The Board is the highest authority of the Foundation and is in charge of:
- All decisions on grants
- The implementation of the objectives and statutes of the Foundation.
The Board meets twice a year to develop an effective strategy to support human rights defenders and organisations in the South-Mediterranean region.
The Board consists of twelve members who provide broad representation in the decision-making while ensuring transparency and efficiency of the operations.
The Board members fulfil their functions on a voluntary basis and are nominated for a six-year term, renewable.
Current Members
President |
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| Kamel Jendoubi
Honorary President of EuroMed Rights, former Minister in charge of relations with Constitutional Bodies, Civil Society and Human Rights 2015-2016, former President of the Independent Higher Electoral Commission (ISIE) 2011, former member of the executive board of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Tunisia. |
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Treasurer |
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| Marc Schade-Poulsen
PhD in social anthropology, Visiting Researcher at Roskilde University, former Executive Director of EuroMed Rights, Denmark. |
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Ordinary Members |
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| Ziad Abdeltawab
Executive Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and a member of the IFEX Council, Egypt. |
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| Mariah Al Abdeh
Former Executive Director of Women Now for Development, Recipient of the Award of Feminine Success in France in 2016, Syria. |
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| Saïd Benarbia
Jurist and Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Morocco. |
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| Sara Guillet
Consultant in human rights project design, monitoring and evaluation, former Representative of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) to the United Nations in Geneva, France. |
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| Brigitte Herremans
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University, studying the potential of literary writing to counter the erasure and invisibilisation of injustice and to ‘open up’ the imagination of justice, Belgium. |
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| Malek Kefif
Member of the National Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking in Tunisia, former Member of the High Council for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 2012-2014, former Member of the Executive Committee of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) 2015-2018 and founding member of the association Amal for the family and the child, Tunisia. |
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| Hanny Megally
Member of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation focusing on violent extremism, human rights and rule of law, former Chief for Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Egypt. |
| Habib Nassar
Lawyer and Senior Human Rights Officer at the Independent Institution for Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic, former Director of Policy and Research at Impunity Watch, Lebanon. |
| Leila Rhiwi
Former Representative UN Women Multi-Country Office for the Maghreb, former President of the Democratic Association of Moroccan Women (ADFM), Morocco. |
| Lynn Welchman
Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), Member of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, member of the Board at the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, United Kingdom. |