Daniel D’Esposito
Daniel D’Esposito, Executive Director
Email: danieldesposito@huridocs.org; Skype: daniel.desposito
Daniel was HURIDOCS capacity building officer from 2006 to 2009, after serving ten years with the ICRC, both in the field and at headquarters, in the field of humanitarian protection (visits to detainees to prevent torture and disappearances and improve conditions of detention, and monitoring respect for international humanitarian law by warring parties). Daniel holds a BA in political science from the University of Lausanne and an MSc in NGO Management from the London School of Economics.
Bert Verstappen
Bert Verstappen, Senior Documentalist
Email: info@huridocs.org; Skype: berthuridocs
Bert Verstappen has been working with HURIDOCS since 1987. He coordinated the work of different Task Forces and co-authored main HURIDOCS publications such as the Events Standard Formats, Micro-thesauri, What is documentation? and What is monitoring? He has a wide experience in organising and providing training on human rights documentation. Bert is a historian from the Netherlands and previously worked with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
Peter Küttel
Peter Küttel – Operations Manager
Email: peter.kuttel@huridocs.org; Skype: peter_geneva
Peter has worked for 11 years for Procter & Gamble in Geneva. Originally a key account and customer marketing manager, he was then in working on global strategic alliances, establishing external partnership programmes in Central/Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, India and Malaysia.
Peter has always had a strong interest in social responsibility and humanitarian aid. He left Procter & Gamble in autumn 2008 to travel the world and to start working for NGOs. He started with the Women’s World Summit Foundation, where he was the coordinator for the prevention programme against violence on women. Since January 2010 Peter is working part time as as Project Coordinator Communication for the NGO Management Association Switzerland.
Since April 2012 is working part-time for Huridocs as Operations Manager. His mains tasks are internal administration as well as project management for NGOs based in the Balkans and Central Europe.
Friedhelm Weinberg
Friedhelm Weinberg, Communications Specialist
Email: friedhelm@huridocs.org; Skype: friedhelm.kreisau
Since October 2012, Friedhelm is on twitter, writes blog posts and joins discussions on the web and in the real world – to make sure HURIDOCS is in touch with people and technology. If you are a journalist or on a similar mission, he is your first port of call. For HURIDOCS’ partners, he provides training to improve their communication and advocacy. Previously, he has worked as a journalist in Germany and Russia. He holds a BA in International Relations from TU Dresden and an MA in Political Science from University College London and Jagiellonian University Krakow.
Basheer Alzoughbi
Basheer AlZoughbi, Researcher and Project Manager for Middle East
Email: basheer.alzoughbi@huridocs.org; Skype: bashiril
Basheer AlZoughbi research interests lie in public international law branches especially international human rights law, IHL, international criminal law, state responsibility law, and international diplomatic law. He has pursued an LL.M in European Union Law (Reading-UK), M.A in Human Rights Law (Malta), M.A in International Relations Management (Milano-Italy). He has worked with several local and international organisations, including Facilitate Global (UK) and the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (Palestine). At HURIDOCS, Basheer coordinates documentation and research work relating to the Arab world.
