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The Foundation is administered by a five-member Governing Board whose current composition is as follows: * President: Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos, Professor Emerita and former Rector, Panteion University, Athens * Vice-President: Gerasimos Arsenis, former Minister and former Governor of the Bank of Greece * Secretary-General: Antonis Bredimas, Law Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens * Treasurer:Sotiris Mousouris, former Assistant Secretary-General, UN * Member: Petros Damianos, High School Director, Avlona’s Special Juvenile Detention Center The Foundation is directed by Mr. Spyridon-Heracles Aktypis (Ph.D. in International Law from the University Panthéon-Assas Paris II), Associate Professor at the European University Cyprus and at the Open University of Cyprus. The International Advisory Committee of the Foundation is comprised of the following experts: * Prof. A. Baka, Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Director, School of Public Administration; Budapest, Hungary * Ass. Prof. Dr. W. Benedek, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz; Austria * Prof. D. Bindschedler-Robert, former Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Bern, Switzerland * Prof. T. van Boven, Director, Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, University of Limburg; Maastricht, The Netherlands * Prof. G. Cohen-Jonathan, University of Pantheon-Assas (Paris II); Honorary Dean of the School of Law, University of Strasbourg; France * Judge H. Danelius, Swedish Supreme Court; former Vice-President of the European Commission of Human Rights; Stockholm, Sweden * Prof. E. Decaux, University of Paris-X, Nanterre; France * Prof. M. Delmas-Marty, Institut Universitaire de France, Universite de Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris I); Directeur de l'Institut de Droit Compare; Paris, France * A. Eide, Director, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights; Member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; Oslo, Norway * Prof. R. Levine, School of Medicine, University of Yale; New Haven, USA * L. Loucaides, Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Nicosia, Cyprus * Prof. C. Medina, University of Diego Portales; Member of the ICCPR Committee; Santiago, Chile * Prof. W. Schabas, National University of Ireland; Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights; Ireland * Prof. P. de Senarclens, University of Lausanne; former Director of Human Rights Division, UNESCO; President of OMCT; Geneva, Switzerland * Prof. D. Shelton, University of Santa Clara; California, USA * Prof. Dr. B. Simma, Director, Institut fur Internationales Recht-Volkerrecht, Ludwig Maximilians University; Munich, Germany * Prof. D. Simon, Institut Universitaire de France, Robert Schuman University; Strasbourg, France * Prof. L. Wiseberg, Executive Director, Human Rights Internet; Ottawa, Canada The Foundation's staff works in departments focused on specific fields, as follows: * Scientific and Research Department * Judicial and Extra-judicial Department * Administrative Department, including the library section * Youth group Experts and external researchers collaborate on a temporary basis, according to the needs of the Foundation and on certain special issues. |
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