Presenters and Council Members

The organizers of this conference have been supported and assisted in arranging this conference by a Conference Council. The Council consists of an extremely distinguished group of international academics and lawyers from all over the world who have served on a voluntary basis. Some members of the Council have also very generously agreed to participate as speakers or moderators at our sessions. We wish to acknowledge and thank all members of the Council for their interest in and encouragement offered to this important conference, and for their invaluable assistance throughout.  

Ulrike Auga, Professor of Theology and Gender Studies, Humboldt University, Germany

Adam Bodnar, Associate Professor, Warsaw University, Human Rights Chair, head of the Legal Division at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland

Constantin Cojocariu, lawyer, Europe Programme from the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), United Kingdom

Ferhart Dinosha, Minister for Human and Minority Rights, Montenegro

Tamás Dombos, researcher at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest

Ljulja Đonaj, High Police Commssioner, Department of Planning in the Police Directorate of Montenegro, Montenegro

Douglas Elliott, Past President of ILGLaw, Partner in Roy Elliott O’Connor LLP, Toronto, Canada, President of the Conference Council

Paula Ettelbrick, Professor of Law, United States

Petra Frantzioch, Ministry of Justice, Germany

Tea Gorjanc-Prelević, Action for Human Rights, Montenegro

Helmut Graupner, Co-ordinator, European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), Director, ILGLaw Europe, Austria

Håkan Hydén, Professor in Sociology of Law (Chair) and Associate Professor in Civil Law, Holder of the Samuel Pufendorf Professorship, Lund University, Sweden

Petra Jäppinen, HBT officer for the Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden

Sanja Juras, European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), NGO Law Reform Team, Kontra, Croatia

Marko Karadžić, State Secretary, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, Serbia

Jovan Kojičić, Assistant Professor in European Law (FAES), President of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Alumni Montenegro, guest researcher at the University of Leipzig (Germany) and post-doc in the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University, Sweden, Conference Chair

Gordana Lukač Koritnik, Gender Equality Ombudswoman, Croatia

Markus Kotzur, Professor of European Law, Public International Law and Public Law (Chair), Director of the Institute of Public International Law, European Law and Comparative Public Law, University of Leipzig, Germany

Slobodanka Krivokapić, Montenegro

Marijana Laković, Deputy of Ombudsman of Montenegro

Akim Ade Larcher, Director of Policy & Research, Egale Canada, Canada

Scott Long, Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program, Human Rights Watch, United States

Ulrike Lunacek, Member of European Parliament for the Green Group, Co-Spokesperson for the European Green Party, Austria

Leopold Maurer, Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Montenegro

Goran Miletić, Human Rights Lawyer, Civil Rights Defenders (former Swedish Helsinki Committee), Serbia“

Boris Milićević, Gay Straight Alliance, Serbia

Robert Milkovich, Canada

Lilit Poghosyan, Programmes and Policy Officer, ILGA Europe

Leonardo Raznovich, Director of the Division for Law and Dispute Resolution, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom

Madeleine Rees, Head of Women’s Rights and Gender Unit, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Schieder, Honorary President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Austria

Irina Schmitt, Post-doc, Lund University, Sweden

Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, United States

Daniel Townsend, Co-Chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Taskforce of the Youth Coalition for Sexual Reproductive Rights, Jamaica

Vladimir Veljković, Belgrade Pride, Serbia

Ivana Vujović, Juventas, Montenegro

Per Wickenberg, Professor and Director, Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden

Saskia Eleonora Wieringa, Director of the International Information Center and Archives of the Women’s Movement in Amsterdam, Academic Director of the European Sexuality Research Center, and Professor of Gender and Women’s Same-Sex Relations Cross-Culturally at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hans Ytterberg, Director-General, Ministry for Integration and Gender Equality, Sweden. Chairperson, the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (DH-LGBT). European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL). Past Ombudsman Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Sweden (1999–2009).

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