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Amal van Hees

Amal van Hees, Director,

Mrs. Van Hees is the Director of the GCC program at Bridging the Gulf, The Netherlands. She is a lawyer, graduated at Pantheon Assas University (Paris, France). Previously, she worked at Amnesty International Netherlands as a coordinator for the Middle East & North Africa region, and as Head of the Middle East department at the Mama Cash foundation. She is a former UNESCO staff member and served as a Program Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM). She has been teaching NGOs studies and capacity building at Webster University. As expert for the Middle East & North Africa region, Mrs. Van Hees has a long experience in working in the field of human rights, agency and participation, democracy, peace and security. She has participated in different international panels and debates, wrote different articles and conducted research, monitoring and evaluation in the field of NGOs work and civil society capacity building.

Harry Hummel

Harry Hummel, Senior Advisor,

Mr. Hummel is the Executive Director of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC), an NGO working primarily on strengthening human rights and the rule of law through exchange of expertise and capacity-building, both in the semi-governmental sector and in civil society organizations. He was a member of the board of Amnesty International from 1979 till 1983 and then continued with Amnesty as a staff member, working in a wide range of positions, including Head of Campaigns, Senior Strategy Director and acting Executive Director. In 2008, Mr. Hummel served as the Executive Secretary of the First Human Rights Tulip, the Dutch government's human rights award.

Adel Al Qallaf

Adel Al Qallaf, Regional web community coordinator,

Adel Al Qallaf is a Kuwaiti civil society activist. Besides his dedication for human rights he working as telecommunications engineer. Adel is an active member of the Kuwaiti based Al Salam centre for strategic studies the national human rights association. His main focus are mechanisms of international protection of human rights, the Universal Periodic Review for the GCC countries, and the regional dimension. He trains other activists on human rights issues which are relevant to the region. He is specialized in youth mobilization and empowerment supporting our regional web community.