Patricia Prendiville

Executive DirectorPatricia is Executive Director of ILGA-Europe since October, 2004. Previously, Patricia worked in Meitheal, a Community Development Support and Training organisation in Ireland, which she co-founded in 1994. She has worked in the area of equality and social change in England and Ireland for over 20 years – as facilitator, change agent, lecturer, trainer and organiser, and has degrees in Psychology, Women’s Studies and Organisational Development. Patricia has authored a number of resource books and was part of various governmental advisory gr...

Maxim Anmeghichean

Programmes DirectorAfter graduating from Moldovan State University with dual-degrees in journalism and communication sciences, Max has devoted all of his professional life to the LGBT movement. He led the team that created the LGBT movement in Moldova; developing it into a respected and powerful national and regional organization. Nationally, he has served on the NGO Council, the National AIDS Network, and on the board of the National Youth Council. As an ILGA-Europe board member for the past three years, he chaired the committee to develop the organization's...

Christine Loudes

Policy DirectorChristine is working in several areas, such as monitoring the development of the EU human rights agenda and institutions, the human rights clauses in EU's association, trade and development agreements with third countries and the EU enlargement. Other tasks include initiating proposals for appropriate responses by ILGA-Europe, producing reports, policy and research papers on discrimination and human rights (including for the EU presidencies) and projects such as need assessment of transgender people or report on free movement of LGBT famili...

Juris Lavrikovs

Communications ManagerJuris is originally from Latvia, but joined the office from London where he worked for the leading British lesbian, gay and bisexual rights organisation Stonewall. Initially Juris worked for Stonewall’s Citizenship 21 project which addressed the issues of multiple-discrimination and provided capacity building support for community organisations. Juris also was involved in establishing Stonewall’s information centre and creating and maintaining its website. Juris was also involved in Stonewall’s policy and research work. In 1990 Juris becam...

Olimpia Ciripoiu-Vonica

Finance & Administrative ManagerOriginally from Romania, Olimpia has joined ILGA-Europe’s team in December 2006. Prior to joining ILGA-Europe, she worked as Researcher for the Advisory department of PricewaterhouseCoopers Romania and as Admin/Finance Assistant for Peace Corps Romania. She graduated from the Masters programme in Economics, CentralEuropeanUniversity (Hungary) in 2005 and holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Academy of Economic Studies, Romania. Her areas of expertise are economics and gender inequality in the labour markets.

Evelyne Paradis

Senior Policy & Programmes Officer As senior policy and programmes officer, Evelyne works on non-discrimination and equalopportunities (implementation of the Employment Equality Directive, theEuropean Year on Equal Opportunities) and on the EU social policy agenda(social inclusion process, health, Lisbon strategy). Her tasks includeinitiating proposals for appropriate responses by ILGA-Europe, producingreports and policy on the issues listed above. Another of Evelyne's areas ofresponsibilities is the co-ordination of ILGA-Europe's EU Network - a keytool to exchange informati...

Silvan Agius

Policy & Programmes OfficerAs Policy Officer, Silvan is responsible for the areas of employment, pension and social benefits, the family, demographic changes and multiple discrimination. He also contributes towards ILGA-Europe’s policy regarding transgender persons. Background Silvan Agius has been a social activist since a young age with various social, environmental and human rights organisations including Moviment Graffitti, Greenpeace Mediterranean, Front Kontra l-Golf Kors, The Arts Collective and Malta Gay Rights Movement. In 2003, he also contested the local...

Aija Salo

Programmes & Policy OfficerAija Salo works at ILGA-Europe as a Programmes & Policy Officer in the programmes service area. Her responsibilities include coordinating ILGA-Europe’s participation in several projects in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, monitoring and bringing forward LGBT issues in the context of the accession of new countries to the European Union and influencing the Council of Europe and the OSCE in human rights issues. She also has tasks related to ILGA-Europe’s Human Rights Violations Documentation Fund. Background: Aija is a long-term activist in...