GOVERNANCE
The multi-actor Advisory Board contributes to CEDI's strategy.
At the administrative level, CEDI is a non-profit association registered in France.
ADVISORY BOARD
The composition of our Advisory Board reflects our multi-actor approach and comprises
5 Core States, 5 civil society representatives and 5 leading experts
We are extremely grateful to our Advisory Board Members for their strategic guidance and support.
The Advisory Board is yet to be completed with 2 Core States.
CORE STATES
Argentina
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France
Morocco
Samoa
Civil Society Representatives
Federico Andreu-Guzmán (Colombia)
International human rights lawyer specialised in enforced disappearances, especially mechanisms for the search of disappeared persons, formerly at Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and the Colombian Commission of Jurists
Mary Aileen Diez Bacalso (The Philippines)
President of the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED), former Secretary General of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD).
Isatou Jammeh (The Gambia)
The Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations.
Saad Hussein (Iraq)
Chairman of Initiators Organization for Human Rights and Democracy (IOHRD)
Mandira Sharma (Nepal)
Senior International Legal Adviser, International Commission of Jurists Asia and Pacific Office
Grazyna Baranowska (Poland)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin, Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Delphine Djiraïbé (Chad)
Human rights lawyer and co-founder of the Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, founder of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC)
Olivier de Frouville (France)
Professor of Public Law at the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas), Director of the Paris Human Rights Center (C.R.D.H.) and member of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Luciano Hazan (Argentina)
Human rights lawyer, former member of the UN WGEID and CED, Head of the Program against Institutional Violence at the Federal Public Defender’s Office of Argentina
Wilder Tayler (Uruguay)
Director of the National Institution for Human Rights and the Ombudsman's Office (Institución Nacional de Derechos Humanos y Defensoría del Pueblo)
Leading Experts
ASSOCIATION
CEDI is a non-profit association registered in France.
CEDI is honored to have Professor Emmanuel Decaux as its President. Professor Decaux is a former member of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (2011-2019) and was his first Chairperson (2012-2017).
Its other Administrative Board Members are:
Prof. Florence Bellivier Vice-President
Prof. Marina Eudes Treasurer
Prof. Julia Grignon Secretary
Ms. Anna Glazewski Deputy Secretary