Our Members The ENS Steering Committee The ENS Steering Committee is responsible for the development of the Network and the implementation of its strategic plans. Its composition reflects regional diversity and relevant thematic and sectorial expertise necessary to meet the Network’s objectives. Current members are: Chris Nash is International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid and joint author of the 2011 UNHCR/Asylum Aid report Mapping Statelessness in the United Kingdom. He has worked in the refugee and migration field for 14 years, both as a lawyer and as a manager at several NGOs (including ECRE and Amnesty International), and currently leads Asylum Aid’s work on statelessness covering research, policy development, advocacy and training/awareness-raising. He is acting as the ENS Coordinator while Asylum Aid initially hosts the Network. www.asylumaid.org.uk Gábor Gyulai has been working in the field of asylum since 2000. He is Coordinator of the Hungarian Helsinki’s refugee programme. Besides numerous asylum-related activities, Gábor has been active in putting statelessness on the international agenda since 2006, including involvement in various research and advocacy initiatives. He has trained hundreds of lawyers, judges, state officers and UNHCR staff on statelessness in various European and Latin-American countries. Gábor chairs the ENS Steering Committee. www.helsinki.hu Ivanka Kostic is founder and Executive Director of Praxis Serbia and has been working in the field of human rights protection since 1993. Praxis has spearheaded a multi-tiered effort aimed at reducing statelessness, involving advocacy for changes to law and practice, provision of free legal aid, research, publishing human rights reports on the subject, and providing training and awareness-raising. www.praxis.org.rs Dr. Laura van Waas is Senior Researcher and Manager of the Statelessness Programme, of Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. She is the author of Nationality Matters (2008), an in depth analysis of the international normative framework relating to statelessness, alongside numerous other academic publications on nationality and statelessness. She has worked for UNHCR on several statelessness projects: conducting research, drafting public information materials, and developing training programmes. She has also undertaken research and provided training for a number of other international organisations. www.tilburguniversity.edu Amal DeChickera is Head of Statelessness Projects at the Equal Rights Trust, and is responsible for research, advocacy, training, awareness raising, network building and policy development on statelessness. Amal authored ERT’s 2010 publication “Unravelling Anomaly”, and drafted ERT’s “Guidelines to Protect Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention”, and the “Commentary to the Guidelines. Amal sits on the advisory board of the International Detention Coalition and is also a member of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network and the UK Detention Forum. www.equalrightstrust.org Maxim Ferschtman is senior legal adviser on equality and citizenship with the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). His role includes responsibility for litigation against racial and ethnic discrimination as well as statelessness in Europe. Previously he has worked as an attorney in Amsterdam, concentrating on criminal, immigration, international law & human rights. Maxim replaced Sebastian Kohn (also OSJI) - a founding Steering Committee of the Network until March 2013 www.opensocietyfoundations.org Associate member organisations Aditus Foundation, Malta; AIRE Centre, UK; Archway Foundation, Romania; Association for Integration and Migration, Czech Republic; Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration, Italy; Asylkoordination, Austria; Bail for Immigration Detainees, UK; Belgian Refugee Council; British Red Cross; Caritas Vienna; Civil Rights Programme, Kosovo; Danish Refugee Council; Detention Action, UK; EUDO Citizenship; Faith Hope Love, Russia; Forum Réfugiés, France; Greek Council for Refugees; Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly Turkey; Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland; HIAS, Ukraine; Human Rights League, Slovakia; Immigrant Council of Ireland; Information Legal Centre, Croatia; Innovations and Reforms Centre, Georgia; Interights, UK; Italian Council for Refugees; JRS Romania; Kerk in Actie, Netherlands; Latvian Centre on Human Rights; Law Centre of Advocates, Moldova; Legal Centre, Montenegro; Legal Clinic for Refugees and Immigrants, Bulgaria; Legal Information Centre on Human Rights, Estonia; Lithuanian Red Cross Society; Macedonia Young Lawyers Association; Migrant Rights Network, UK; NGO Vitality, Moldova; Peace Institute, Slovenia; People for Change Foundation, Malta; Portuguese Refugee Council; Refugee Action, UK; Refugees International; Vaša Prava, Bosnia and Herzegovina Individual associate members Marine Antonyan, Armenia; Katia Bianchini, UK; Adrian Berry, UK; Zsolt Bóbis, Hungary; Michelle Mila van Burik, Netherlands; Ivana Canjuga Bedić, Croatia; Arsenio Cores, Spain; Eva Ersbøll, Denmark; Paolo Farci, Italy; Eric Fripp, UK; Mónika Ganczer, Hungary; Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, UK; Stans Goudsmit, Netherlands; Stefanie Grant, UK; Professor René de Groot, Netherlands; Professor James Hathaway, US; Karel Hendriks, Netherlands; Erika Kalantzi, Greece; Maureen Lynch, US; Reinhard Marx, Germany; Keelin McCarthy, UK; Tamás Molnár, Hungary; Mike Sanderson, UK; Nando Sigona, UK; Kelly Staples, UK; Jason Tucker, UK; Kostas Tsitselikis, Greece