Board

Jan Knockaert is the Director of FAIRWORK Belgium. The organisation advocates for the rights of migrant workers with a precarious residence status, and supports them through providing information about their rights, and assisting them in enforcing these rights.

Didier Vanderslycke coordinates ORBIT vzw. He is a trained social worker and priest of the diocese of Antwerp. Didier Vanderslycke is also Chair of PICUM’s member Organisation for Undocumented Workers (OR.C.A.). ORBIT is a Belgian organisation working to promote diversity and fair migration through publications, actions and campaigns, education and debates.

Edel McGinley is the Director of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI). MRCI works to promote justice, empowerment and equality for migrants and their families in Ireland through a community-work approach aiming to secure policy change. 

Adam Weiss is Head of Oceans at the environmental NGO ClientEarth, working with teams fighting overfishing, useless plastic, and chemical pollution. He is an experienced litigator, having worked with NGOs (including the AIRE Centre and the European Roma Rights Centre) to uphold migrants’ rights and the rights of ethnic minorities under the European Convention on Human Rights and EU law. He is also on the board of FLEX (Focus on Labour Exploitation).

András Kováts is the Director of Menedék, the Hungarian Association for Migrants. Menedék promotes the social integration of migrants and refugees in Hungary, organises trainings for professionals who deal with migrants in the course of their work, and leads various educational and cultural projects to build a bridge between migrants and the general public in order to foster tolerance.

Magda Faltová is the Director of the Association for Integration and Migration (SIMI) in Czechia. SIMI provides free legal, social and psychological counselling to migrants and engages with the general public to promote tolerance and fight xenophobia and racism.

Meri Korniloff coordinates a programme which promotes the health of irregular migrants in Finland. It is a joint programme of Physicians for Social Responsibility Finland and Global Clinic. Previously she has coordinated a legal counseling service for irregular migrants in Finland.

Moussa Sangaré is the President and coordinator of the Ivorian community in Greece .
Board member  at the Greek Forum of Refugees, a network supporting refugees, migrants, stateless persons and asylum seekers based in  Greece. He is a passionate advocate for human rights and justice, aiming to raise refugees’ and migrants’ voices at the local, national and international levels.

Teresa De Gasperis is the anti-trafficking Programme Manager at the Spanish NGO
Accem. She is also a focal point for different platforms and networks at national, EU and
international levels, as well as manager of EU-funded projects.

Nazek Ramadan is the Executive Director of Migrant Voice. From a migrant background herself, she has over 30 years of experience working with migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities in the UK focusing on promoting their voice and representation in the media and on policy platforms.

Franck Düvell is a Senior Researcher at Universität Osnabrück, Germany, and has extensive knowledge and research background on irregular migration within the European context.

George Joseph is the Managing Director of Caritas Sweden. Caritas Sweden defends the human rights of migrants and refugees and acts for a humane refugee policy. It also provides practical support and assistance to irregular migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and victims of trafficking in human beings.