Our Board
30 committed women and men with disabilities representing the membership stend for the rights of persons with disabilities in EDF and in a variety of events and actions to ensure the voice of persons with disabilities is heard.
EDF Board 2017-2022
Who are they?
The EDF board of Directors is composed of the president and 30 members coming from 16 National Councils and 14 European NGO of which 12 are full members and two ordinary members. The Board of Director is elected every four years.
Role
The Board of Director is responsible for the supervision of the daily management of the organization and the work of the Secretariat including the drafting of the budget and accounts and the work programme, the external relations and the cooperation with third parties, the decision on membership applications and the exclusion of members. The Board elects the executive committee.
List of members
By alphabetical order
Albert Prevos
French Council of Disabled People for European Affairs (CFHE)
Ana Peláez
EDF Vice-President
Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidad (CERMI)
Athena Frangouli
Social Firms Europe
Branislav Mamojka
Slovak Disability Council (NROZP)
Cato Lie
International Federation of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF)
Christina Wurzinger
Austrian Disability Council (Der Österreichische Behindertenrat)
Francisco Vano
International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability (FIMITIC)
Gabor Petri
Mental Health Europe
Giampiero Griffo
Disability International People Europe (DPI-Europe)
Gisèle Marlière
Belgian Disability Forum (BDF)
Goran Kustura
Slovenian National Disability Council
Gunta Anca
The Latvian Umbrella Body for Disability Organisations (SUSTENTO)
Humberto Insolera
European Union of the Deaf
John Dolan
Disability Federation Ireland (DFI)
Jolijn Santegoeds
European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP)
Luisa Bosisio Fazzi
Italian Disability Forum
Marcel Bobeldijk
European Federation of Hard of Hearing (EFHOH)
Marica Miric
Croatian Union of Associations of Persons with Disabilities (SOIH)
Maureen Piggot
EDF Treasurer
Inclusion Europe
Klaus Lachwitz
Deutscher Behindertenrat (DBR)
Nadia Hadad
European Network on Independent Living (ENIL)
John Patrick Clarke
EDF Vice President
European Down Syndrom Association (EDSA)
Pierre Gyselinck
Action Européen des Handicapées (EAH)
Pirko Mahlamaki
Finnish Disability Forum
Rodolfo Cattani
European Blind Union
Thorkild Olesen
Disabled Peoples Organisation Denmark
Thurídur Sigurdardottir
The Organisation of Disabled in Iceland
Vera Bonvalot
Brain Injured and Families – European Confederation
Yannis Vardakastanis
EDF President
National Confederation of Disabled People (NCDP)