Category: Executive Board

[/The current Members of the Equinet Executive Board for the 2015-2017 period are:

	Evelyn COLLINS (Chair) Chief Executive Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland ecollins@equalityni.org
	Sarah BENICHOU Head of Unit Access to Rights and Discrimination Defender of Rights, France sarah.benichou@defenseurdesdroits.fr
	Anna BŁASZCZAK Deputy Director of the Constitutional and International Law Department, Commissioner for Human Rights, Poland a.blaszczak@brpo.gov.pl
	Patrick CHARLIER (Treasurer) Co-Director Unia (Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities), Belgium Patrick.Charlier@unia.be
	Sandra KONSTATZKY Deputy Director Ombud for Equal Treatment, Austria sandra.konstatzky@bka.gv.at
	Kalliopi LYKOVARDI Deputy Ombudsman for Equal Treatment Greek Ombudsman, Greece lykovardi@synigoros.gr
	Kirsi PIMIÄ Non-Discrimination Ombudsman Non-Discrimination Ombudsman, Finland – since January 2017 kirsi.pimia@oikeus.fi
	Petr POLAK Head of the Division of Equal Treatment Public Defender of Rights, Czech Republic petr.polak@ochrance.cz
	Tena ŠIMONOVIĆ EINWALTER Deputy Ombudswoman Office of the Ombudswoman, Croatia – since January 2017 tena.simonovic.einwalter@ombudsman.hr

Former Board Members for the 2015-2016 period:

• Kosana BEKER, Assistant to the Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Commissioner for Protection of Equality, Serbia (resigned in December, 2016)
• Elisabeth LIER HAUGSETH, Head of Law Enforcement Department, The Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud, Norway (resigned in October, 2016)

All of the Executive Board members and the Treasurer execute their tasks pro bono.

The Executive Board operates on the basis of the workplan and budget agreed by the Equinet members and discusses and takes decisions on the management and operational structure for the period of their mandate.

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