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Members of the Board

The Advisory Board provides advice to both the Council of Foundation and the management of the GICHD. It consists of a group of eminent persons being involved in mine action and humanitarian disarmament in various roles and organisations. The Advisory Board is chaired by the Director of the GICHD.

Havard Bach, Head of Operations & Human Security, APOPO

Arianna Calza Bini, Director, Gender and Mine Action Programme Association (GMAP)

Kerry Brinkert, Director, Implementation Support Unit of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

Carl Case, Director, Humanitarian Mine Action, Organization of American States (OAS)

Mark Downes, Head of International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT), and Assistant Director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Hansjoerg Eberle, Director General, Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD)

Steinar Essén, Deputy Director, Mine Action, Norwegian People's Aid (NPA)

Etsay Gebre Selassie, Director General, Ethiopian Mine Action Office (EMAO)

Judy Grayson, Senior Advisor, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

David Hewitson, Director, PRESCIENCE AG

Timothy Horner, Head UNDP-Mine Action, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Keith Krause, Director Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Ben Lark, Head of ERW/Mine Action Sector, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Gustavo Laurie, Acting Senior Liaison Officer in Geneva, United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) (TBC)

Dorijan Maršič, Director, International Trust Fund (ITF), Slovenia

Marie Mills, Mine Action Advisor, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)

Rashid Mohammed Sediq, Chief of Operations, Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA)

Deemah Naser, Head of Planning Department, National Committee of Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR), Jordan

Chris Pearce, Director Ordnance Management, G4S Risk Management Ltd.

Heng Rattana, Director General, Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodia

Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen, Head of Danish Demining Group (DDG), Danish Refugee Council

Paul Vermeulen, Head of federal advocacy and institutional relations, Handicap International Federation

Rob White, Director of Operations, Mines Advisory Group (MAG)