender Equality Policies, Ministry 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: Fakhri Karimli, Head of Section, Department of Cooperation with International Human Rights Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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
CZECHIA
Katerina Bursikova Jacques, Department of Human Rights and Protection of Minorities, Office of the Government of Czechia
Substitute member: Thuy Dieu Nguyen, Department of Human Rights and Protection of Minorities, Office of the Government of Czechia
DENMARK
Member:
Substitute member:
ESTONIA
Member: Mall Saul, Chief Specialist
FINLAND
Member: Janette Grönfors, National Advisory Board on Romani Affairs, Ministry for Social Affairs and Health
FRANCE
Member: Manuel Demougeot, Director of Cabinet of the 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, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
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: Evangelia Zerva, Department for Roma Inclusion Design, Coordination and Monitoring, General Secretariat for Social Solidarity and Fight Against Poverty Hellenic Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family
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: Ilona Jekele, Head of Social Integration and Civil Society Development division at the Ministry of Culture
Substitute member: Darja Kulagina, Senior Officer at the Social Integration and Civil Society Development division at the Ministry of Culture
LIECHTENSTEIN
Member:
Substitute member:
LITHUANIA
Member: Gražina Sluško, Chief specialist, Relations with National Communities Division, Department of National Minorities under the 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: Diane Muscat Vella, Director General, Department for Industrial and Employment Relations within the Office of the Prime Minister
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, Support Unit for Roma Communities, High Commission for Migration
ROMANIA
Member: Iulian 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: Nina Mitić, Assistant Minister, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue
Substitute member: Sofija Osmanović, Head of Unit for Improving the Position of Roma, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Member: Tibor Škrabský, Director of the Department of Programming, Monitoring and Evaluation of Policies, 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: Ignacio BOLEA, Deputy Director General of Social Services, , Ministry of Social Rights, Consume Affairs and 2030 Agenda
SWEDEN
Member: Dennis Wiklund, Desk Officer, Ministry of Culture
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: Claire Hoskins, Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Substitute member: Sean Bianco, Policy Advisor, Hate Crime and Community Tensions Policy Team
Non-Member states having observer status with the Council of Europe
HOLY SEE
Member: Alessandra Silvi, Official of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
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;
- 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;
- Open Society Foundations (OSF);
- Phiren Amenca International Network;
- Roma Education Fund (REF);
- RROMEUROPE;
- ternYpe International Roma Youth Network.
Chair
- Manuel Demougeot (France)
Vice-Chair
- Iulian Paraschiv (Romania)
Rapporteurs
Antigypsyism, Hate Speech and Violence
- Alen Tahiri (Croatia)
- Nicolae Radita (Republic of Moldova), Substitute
Gender Equality
- Mabera Kamberi (North Macedonia)
- Fotini Vlachaki (Greece), Substitute
Childrens’ rights
- Maria Yiangou Theodorou (Cyprus)
Youth
- Tamas Szondy (Hungary)
- Berill Baranyai (Portugal), Substitute
Eleni Tsetsekou, Secretary to the ADI-ROM
Oana Taba, Co-Secretary to the ADI-ROM
Daria Cherepanova, Assistant to the ADI-ROM