Our staff
Geneva Staff
Patrick Mutzenberg
Director
Andrea Meraz Sepulveda
Programme Manager
Làzarie Eeckeloo
Human Rights Officer
Paola Barioli
Communications Officer
Regional Coordinators
André Afanou
West Africa Office Coordinator
Daisuke Shirane
Asia Pacific Office Coordinator
Abigail Koshimo Brown
Human Rights Officer Asia Pacific
Rustam Kypshakbayev
Central Asia Office Coordinator
Elisabeth Jimenez
Latin America Office Coordinator (Till June 2021)
Mariel Merayo
Latin America Office Coordinator (Since July 2021)
Patricia Tarre
Latin America Office Coordinator (Since December 2021)
National Coordinators
Ekaterina Kavlis
National Coordinator for Kazakhstan
Heidy Alachan
National Coordinator for Honduras
Kevin Mwangi
National Coordinator for Kenya
Lesly Ramirez
National Coordinator for Guatemala
Nadia Soundy
National Coordinator for El Salvador
Consultants
Chris Caskey
Nicolas-Braguinsky Cascini
Sophia Mård
Valentyna Nechyporenko
Finance and Accounting
Palma Monferrer and Marc Abersold
Solution 7
Interns
Amanda Alonso
Daniella Ferreira
Tadeja Urbas
Webmaster and IT Support
Codex Design
Haewen Fortunato
Graphic Design
Celacanto Productions
Gabriel Hernández
Our board
President
Costa Rica
Former Member of the HR Committee and SPT, Human Rights professor and President of Inter-American Institute of Social Responsibility and Human Rights
Vice President
Somalia
Executive Director of the DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) and Chairperson of the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRD-Net)
Switzerland
Secretary General of "Les Verts Suisses" and Former Head of PRI-International
Germany
GANHRI Geneva Representative
Our advisory board
Tunisia
Journalist, Human Rights Activist and President of the Conseil National pour les Libertés en Tunisie, Tunisian NGO
Portugal
Senior Social Policy Adviser in the Ministry of Employment, Solidarity and Social Security of Portugal and former Chair of the ESCR Committee
USA
Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights & former Vice-Chair and member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2015-2018)
Australia
Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law – Monash University (Melbourne) – Australia
Iceland
Former Chief of the Communications Branch of the OHCHR and Former Judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Colombia
Professor, Former Member of the UN Human Rights Committee
Sweden
Judge, Former Member of the Human Rights Committee