Board of Directors

The members of the Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD) elected the Board of Directors at the Second GPDD Membership meeting in Turin (Italy) on October 2009.

The Board consists of 12 voting GPPD Board members (elected by the GPDD membership) and ex-officio GPDD Board members.

GPDD Board of Directors

Voting GPDD Board Members
The twelve (12) voting members elected to the GPDD Board of Directors are:

• Mr. Khandaker Jahurul Alam
  Asia Pacific Disability Forum

• Ms. Tanya Barron
  Leonard Cheshire Disability

• Ms. Oyuu Iyute Deborah
  World Federation of the Deaf

• Catalina Devandas
  RIADIS

• Ms. Maryanne Diamond
  World Blind Union

• Ms. Fadia Farah
  Inclusion International

• Mr. Kalle Könkkölä
  Disabled Peoples' International

• Mr. James Mwandha
  Commonwealth Disabled Peoples' Forum

• Ms. Rhonda Neuhaus
  Handicap International

• Ms. Indumathi Rao (Chairperson of the Board)
  CBR Network South Asia

• Ms. Susan Sygall
  Mobility International USA (MIUSA)

• Mr. Luk Zelderloo
  European Association of Service Provider for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD)

Ex-Officio GPDD Board Members

The ex-officio members of the GPDD Board of Directors are:

• Mr. Gisle Joaquim Hagen
  NORAD
• Ms. Akiko Ito
  UN Secretariat of CRPD
• Mr. Michael Morris
  Burton Blatt Institute
• Ms. Aleksandra Posarac
  World Bank
• Mr. Ronald Wiman
  THL