Executive Board
ILGA-Europe's Executive Board is the organisation's main governing body. Board member are elected every year by the annual conference and represent member organisations.
In November 2008, during the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference in Vienna, following Executive Board members were elected:
Louise Ashworth
(UNISON) UK Louise has a Law degree and Masters degree in Women’s Studies. She has worked in the voluntary sector, education and local government sectors. She has worked as a housing law practitioner for the past four years and is now a Training Officer. This includes providing training on anti-discrimination and housing.Louise has been a member of UNISON’s LGBT Committee for nine years and has served as co-chair. Throughout this time she has been actively involved in UNISON’s International work. She is also engaged in the wider t...
Ruth Baldacchino
I have been involved as an LGBTIQ activist since I began my work with the Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM) where I was a member of the Executive Committee. I was Secretary General (Executive Board) of IGLYO – the International LGBTQ Youth Organisation - between 2003 and 2005. Since 2006, I have been a member of the Executive Board of ILGA-Europe as well as one of the two European Representatives on the ILGA Executive Board. After reading Sociology at the University of Malta I moved to Ireland, and received a Master of Arts i...
Martin K.I. Christensen
LBL (Denmark) My involvement as a gay activist began at the Lesbian and Gay Radio in Copenhagen, Radio Rosa. I later became Chairman of the Association running the radio and was then elected member of the National Board of LBL, the Danish National Association of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals. For the last 5 years I have been a member of the Board of LBL International and thereby involved in ILGA-Europe and bilateral cooperation with other organisations in both Eastern and Western Europe. In the Social Liberal Party I am the fou...
Christine Le Doaré
Centre LGBT de Paris (France) Former president of the French activist Lesbian and Gay organisation SOS Homophobie. Now president of the Paris LGBT Federation Center. Treasurer of the team hosting the conference in Paris in October 2005. In a more general way, interested in European issues, specially LGBT and feminist issues and strengthening the links between all progressive bodies.
Linda Freimane
Mozaīka (Latvia) Linda is one of the founders and present chairperson of the LGBT and their friends’ organisation „ Mozaika ” in Latvia. She has been the main responsible organiser of the Friendship days and Riga pride 2006 and 2007. Linda was born in Stockholm, in a family of Latvian refugees in Sweden, where she early on became active in various youth organisations. She served as board member and editor for the European Latvian Youth Association. Linda has graduated the School of Journalism of the University of Stockholm...
Deborah Lambillotte
Holebifederatie (Belgium) Deborah Lambillotte intersexual gender activist. After years of involvement in the Italian Arcigay, Arcilesbica and ArciTrans, she returned to Ghent ( Belgium) in 2002. She is now member of the executive board of the Holebifederatie – the Flemish LGB umbrella organisation – where she is responsible for transnational projects. She also co-ordinates the local section of Vieux Rose, a 50+ lesbian group, as well as being an active member of the trans working party of ILGA-Europe. Her hobby is lobby...
Paata Sabelashvili
Inclusive Foundation (Georgia)
Pierre Serne
Commission LGBT des Verts (France) Pierre Serne is presently working as head of personnel staff for the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of integration and non-EU foreigners. In 2000 he was appointed to be the political adviser of the French Minister for the Environment. He has been for a few years now the chairman of the LGBT national committee in the Green Party. He also is a member of the city council of Vincennes (Paris suburb).He has been elected in charge of European issues in INTER-LGBT, the main French LGBT umbrella association.
Nataša Sukič
(Slovenia) I am involved with GLBTQ activism since the mid eighties, when I first stared to work in feminist association LILITH and after that I co-founded lesbian group ŠKUC-LL in 1987. Lesbian group ŠKUC-LL was the first lesbian association in former Yugoslavia as well in Eastern Europe. In the same year SKUC-LL also became a member of ILGA – I participated at the first Eastern European ILGA conference in Budapest. Since 1987 I am active in Slovenian GLBTQ movement. I was a coordinator of SKUC-LL from 1987 to 1997. I initia...
