Chairperson Prof. Dr. Jørgen Kühl 
Director of the A.P Møller Skolen, Schleswig, Germany 

Vice-Chairperson Dr. iur. Beate Sibylle Pfeil
Legal Expert for Minority Issues in Europe

Mr. Johannes Callsen
Der Beauftragte des Ministerpräsidenten des Landes Schleswig- Holstein in Angelegenheiten nationaler Minderheiten und Volksgruppen, Grenzlandarbeit und Niederdeutsch/ The Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister`s Commissioner for Matters related to National Minorities and Ethnic Groups, Border Area Activities and Low German

Ms. Stine Jørgensen
Deputy director general in the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mr. Christophe Kamp 
Director, Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Mr. Marco Leidekker
Head of the Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Ms. Petra Nicolaisen
Member of the German Parliament (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community)

Professor Garbi Schmidt 
Professor at the Department of Culture and Identity at the Roskilde University

Ms. Linda Pieper
Substitute for Mr. Callsen

Mr. Thorsten Afflerbach
Substitute for Mr. Leidekker

Forrest Kilimnik 

Project Leader/Editor

Following graduation from the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course “Global Studies – A European Perspective” with his detailed thesis titled The War of Laws: South Ossetia’s Movement for Self-Determination Between the Russian and Georgian Fronts, Forrest joined the ECMI regional office in Tbilisi in April 2010. Following his internship, Forrest collaborated with Tom Trier, director of ECMI - Caucasus, and George Tarkhan-Mouravi, co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Tbilisi, in writing a monograph on Meskhetian Turks and their planned repatriation to Georgia. From August 2010 onwards, he has reconceptualized and redesigned the ‘ethnopolitical map’ project based at the ECMI headquarters in Flensburg as the new interactive research website titled the Minority Map and Timeline of Europe (MMTE). Forrest is also currently a research associate at the University of Leipzig and has undertaken extensive schooling in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Japan and the United States with a concentration on pan-European issues, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet Union.

Contact: kilimnik@ecmi.de