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Global Dialogue Board of Trustees

The Trustees of Global Dialogue are:

Caoilfhionn Gallager,  a human rights and civil liberties specialist, with particular expertise in prison law and community care for children and vulnerable adults. She has been appointed as a Council of Europe expert on Articles 10 and 11 ECHR. Caoilfhionn has extensive experience in urgent and out-of-hours judicial review work and assist solicitors unfamiliar with urgent procedures. In addition to litigation dealing with human rights issues, Caoilfhionn undertakes human rights consultancy and advisory services for many UK and Irish clients, including NGOs, the Ministry of Justice/ Department of Constitutional Affairs, and Irish government departments.

Joni Lovenduski, is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is director of the Masters Course in Government Policy and Politics. She is European convener of the European Science Foundation funded Research Network on Gender and the State. In 2009 she won the Gender and Politics Award by the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.

Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News London correspondent, previously based in Moscow (2000-03). Since the Sept 11 events, Elizabeth spent much of her CBS News tenure reporting on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and on politics and foreign policy in Iran, Syria and the Middle East. Palmer received the 1994 Science Writers of Canada Award for Best Television Documentary, the 1995 New York Television and Radio Award for Best News Feature and the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Award for her coverage of the Beslan school hostage siege in Russia.

Jackie Perkins has an extensive experience of political work in the Levant and the Gulf. She worked as Strategic Policy Adviser in the Middle East for the past 2 years and as Regional Adviser, Engaging with the Arab World in Bahrain. She was also the Head of Political, Economic and Development Section in Cairo, leading on the Embassy’s political reporting, especially on Egypt’s external relations, MEPP and the Arab League. Jacky is now part of Arab Human Development Team’s Middle East and North Africa Department.

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Global Dialogue Management

Andrew Puddephatt, CEO

Andrew Puddephatt is a CEO of Global Dialogue. He has worked to promote human rights for twenty years and has specific expertise in programme development and evaluation with a focus upon transparency, the role of media in society, and implementing human rights. Andrew has led human rights organisations in the not-for-profit sector for more than fifteen years. He was Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, a pioneering organisation working on freedom of expression from 1999 to 2004; Director of Charter88, the UK's leading constitutional reform organization, between 1995 and 1999; and General Secretary of Liberty, the principal domestic human rights organisation in the UK, between 1989 and 1995. Andrew has played a leading role in securing a Bill of Rights for the UK and in January 2003 was awarded an OBE for his services to human rights. He is an expert representative of the Council of Europe, the EU and the Commonwealth Expert working groups on freedom of information and freedom of expression and holds several Board positions in the non-profit and public sector.

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Project Staff

Nurcan Kaya, Director of Strategic Fund for Turkey

Nurcan is a lawyer specialising in human rights – in particular minority rights, equality, anti-discrimination remedies under international human rights and European Union law - and violence against women. She holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of Essex. She has worked as an expert/researcher at the Human Rights Law Research Center of the Istanbul Bilgi University. Nurcan has worked for Minority Rights Group International as Anti-Discrimination Law Officer and is currently working as Cyprus Coordinator for the same organisation. Initially a consultant for Sigrid Rausing Trust, she has been the Director of the SFT since 2007. Nuircan has authored and co-authored several reports and articles on minority rights in Turkey and international standards. (nurcan@global-dialogue.eu)

Jo Andrews, Director of Ariadne Network

Jo Andrews is the founding Director of Ariadne - The European Human Rights Funders Network, which she started in 2009 with the help of a number of European grant-makers. the aim of the Network is to increase the effectiveness of human rights funding through improved communication and collaboration, and to see a rise in the number of European donors willing to invest in the human rights. Before setting up Ariadne, Jo was Director of the Sigrid Rausing Trust for four years and also worked at the Institute for Philanthropy in London. Her particular interests lie in the areas of women's rights, minority rights, and civil and political rights. In a previous life, she was a Senior Correspondent for Independent Television News and reported extensively from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, the US, China, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, Brussels, and Westminster where she covered political events over a twenty year period.  

Lisa Hashemi, Ariadne Coordinator  

Lisa manages the day-to-day running of Ariadne and supports the Ariadne membership. Before joining Ariadne, she worked for an Istanbul-based NGO pursuing social cohesion in Turkey and a British think tank focusing on conflict resolution in the Middle East. Lisa holds a Bsc and Msc from the University of Cologne in Media Management, Cultural Studies and Social & Business Psychology, as well as an M.Sc. in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Lisa's native language is German; she also speaks good French, Spanish, and Turkish.

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Project Advisory Boards

SFT Advisory Board

Tahir Elçi is a Kurdish freelance lawyer from Diyarbakir, who has taken various cases before the European Court of Human Rights, is a founder member of the Human Rights Foundation and formerly the vice president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association. 

Turgut Tarhanlı is Dean of the Law Faculty and the Director of the Human Rights Law Research Center at the Istanbul Bilgi University and a founder member of Amnesty International in Turkey. 

Yakın Ertürk is Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Since 2003 she has been serving as the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and she is the former Director of the UN Institute for Research and Training for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) and the Director of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW).  

Sema Kılıcer is political advisor to the European Council Delegation in Ankara.

Fatmagul Berktay is a professor from the International Relations Department at the Istanbul University.

Ferhat Kentel is an assistant professor from Sociology Department of the Istanbul Bilgi University.

 Ariadne Advisory Board

Ariadne is overseen by its own Advisory Board, made up of Elizabeth Palmer (Global Dialogue Trustee), Adrian Arena (Oak Foundation) and Russell Pickard (OSI)