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Board of Directors

The governing body of the Institute is an independent Board of Directors, made up of 21 (twenty-one) members of which:

– 6 (six) experts are appointed by the Board of Directors of The Siracusa International Institute on the proposal of the AIDP (Conseil de Direction);

– 6 (six) experts are appointed by the Board of Directors of The Siracusa International Institute, on the proposal of the outgoing President of the Institute, after consultation with the Vice Presidents, at least two of them being non-Italian internationally well-known jurists and at least one member being an Italian and well-known jurist.

– In addition, the Board of Directors may appoint up to maximum 3 (three) more members, representatives of States, or entities that have demonstrated interest and support to the activities of the Institute, in particular through financial support to the management or the activities of the Institute.

– The other 6 (six) members are ex officio members, and more specifically the representatives of the following entities:

  • the Mayor of the City of Siracusa, founding entity;
  • the Mayor of the City of Noto, founding entity;
  • the Councilor for Education and Training of the Sicilian Region, founding entity
  • the President of AIDP;
  • the President of the Academic Board of the Institute;
  • the President of the Italian Group of AIDP.

The governing body of the Institute is an independent Board of Directors, made up of 21 (twenty-one) members of which:

– 6 (six) experts are appointed by the Board of Directors of The Siracusa International Institute on the proposal of the AIDP (Conseil de Direction);

– 6 (six) experts are appointed by the Board of Directors of The Siracusa International Institute, on the proposal of the outgoing President of the Institute, after consultation with the Vice Presidents, at least two of them being non-Italian internationally well-known jurists and at least one member being an Italian and well-known jurist.

– In addition, the Board of Directors may appoint up to maximum 3 (three) more members, representatives of States, or entities that have demonstrated interest and support to the activities of the Institute, in particular through financial support to the management or the activities of the Institute.

– The other 6 (six) members are ex officio members, and more specifically the representatives of the following entities:

  • the Mayor of the City of Siracusa, founding entity;
  • the Mayor of the City of Noto, founding entity;
  • the Councilor for Education and Training of the Sicilian Region, founding entity
  • the President of AIDP;
  • the President of the Academic Board of the Institute;
  • the President of the Italian Group of AIDP.

Khaled M. Ahmed

Judge, Court of Appeal of Tanta, Cairo (Egypt)

Amelie Bécquart

Immediate Office – Office of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court (France)

Peter Jozsef Csonka

Head of Unit, General Criminal Law, Directorate General Justice and Consumers, European Commission, Brussels (Belgium)

Zlata Durdević

Prof. at Department of Criminal Procedural Law – President of the Croatian Association of European Criminal Law (Croatia)

Els De Busser

Associate Professor Information Law – Programme Director Master Information Law – Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam (Belgium)

Corrado Figura

Mayor of Noto,City of Noto, Siracusa (Italy)

Francesco Italia

Mayor of Siracusa,
City of Siracusa (Italy)

Katalin Ligeti

Vice President in charge of scientific coordination, AIDP; Dean and Professor of European and International Criminal Law,
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance,
University of Luxemburg

Stefano Manacorda

Full professor of Criminal Law – University Unicampania, Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy)

Secretary General

Alfredo Nunzi

Secretary General, Head of the Department of Institutional and Legal Affairs,
European Police Office (EUROPOL), The Hague (The Netherlands)

William Schabas

Professor of International Law,
Faculty of Law,
Middlesex University,
London (United Kingdom)

Second Vice-President

Antonio Gullo

Second Vice-President, Full Professor of Criminal Law – Luiss School of Law, President of the Italian Group of AIDP

First Vice-President

Ulrika Sundberg

Ambassador, Special Envoy to the OIC, Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue, Sweden;
Vice President, AIDP

Kanako Takayama

 Professor of Criminal Law, Kyoto University (Japan)

President

Jean-François Thony

Honorary Prosecutor General (France);
Executive Vice-President, AIDP

Stanislaw Tosza

Secretary General, AIDP;
Associate Professor in Compliance and Law Enforcement,
University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

Girolamo Turano

Regional Councillor for Education and Training, Sicilian Region, Palermo (Italy)

Nadim Kyriakos-Saad

Former Assistant General Counsel, International Monetary Fund

Honorary Members 

José Luis De La Cuesta

Honorary President, AIDP;
Professor of Criminal Law and Director, Basque Institute of Criminology, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian (Spain)

Giuseppe Di Gennaro

Honorary President,
Supreme Court of Cassation, Rome (Italy)

Helmut Epp

Honorary Vice President, AIDP; Former Judge, Vienna (Austria)

Vitaliano Esposito

Former Attorney General, Supreme Court of Cassation, Rome (Italy)

Giovanni Maria Flick

Honorary President,
President Emeritus, Constitutional Court, Rome (Italy) 

Michael Greco

Retired partner K&L Gates LLP (USA)

Reynald Ottenhof

Honorary Vice President, AIDP; Professor Emeritus of Law,University of Nantes
Nantes (France)

Stephen Rapp

Former Ambassador-at-large, Office of Global Criminal Justice, Department of State (USA)

Simone Rozès

Honorary Vice President, AIDP; First Honorary President, Court of Cassation; Former President, International Society of Social Defence (SIDS); Former Advocate General, Court of the European Communities
Paris (France)

Christine Van Den Wyngaert

Vice President, AIDP;
Judge, Kosovo Special Chambers,
The Hague (Netherlands)

John Vervaele

Former President of AIDP, Professor of Criminal Law, Bruges (Belgium)

Francesco Viganò

Judge, Italian Constitutional Court;
Professor of Criminal Law,
University of Milan “Bocconi” (Italy)

Paola
Severino

Honorary Vice President,
President, Luiss School of Law, Rome

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