GOVERNANCE

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
Isatou (Ayeshah) 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
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).

ASSOCIATION

CEDI is a non-profit association registered in France.

CEDI is honored to have Olivier de Frouville as its President. Olivier de Frouville is a former member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (2019-2026), which he chaired from 2023-2025, and a former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2008-2014).

Its other Administrative Board Members are:

Florence Bellivier, Vice-President
Julia Grignon, Vice-President
Julien Antouly, Treasurer
Ghislain Mabanga, Secretary-General
Anna Glazewski, Deputy Secretary-General

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Membership Form

LEADING EXPERTS

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)

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

We are extremely grateful to our Advisory Board Members for their strategic guidance and support.