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International Team

Democracy Without Borders' international work is carried out, coordinated and guided by a team of chapter representatives, associates and advisors which is led by the Executive Director. Team members usually contribute pro bono on a voluntary basis. Each chapter has its own national team.

Executive Director

Andreas Bummel

Germany/South Africa

Executive Director

Chapter representatives

John-Paul Banchani

Director, DWB-Ghana

Josephine Borghi

Vice-Chair, DWB UK

Melanie Hemila

Switzerland

Vice-Chair, DWB-Switzerland

Anna Tora Huss

Sweden

DWB-Sweden

Stefan Kalberer

Switzerland

Chair, DWB-Switzerland

Elsie Mulindi

Kenya

Board member, DWB-Kenya

Petter Ölmunger

Chair, DWB-Sweden

Charalampos Stamelos

Greece

Chair, DWB-Greece

Jessica Seiler

Germany

Associate & Vice-Chair, DWB-Germany

Chryssi Tsirogianni

Greece

DWB-Greece

John Vlasto

Chair, DWB UK, and associate

Caleb Wanga

Secretary/Coordinator, DWB-Kenya

Associates

Josephine Alabi

Associate in Abuja

Lidia Bilali

Italy/Albania

Program associate

Dan Aymar-Blair

Associate in New York

Ana Crepaldi

Associate in São Paulo

Rita Kakati Shah

India/USA

Associate

François Leray

Associate in Paris

Frank Lekaba

Associate in Pretoria

Pilar Llorente

Spain/Belgium

Associate in Brussels

Nyaradzo Mashayamombe

Associate in Harare

Tomás Molina

Spain/Argentina

Associate in Madrid

Jordan Simmons

Canada

Associate

Shishir Srivastava

India

Associate and Secretary, DWB-India

Rasmus Tenbergen

Program Co-Director

Advisors

Daniele Archibugi

Research Director, Italian National Research Council in Rome

Inna Berezkina

Russia/Lithuania

Editor, contributor, programme coordinator, School of Civic Education

Darren Bergman

Member of Parliament

Didier Coeurnelle

Co-chair, Heales, Vice-President, Association française transhumaniste

Fan, Yun

Member of Parliament

Dena Freeman

Israel/UK

Deputy Director, One World

Maja Groff

International lawyer and Convenor, Climate Governance Commission

Niklaus Samuel Gugger

Member of Parliament

Evin Incir

Sweden

Member of the European Parliament

Daniel Jositsch

Senator and Professor of Law; Former Chair, DWB-Switzerland

Jo Leinen

Germany

Former Member of the European Parliament

Tienchi Liao-Martin

Advisor; Former President, Independent Chinese PEN Centre

Henry Muguzi

Uganda

Coordinator, African Elections Observer Network

Tim Murithi

Head of Programme, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town

Amy Oloo

Executive Director, World Federalist Movement

Lenin Raghuvanshi

India

Secretary General, Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights

Gulnara Shahinian

Armenia

Founder, Democracy Today & former UN Special Rapporteur

Ivone Soares

Mozambique

Member of Parliament

Andrew Strauss

United States

Dean and Professor of Law, University of Dayton School of Law

Folke Tersman

Sweden

Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University

Takehiko Uemura

Professor, School of International Liberal Arts, Yokohama City University

Heinrich Volmink

South Africa

Public health specialist, former Member of Parliament