Staff
People working for ILGA-Europe are coming from various countries and backgrounds and proud to be part of a professional and dedicated team committed to the principles of equality and justice.
Patricia Prendiville
Executive Director Patricia is Executive Director of ILGA-Europe since October, 2004. Previously, Patricia worked in Meitheal, a Community Development Support and Training organisation in Ireland, which she co-founded in 1994. She has worked in the area of equality and social change in England and Ireland for over 20 years – as facilitator, change agent, lecturer, trainer and organiser, and has degrees in Psychology, Women’s Studies and Organisational Development. Patricia has authored a number of resource books and was part of various governmental advisory gr...
Maxim Anmeghichean
Programmes Director After graduating from Moldovan State University with dual-degrees in journalism and communication sciences, Max has devoted all of his professional life to the LGBT movement. He led the team that created the LGBT movement in Moldova; developing it into a respected and powerful national and regional organization. Nationally, he has served on the NGO Council, the National AIDS Network, and on the board of the National Youth Council. As an ILGA-Europe board member for the past three years, he chaired the committee to develop the organiza...
Christine Loudes
Policy Director Christine is working in several areas, such as monitoring the development of the EU human rights agenda and institutions, the human rights clauses in EU's association, trade and development agreements with third countries and the EU enlargement. Other tasks include initiating proposals for appropriate responses by ILGA-Europe, producing reports, policy and research papers on discrimination and human rights (including for the EU presidencies) and projects such as need assessment of transgender people or report on free movement of LGBT fami...
Juris Lavrikovs
Communications Manager Juris is originally from Latvia, but joined the office from London where he worked for the leading British lesbian, gay and bisexual rights organisation Stonewall. Initially Juris worked for Stonewall’s Citizenship 21 project which addressed the issues of multiple-discrimination and provided capacity building support for community organisations. Juris also was involved in establishing Stonewall’s information centre and creating and maintaining its website. Juris was also involved in Stonewall’s policy and research work. In 1990 Juris...
Olimpia Ciripoiu-Vonica
Finance & Administrative Manager Originally from Romania, Olimpia has joined ILGA-Europe’s team in December 2006. Prior to joining ILGA-Europe, she worked as Researcher for the Advisory department of Pricewaterhouse Coopers Romania and as Admin/Finance Assistant for Peace Corps Romania. She graduated from the Masters programme in Economics, Central European University (Hungary) in 2005 and holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Academy of Economic Studies, Romania. Her areas of expertise are economics and gender inequality in the labour markets.
Evelyne Paradis
Senior Policy & Programmes Officer As senior policy and programmes officer, Evelyne works on non-discrimination and equal opportunities (implementation of the Employment Equality Directive, the European Year on Equal Opportunities) and on the EU social policy agenda (social inclusion process, health, Lisbon strategy). Her tasks include initiating proposals for appropriate responses by ILGA-Europe, producing reports and policy on the issues listed above. Another of Evelyne's areas of responsibilities is the co-ordination of ILGA-Europe's EU Network - a...
Silvan Agius
Policy & Programmes Officer As Policy and Programmes Officer, Silvan is responsible for the areas of employment, LGBT families, transgender rights and multiple discrimination. He is responsible for the monitoring of the Employment Framework Directive, the Gender ‘Recast’ Directive vis-à-vis transgender people’s rights, and the Freedom of Movement Directive with regard to the rights of same-sex partners. For this purpose, he works closely with European institutions, international trade union confederations, corporate social responsibility organisations/managers,...
Beth Fernandez
Programmes and Policy Officer Beth’s key responsibilities are the Precis project (Prevention and empowerment in the CIS), which aims to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs among LGBT communities via capacity building of LGBT organisations in the NIS. Her particular role is to support the advocacy efforts of partners for inclusive policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as for the enhancement of human rights of LGBT people on the national and international level in respect of the project countries. She also monitors the EU European Neighb...
Lilit Poghosyan
Programmes & Policy Officer Lilit is responsible for the Advocacy Project which aims to strengthen the advocacy capacities and competences of project partners. She also monitors the developments in the field of human rights of LGBT people in Western Balkans and Turkey and channels the information on human rights violations on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity to relevant EU institutions in order to ensure that LGBT people enjoy equal rights and protection in candidate and potential candidate countries for the accession to the EU. Lilit hol...
