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 Moller
Michael Moller (Denmark) is the Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Prior to assuming this position, he served for 30 years with the United Nations. 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 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 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 Fark has a Masters degree in Violence, Conflict and Development (Political Economics) from the University of London and about 10 years of international development and 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. He is currently Operations Manager for MSF Canada.

 

Member of the Board and Chair, Membership Committee
Daniel Toole
Daniel Toole is currently the UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia. Prior to this assignment he served four years as Director of the Office of Emergency Programmes for UNICEF, in New York. Prior to assignment as Director of Emergency Programmes at UNICEF, Mr. Toole was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer for Acumen Fund, a venture philanthropy investment fund. He continues to serve on the Acumen Fund Advisory Board. Previously, he served 15 years in various positions at UNICEF: as Chief of the Office of the Executive Director of UNICEF; as UNICEF’s Country Representative in Rwanda where he was responsible for directing and implementing the country’s emergency relief program post-genocide. He also served as UNICEF Country Representative in Mali and Deputy Representative in Tanzania.  Prior to these management positions, he advised numerous countries on issues of household food security. Prior to UNICEF, he served with USAID in Burundi and with the Peace Corps in Central African Republic. He holds an MA from The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands and a BA from the University of Arizona. 

Member of the Board
Claude Bruderlein

Claude 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
• Claude Bruderlein, Director, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at the Harvard School of Public Health
• Fernando de la Mora, Associate of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) 
• Bruno Demeyere, Advisor on International Humanitarian Law, HPCR, and Ph.D Candidate, Institute for International Law from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
• Phillip Drew, Chief Standards Officer, Canadian Forces Military Law Centre
• Michael Fark, Operations Manager, MSF Canada
• Francesca Fraccaroli, Information Analyst, Joint Mission Analysis Centre (JMAC), AU/UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur, UNAMID
• Fritz Froehlich, Coordinator, UNRWA at 60
• Elizabeth Holland, Program Associate, HPCR
• Pamela Husain, Programme/Planning Officer, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, UNAMI Amman
• Natascha Hryckow, Senior Political Advisor, NATO, Afghanistan
  
• Olivia Kalis, DRC Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam Great Britain, Kinshasa
• Lucio Melandri, Emergency Coordinator, UNICEF, Pakistan
• Naz Modirzadeh, Associate Director, HPCR
• Michael Møller, most recently, Executive Director, Kofi Annan Foundation
• 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, Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer, OCHA Pakistan, Islamabad, currently seconded to the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Pakistan
• Cornelia Schneider, Rule of Law Advisor, EUPOL, Afghanistan
  
• Patrick Schneider, Political Adviser, EUJUST LEX-Iraq, Council of the European Union
• Andrew Shaver, Regional Program Manager AECOM International Development, South Sudan
• Mark Simmons, Country Director, FAR Sudan
• Eva Smets, Director, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
• Daniel Toole, Regional Director for South Asia, UNICEF, Nepal