Executive Board
ILGA-Europe's Executive Board is the organisation's main governing body. Board members are elected every year by the Annual Conference and represent member organisations.
In October-November 2009, during the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference in Malta, following Executive Board members were elected:
Martin K.I. Christensen
Co-Chair
LBL (Denmark)
My involvement as a gay activist began at the Lesbian and Gay Radio in Copenhagen, Radio Rosa. I later became Chairman of the Association running the radio and was then elected member of the National Board of LBL, the Danish National Association of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals.
For the last 5 years I have been a member of the Board of LBL International and thereby involved in ILGA-Europe and bilateral...
Linda Freimane
Co-Chair
Mozaīka (Latvia)
Linda is one of the founders and present chairperson of the LGBT and their friends’ organisation „ Mozaika” in Latvia. She has been the main responsible organiser of the Friendship days and Riga pride 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Linda was born in Stockholm, i...
Louise Ashworth
Co-Secretary
(UNISON) UK
Louise has a Law degree and Masters degree in Women’s Studies. She has worked in the voluntary sector, education and local government sectors. She has worked as a housing law practitioner for the past four years and is now a Training Officer. This includes providing training on anti-discrimination and housing.Louise has been a member of UNISON’s LGBT Committee for nine years and has served as co-chair. Throughout this time she has been actively involved in UNISON’s Inter...
Paata Sabelashvili
Co-Secretary
Inclusive Foundation (Georgia)
Paata Sabelashvili is the founder and the president of Inclusive Foundation, the only LGBT organisation in his home country Georgia. Paata is active in advocacy and lobby initiatives with national and European institutions. He is co-editor of the Me magazine. He is also involved in the networking of LGBT activists from the former Soviet countries. Before involvement in LGBT movement Paata worked to promote the cause for disabled and refugees.
Pierre Serne
Treasurer
Commission LGBT des Verts (France)
Pierre Serne is presently working as head of personnel staff for the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of integration and non-EU foreigners. In 2000 he was appointed to be the political adviser of the French Minister for the Environment. He has been for a few years now the chairman of the LGBT national committee in the Green Party. He also is a member of the city council of Vincennes (Paris suburb).He has been elected in charge of European issues in I...
Ruth Baldacchino
Malta Gay Rights Movement (Malta)
I have been involved as an LGBTIQ activist since I began my work with the Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM) where I was a member of the Executive Committee.
I was Secretary General (Executive Board) of IGLYO – the International LGBTQ Youth Organisation - between 2003 and 2005.
Since 2006, I have been a member of the Executive Board of ILGA-Europe as well as one of the two European Representatives on the ILGA Executive Board.
After...
Deborah Lambillotte
Holebifederatie (Belgium)
Deborah Lambillotte intersexual gender activist. After years of involvement in the Italian Arcigay, Arcilesbica and ArciTrans, she returned to Ghent ( Belgium) in 2002. She is now member of the executive board of the Holebifederatie – the Flemish LGB umbrella organisation – where she is responsible for transnational projects. She also co-ordinates the local section of Vieux Rose, a 50+ lesbian group, as well as being an active mem...
Christine Le Doaré
Centre LGBT de Paris (France)
Former president of the French activist Lesbian and Gay organisation SOS Homophobie. Now president of the Paris LGBT Federation Center. Treasurer of the team hosting the conference in Paris in October 2005.
In a more general way, interested in European issues, specially LGBT and feminist issues and strengthening the links between all progressive bodies.
Björn van Roozendaal
COC Netherlands
Björn van Roozendaal works as international advocacy officer with COC Netherlands, in this role he is responsible for working with international organisations such as the UN and the European Union. Björn has been working together with organisations in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey. He was board member in IGLYO between 2003-2007, and currently still is an advisor to the IGLYO Board.
Nataša Sukič
ŠKUC-LL (Slovenia)
I am involved with GLBTQ activism since the mid eighties, when I first stared to work in feminist association LILITH and after that I co-founded lesbian group ŠKUC-LL in 1987. Lesbian group ŠKUC-LL was the first lesbian association in former Yugoslavia as well in Eastern Europe. In the same year SKUC-LL also became a member of ILGA – I participated at the first Eastern European ILGA conference in Budapest.
Since 19...
Tomasz Szypuła
Reserve
Campaign Against Homophobia (Poland)
Tomasz has been involved in LGBT activism since 2001, first in the Krakow branch of Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH). In 2004 he founded and coordinated Krakow 1st Gay Pride Festival (‘Culture for Tolerance’ Days). He graduated from Journalism and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University in September 2004 and moved to Warsaw where he became the Secretary General of KPH. In his voluntary work for KPH he has been also working on inte...
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to ILGA-Europe Board (August 2004)
We have received for some time now requests to provide an overview of the Executive Board: how it works, what is its role, what does it imply in terms of commitment to be a member of the Board, etc.
This brief guide is intended to provide a broad and easily accessible overview of the Executive Board, of what it does and how it does it. We hope it will help to make Board work and procedures clearer and thus more accessible to members. Further information about the scope of Board work can be found by reading Board Activity Reports from previous years.
