Executive Board
ILGA-Europe's Executive Board is the organisation's main governing body. Board member are elected every year by the annual conference and represent member organisations.
On 28 October 2007, during the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference in Vilnius, following Executive Board members were elected:
Ruth Baldacchino
Malta Gay Rights Movement (Malta) In 2003 I met IGLYO (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation) where I was elected to the Executive Board. Working for IGLYO meant organising various events for LGBTQ youth as well as maintaining and strengthening IGLYO and its network. On a national level, I was part of the Executive Committee of the Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM), having been active in holding a number of significant meetings amongst which with the President of the Republic. I was part o...
Martin K.I. Christensen
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 cooperation with other organisations in both Eastern and Western Europe. In the Social Liberal Party I am the founding co-chair...
Linda Freimane
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 and 2007. Linda was born in Stockholm, in a family of Latvian refugees in Sweden, where she early on became active in various youth organisations. She served as board member and editor for the European Latvian Youth Association. Linda has graduated the School of Journalism of the University of Stockholm (1989). Her first...
Lisette Kampus
Diversity (Estonia) & KPH (Poland) Lisette has been involved in LGBT activism since 2002; she has worked with Estonian LGBT community and organisations, mainly in the field of public and international relations and political lobbying. Together with other Estonian LGBT activists, she has also been one of the main organisers of all Estonian Pride festivals. Lisette has initiated many projects (both national and international) for capacity building of activists and strengthening the LGBT community, also projects that focus on LGBT youth issues....
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 member of the trans working party of ILGA-Europe. Her hobby is lobby.
Christine Le Doaré
Centre LGBT de Paris (France) Former president of the French activist Lesbian and Gay organisation SOS Homophobie. Now president of the ParisLGBTFederationCenter. 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.
Renato Sabbadini
Arcigay (Italy) A 41 year-old Italian linguist by training, working at the moment for a Member of the European Parliament, Renato Sabbadini has been active in the Italian lgbt movement since 1992, at first as President of Arcigay Bergamo (Northern Italy), then as Treasurer of Arcigay, then Spokeperson for the Worldpride Rome 2000 Italian Coordinating Committee, then as Arcigay's Foreign Affairs Person until May 2007. He is also a member of the Green party and was a city councillor in Bergamo from 1995 to 2004.
Pierre Serne
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 INTER-LGBT, the main French LGBT umbrella association.
Nataša Sukič
(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 1987 I am active in Slovenian GLBTQ movement. I was a coordinator of SKUC-LL from 1987 to 1997. I initiated a book e...
Tomasz Szypuła
KPH (Poland) Tomasz has been involved in gay activism since 2001, first in the Krakow branch of KPH. In 2004 he founded and coordinated the first Gay Pride Festival (‘Culture for Tolerance’ Days) in Krakow. After graduating from journalism at JagiellonianUniversity in September 2004 he moved to Warsaw and was elected to be the Secretary General of Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH). Since then he has been working also on international relations and cooperation with foreign LGBT organisations. In June 2006 he graduated from Human Rights School...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.
