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Board of Directors

The governing body of the Institute is an independent 21-member Board of Directors, 10 of whom are elected by the Conseil de Direction of the AIDP from internationally renowned scholars and experts, 4 appointed directly by the Board, and 7 ex-officio members:
the Mayor of the City of Siracusa;
the Mayor of the City of Noto;
the representative of the Sicilian Region;
the President of the Free Consortium of Municipalities of Siracusa (former Province of Siracusa);
the President of the AIDP;
the President of the Italian Section of the AIDP;
the Rector of the University of Catania.
The governing body of the Institute is an independent 21-member Board of Directors, 10 of whom are elected by the Conseil de Direction of the AIDP from internationally renowned scholars and experts, 4 appointed directly by the Board, and 7 ex-officio members:
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the Mayor of the City of Siracusa;
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the Mayor of the City of Noto;
the representative of the Sicilian Region;
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the President of the Free Consortium of Municipalities of Siracusa (former Province of Siracusa);
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the President of the AIDP;
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the President of the Italian Section of the AIDP;
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the Rector of the University of Catania.

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

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

Vice-President
Paola Severino
Vice President, University LUISS “Guido Carli”, Rome (Italy); Vice President, AIDP; President, Italian Section of the AIDP

Secretary General
Ezechia Paolo Reale
Attorney, Siracusa (Italy)

Khaled M. Ahmed
Honorary Prosecutor General (France);
Executive Vice-President, AIDP

Francesco Italia
Mayor of Siracusa,
City of Siracusa (Italy)

Steve Becker
Deputy Secretary General, AIDP; Attorney at Law, Chicago (USA)

Peter Jozsef Csonka
Head of Unit, General Criminal Law,Directorate General Justice and Consumers, European Commission

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

Ahmed F. Khalifa
Deputy Secretary General, AIDP;
Assistant Professor of Criminal Law,
Ain Shams University, Cairo (Egypt)

Roberto Lagalla
Regional Councillor for Education and Training,Sicilian Region, Palermo (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

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

Cristina Mauro
Treasurer, AIDP; Magistrate; Deputy Head of the Statute and Deontology Office,
Directorate of Judicial Services, Ministry of Justice, Paris (France)

Domenico Pecorella
Commissioner, Free Consortium of Municipalities of Siracusa (former Province of Siracusa), Siracusa (Italy)

Francesco Priolo
Rector, University of Catania, Catania (Italy)

María Angeles Ramos
Deputy Secretary General, AIDP;
Prosecutor,
Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Humanity,
Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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

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

John Vervaele
President, AIDP;
Professor of Criminal Law,
Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and CriminologyFaculty of Law, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

Xiumei Wang
Vice President, AIDP;
Professor of International Criminal Law,
College for Criminal Law Science,
Beijing Normal University (China)

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
President Emeritus,Constitutional Court, Rome (Italy)

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

Antonio Pagliaro
Former Professor of Criminal Law and Former Director of the Department of Criminal Law,
University of Palermo
Palermo (Italy)

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)

Ahmad Fathi Sorour
Former President of the Egyptian Parliament;
Former President of the International Parliamentary Union;
Former Minister of Education;
Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law,
Cairo University;
Former Vice Rector and Dean, Faculty of Law,
University of Cairo (Egypt)

Christine Van Den Wyngaert
Vice President, AIDP;
Judge, Kosovo Special Chambers,
The Hague (Netherlands)

Francesco Viganò
Judge, Italian Constitutional Court;
Professor of Criminal Law,
University of Milan “Bocconi” (Italy)
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
President Emeritus, Constitutional Court, Rome (Italy)
Reynald Ottenhof
Honorary Vice President, AIDP; Professor Emeritus of Law,University of Nantes
Nantes (France)
Christine Van Den Wyngaert
Vice President, AIDP;
Judge, Kosovo Special Chambers,
The Hague (Netherlands)
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)
Ahmad Fathi Sorour
Former President of the Egyptian Parliament; Former President of the International Parliamentary Union; Former Minister of Education;
Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Cairo University; Former Vice Rector and Dean, Faculty of Law,
University of Cairo (Egypt)
Francesco Viganò
Judge, Italian Constitutional Court;
Professor of Criminal Law,
University of Milan “Bocconi” (Italy)