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FRA’s Director will visit the Council of Europe from 15 to 16 November in Strasbourg.
Alessia
Mora

Alessia Mora works at the Open Society Foundations Europe and Central Asia on rule of law and the protection of civic space in Europe. She joined the Open Society Foundations in March 2017 where she worked on fundamental rights, migration and antidiscrimination policies within Europe. Previously, Mora worked for the International Federation for Human Rights on EU counterterrorism policies and for the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement, where she was in charge of antiracism and genocide prevention projects across Europe.

Simona
Constantinescu

Simona Constantinescu is a legal expert actively working for a more favourable environment for civil society organizations for over 20 years. She started as a lawyer and since 2011 served as Head of Development and Advocacy for the Civil Society Development Foundation. She managed grant-making programmes involving more than 250 NGOs and has been engaged in major advocacy campaigns for improving legislation. She led or was part of some dozens of working groups on legislative changes affecting the third sector, either as legal writer, researcher, spokesperson or advocate for change at Romanian and international level. She resides in Bucharest, Romania.

Nino
Tsereteli

Dr. Nino Tsereteli, PhD (University of Oslo), LL.M. (Leiden University, Central European University), is Research Officer at Democracy Reporting International. Nino has 15 years of experience of working on international/regional courts and national judiciaries for government, academia, civil society and as an expert/consultant.

Jakub
Jaraczewski

Jakub Jaraczewski is Research Coordinator (rule of law) at Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO working on supporting democracy, human rights and the rule of law worldwide. Jakub’s role is to work with journalists and policymakers on improving the public debate on the rule of law.

Giada
Negri

Giada Negri is Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the European Civic Forum (ECF), where she leads the work on civic space. The ECF is a pan-European network of over 110 associations and NGOs across 29 European countries: big federations of associations deeply rooted in local constituencies, national platforms of NGOs uniting hundreds of thousands of NGOs, human rights advocacy, and campaigning organisations, but also smaller groups working at community level or engaging with the public on local issues.

Carlotta
Besozzi

Carlotta Besozzi is the Coordinator of Civil Society Europe, a wide network of European platforms of associations and NGOs representing different sectors within civil society such as human rights, environment, international cooperation, social inclusion, culture, education, health, civic rights, transparency, and active on promoting an enabling civic space in Europe and dialogue with the European Union Institutions.

Antoine
Buyse

Prof. Dr. Antoine Buyse is full Professor of Human Rights from a multidisciplinary perspective and Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University. He is also a member of the Council of Europe’s NGO Law Expert Council. His current research focuses on the human rights of civil society, ‘shrinking civic space’, and rule of law from below.