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Governance and Structure

The International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) is an independent professional organization. It is governed by the General Assembly of its members which meets at least once a year. The General Assembly has all the powers to achieve the mission of the Association. Among other responsibilities, it appoints the members of the Board of Directors and adopts the PHAP budget and annual accounts. There are two categories of members of the General Assembly: 1) regular members who participate in the General Assembly and have a consultative voice; and 2) governing members who participate in the General Assembly and have voting rights. Governing members are selected among the membership of PHAP by the General Assembly on a proposal from the Board of Directors. Governing members meet regularly in working committees to discuss the policy objectives and standards of the Association, to be adopted by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors supervises the work of the Association. Its daily management responsibilities are delegated to the PHAP Executive Director, in charge of the Secretariat of the Association. All statutory positions within PHAP are fulfilled on a voluntary basis by members of the Association. All members participate into PHAP governance and activities on a strictly personal basis.

Bylaws

Official bylaws of PHAP aisbl, in French, as adopted by the General Assembly on 25 May 2010

Unofficial English translation of the PHAP bylaws

Board of Directors

President of the Board and Chair, Program Committee
Michael Møller


Michael Møller (Denmark) is former Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation and former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations where he served for 30 years. He was the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus from 2006 till 2008 and Director for Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary-General from 2001 till 2006, serving concurrently as Deputy Chief of Staff for the last 2 years of that period. Between 1997 and 2001 he was the Head of the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at UN headquarters in New York. He served in different capacities in Iran, Mexico, Haiti, New York and Geneva where he started his career in 1979 with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Vice-President and Chair, Training & Certification Committee
Bruno Demeyere
Bruno DemeyereBruno Demeyere, a Belgian lawyer, has served the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University and HPCR International for several years as Advisor in International Humanitarian Law, most recently assisting with the coordination of the “HPCR Manual on International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare”-project. In this capacity, he was a member of the Drafting Committee convened to draft the article-by-article Commentary associated with the Manual. Mr. Demeyere has lectured on international humanitarian law for a wide variety of professional audiences throughout the world, and has published widely in this and related fields of public international law. He is a Ph.D.-Candidate at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on the topic of "Armed Conflict-Related Trade in International Law". Mr. Demeyere holds a J.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (part of his law studies were pursued at City University of Hong Kong), a diploma in International Nuclear Law from the University of Montpellier (France), and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Harvard Law School (USA).

Treasurer and Chair, Finance & Administration Committee
Michael Fark
Michael FarkMichael Fark has a Masters degree in Violence, Conflict and Development (Political Economics) from the University of London and more than 10 years of international emergency relief field work experience. He has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Middle east and North and East Africa, including, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Chad. Starting in 2009 as the Executive Director and now as Board Chairman, Michael manages the Canadian based renewable energy development organization Light up The World, which promotes social and economic development in developing countries through the implementation of sustainable technologies. Having recently finished his engagement with MSF, Michael is currently the Director of the Southern Alberta Human Rights Commission.

 
Member of the Board and Chair, Membership Committee
Daniel Toole
Daniel TooleDaniel Toole has worked in the field of international development for over 30 years.  He has served in numerous humanitarian settings, including leading responses to large-scale natural disasters and conflict-related crises. He served four years as the global Director of Emergency Operations for UNICEF.  He was a member of the Advisory Group for the OCHA Report: ­To Stay and Deliver concerning humanitarian action in complex security environments.  He currently lives in Asia where he works as UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific and previously in a similar position covering South Asia.  Mr Toole was the co-founder and the initial Chief Operating Officer for Acumen Fund, a venture philanthropy investment fund that invests in for-profit ventures with a social return. He continues to serve as an Advisor to Acumen. Mr Toole serves on the Board of PHAP in his personal capacity.

 

Member of the Board
Claude Bruderlein
Claude BruderleinClaude Bruderlein is a lawyer by training, specialized in international humanitarian law. He is currently the Director of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Master’s Program in Global Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He teaches graduate courses on humanitarian law and policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He served with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 1990 to 1995 as a delegate in Iran, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Yemen and as a Special Advisor on Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 1996 to 2000, with a particular focus on the management of humanitarian access in Afghanistan, Sudan and North Korea. In 1996, Mr. Bruderlein received a Master's degree in Law from the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar.

 

Governing Members*

  • Mohammed Abbas, most recently, Deputy Head of Mission, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Jordan
  • Nicola Bennett, UN OCHA, Protection of Civilians and Displacement Section, Policy Development & Studies Branch, New York
  • Pascal Bongard, Programme Director for Africa and Policy Advisor, Geneva Call
  • Laura Boschi, Head of Secretariat, EUNIDA
  • Fernando de la Mora, Associate of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) 
  • Phillip Drew, Adjunct Professor, Queen's University Faculty of Law
  • Francesca Fraccaroli, Head of Office Province Orientale, UNOCHA DRC
  • Fritz Froehlich, Coordinator, UNRWA at 60
  • Elizabeth Holland, Program Associate, HPCR
  • Pamela Husain, Deputy Country Director, UN Women, Afghanistan
  • Natascha Hryckow, Head Political & Head Kenya and Somalia teams, EUCAP NESTOR, Horn of Africa
  • Cecilia Jimenez, Senior Training and Legal Officer, Norwegian Refugee Council - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, registered Independent Consultant, Switzerland
  • Olivia Kalis, DRC Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam Great Britain, Kinshasa
  • Dragan Markovic, Emergency Officer, UNICEF, Georgia
  • Lucio Melandri, Emergency Coordinator, UNICEF, Pakistan
  • Naz Modirzadeh, Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School, HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security
  • Tiarnach Mooney, Emergency Program Coordinator, Norwegian Refugee Council,  Afghanistan, active member of the Child Protection Working Group
  • Joanna Radziukiewicz, Policy and Advocacy Specialist, Humanitarian Policy Section, Office of Emergency Programmes, UNICEF
  • Fotini Rantsiou, Head of OCHA Sub-Office, Kilinochchi, Northern Sri Lanka
  • Cornelia Schneider, Head of Rule of Law Reform, EUPOL, Afghanistan
  • Patrick Schneider, Head of North Africa / Middle East Unit, German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation
  • Andrew Shaver, Regional Program Manager, AECOM International Development, South Sudan
  • Daniel Sherman, International Relations Director, B'Tselem, Israel
  • Mark Simmons, Country Director, FAR Sudan
  • Eva Smets, Director, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

*Participation of all Governing Members of PHAP is undertaken strictly in a personal capacity and does not form part of their official duties and responsibilities with any other organization, including their employer (whether they are employed by the United Nations, a goverment agency, an non-governmental organization, academic or policy program, or other entity). The views expressed by Governing Members in connection with their service to PHAP do not reflect the views of their employers or any other organization on any matter.