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Gerd Greune President gerd@ifias.net / gerd@internews.fr The right to conscientious objection was Gerd Greune's first political issue, developing into a general involvement in the German and international Peace movement and campaigning agains the stationing of nuclear weapons in Europe and nuclear arms in general. From 1986-1997 he worked as a political advisor to the Executive Board of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany. He has founded IFIAS Brussels in 1997. His interests are particularly Human Rights, Freedom of Media, anti-militarisation and conflict resolution. As President of IFIAS, he represents the organisation and is responsible together with the Board for the general directions of IFIAS projects. |
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Kostyantin Kvurt Vice President kkvurt@internews.ua Kostyantin Kvurt uses his vast media experience to develop training, production andadvocacy programs for Ukrainian independent broadcast media professionals.Kostyantin Kvurt is highly respected as a media expert and is a member of thePresident's National Commission for Freedom of Speech and Development of the Information Sphere, and the Verkhovna Rada Public Council for Freedom of Speech and Information. He has lobbied hard for fair media laws and legislation that support the development of independent media in Ukraine. As Vice-President of IFIAS he is responsible for programming and administration of projects in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. |
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Mazen Darwich Vice President May1868@gmail.com Mazen Darwich graduated in Law and has been working as a Human Rights activist and free lance journalist for many years. He has funded the Syrian Center for Journalism and Freedom of Speech in Damascus. As Vice-President he is responsible for Programming and Administration in the Mashreq region and South East Anatolia. |
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Farid Ghrich Vice President Fg__@hotmail.com Farid Ghrich studied human sciences, journalism and international relations in Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels and Granada (Spain). He has been working as journalist for Belgian and European publications and news agencies on international questions, cultural issues and social matters. He also has experience working for the European Commission (DG AIDCO), managing macro-economical reforms programs and structural adjustment plans in the Mediterranean region. After some time as advisor for NATO he now works as a freelance journalist and project manager in Rabat. In IFIAS he is responsible for programming and managing of projects in the Maghreb region and West-Africa. |
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Walter Vermander Treasurer Walter.vermander@minfin.fed.be Walter Vermander studied international politics and criminology at the Brussels Free University. Before joining the Belgian Ministry of Finance in 1992, he used to work as a consultant for different environment and development NGOs. During the last decades he gained extensive travel experience in the whole of eastern-and central Europe and the Amazon region. His main interest in the NGO field is to find specific ways to get mostly small organisations with limited human and financial resources functioning. Besides supervising IFIAS finance, he is responsible for drafting and managing projects in Latin America. |
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Further Board members: Jelena von Helldorff Jelena von Helldorff is a lawyer specialised in European policy and international relations. Her professional development has been closely linked to the EU institutions and policies, especially in the filed of migration, governance banking and financial services. In the last couple of years she has specialised in policy advising mainly in the area of Justice and Home affairs, including migration, trafficking in human beings and the protection of victims, fundamental rights, visa, border control and the fight against terrorism. The geographical scope of her activities also extends to the countries in transition, notably in the area of South East Europe. |
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Jo Leinen MEP Jo Leinen supports IFIAS since the beginning. He has been campaigning together with Gerd Greune already in the 80s against the stationing of nuclear weapons in Europe and is a strong supporter of a nuclear-weapon-free Europe. He also very much supports civil society initiatives and is an affiliated member of the Commission for Human Rights in the European Parliament. |
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Miki de Deo Mihailovic Miki de Deo Mihailovic is a Psychologist and President of IFIAS Partner organisation "Psycho Invest" in Bela Crkva, Serbia, where IFIAS has an office since 1992. He has been particularly active in our refugee programs working with traumatized women and children, victims of war or being displaced. He has recently worked in the PRIDE project in Palestine and is an expert on integrating sport into rehabilitation programs. |
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Mario Gongolsky President IFIAS Germany info@mediaclinic.de Mario works as freelance journalist, running his own network of freelancers called "MediaClinic". Most of the delivered content is focusing on radio, internet and medicine. Mario has specialised in the field of how digital media can affect social development. He is related to IFIAS since 2001, was involved in several projects and will bring IFIAS forward in the matters of communication and interactive collaboration. More about Mario can be found here: http://www.mediaclinic.de/personell/gongo.shtml (actually only in German) |
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Susanne Drake drake@forumzfd.de / Sdrake06@yahoo.de After working for the SPD-delegation in the European Parliament from 1992-1997, she was a co-funder of IFIAS in Brussels. She has written and managed several projects with IFIAS and partner organizations. After 10 years of being IFIAS Director, Susanne has headed for new challenges. From 1st February 2008 she acts as regional coordinator Palestine for the German NGO “forum ZFD” with her working place in Jerusalem. |
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