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Valeriu Nicolae, Chair
Valeriu Nicolae is Executive Director of the European Roma Grassroots Organisation (ERGO. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as Deputy Director of the European Roma Information Office in Brussels. He has been a fellow and senior consultant with the Roma Initiatives of the Open Society Institute since 2006. Nicolae has been involved in anti-racism campaigns in sports, working with UEFA, FIFA and Romanian sports organizations. He has an academic and professional background in programming, management and diplomacy and many years of experience as an activist for Roma rights.
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Asmet Elezovski
Asmet Elezovski is active in the Roma movement internationally and in Macedonia. He leads the National Roma Centrum in Kumanovo, is spokesman for the Roma National Congress, and is a member of the European Roma and Travellers Forum and the European Center for Antiziganism Research. Elezovski has worked since 1992 in human rights and policy development for Roma, beginning his participation in the Roma movement as a journalist and editor. In 2003-2006, he was a member of Macedonia's National Broadcasting Council.
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András Hajdu D.
András Hajdu is manager of the photography section of the leading Hungarian newsportal Origo.hu, where he has been a photo reporter for three years. He completed a photo-reporter training course with the Hungarian daily Népszabaság in 2004 and has since won awards in the portrait, genre and artistic photography categories of the National Press Photo Competition. Hajdu is completing a degree in English literature and has also taught photography at the university level.
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Leslie Hawke
Leslie Hawke is co-founder of Asociatia Ovidiu Rom, a Romanian non-governmental organization that runs the Gata, Dispus si Capabil ("Ready, Willing and Able") programs designed to improve living conditions and educational opportunities for severely impoverished families through educational and social support. Gata, Dispus si Capabil, which Hawke initiated with Maria Gheorghiu in 2001 while working as a Peace Corps volunteer, also offers parents—primarily mothers—tools to provide for their families. Hawke had 25 years of experience in educational publishing and non-profit fundraising and program development before coming to Romania.
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Catalin Mitulescu
Catalin Mitulescu is an award-winning director, producer and screenwriter. His short film "Traffic" won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2004, the Romanian Ministry of Culture Award of Excellence (2004) and the Special Jury Award and ARTE Award at the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, France (2005). Among his other honors is the 2005 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award for Best European Project for the feature film "The Way I Spent the End of the World." Mitulescu graduated in 2001 from the Film Directing Department of the National University of Drama and Film Art in Bucharest. |
