Board & Council
ECMI Board
Chairman Dr Knud Larsen - Honorary Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Former Permanent Secretary at the Danish Ministry for Research, Chairman of the Danish Refugee Council, Chairman of the Environmental Assessment Institute
Vice-Chairman Professor Rainer Hofmann - Co-Director of Wilhelm Merton Centre, Professor at Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
Mr. Niels Korsby - Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Head of Division
Ms. Karin Riis Jørgensen - Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chairwoman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Professor Bertel Heurlin - Jean Monnet Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio - Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Ms. Caroline Schwarz - Beauftragte für Minderheiten und Kultur des Ministerpräsidenten des Landes Schleswig-Holstein (Minority Representative of the German Land of Schleswig-Holstein)
Mr. Ingbert Liebing - Member of the German Bundestag
Dr. Detlev Rein - Substitute for Mr. Liebing
Mr. Gert Haack - Substitute for Ms. Schwarz
Ms. Michèle Akip - Substitute for Ms. de Boer-Buquicchio
ECMI Advisory Council
Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson (Sweden),
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Lund, Sweden
Ambassador Peter Dyvig (Denmark)
Ms. Alyson J.K. Bailes (United Kingdom),
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Dr. Tarja Cronberg (Finland),
Minister of Labour, Helsinki, Finland
Professor Asbjørn Eide (Norway),
Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway
Professor Hurst Hannum (USA),
Department of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA
Professor Will Kymlicka (Canada),
National Scholar in the Philosophy Department at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada), and a Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Budapest
Professor André Liebich (Switzerland),
Professor at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (IUHEI), Geneva
Professor John McGarry (Canada)
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy, Dept. of Political Studies
Queen's University, Canada
Professor Brendan O'Leary (Ireland),
Director of Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict; Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mr. Alan Phillips (United Kingdom),
UK Independent expert on Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities,
Vice President of Advisory Committee
Professor Allan Rosas (Finland),
European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
Professor Wojcieh Sadurski (Poland),
Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Dept. of Law, Italy
Professor Patrick Thornberry (United Kingdom),
Professor of International Law at Keele University
Professor Stefan Troebst (Germany),
Professor of East European Cultural Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany, and Deputy Director of the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe
