PNoWB Board and Governance Structure
The PNoWB is governed by a Board of Directors, composed of nine members. Members and Chair of the PNoWB Board are elected for a three-year term. The Association’s by-laws require a yearly partial renewal of the Board members at the PNoWB annual conference which also doubles as the PNoWB Annual General Meeting, the last of which was in Cape Town, in March 2007.
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Board members
Mr. Hugh Bayley, United Kingdom, PNoWB Chair
Hugh Bayley was re-elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for the City of York in May 2005, where he was first elected in 1992. He is member of the Select Committee on International Development and a founder member of All Party Africa Group. His first political mandate dated back to 1980 when he was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Camden (1980-1986). He moved to York in 1986 to become a research fellow in Health Economics at University of York. After his re-election for City of York in 1997, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Health, and then Junior Minister at the Department of Social Security, in January 1999. Hugh Bayley was appointed as Chair of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy by Jack Straw in 2005 and is also the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party International Development Committee.
Ms.
Monica Frassoni is a member of the European Parliament where she was first elected in 1999 as part of the Belgium Green Party (Ecolo) and then in 2004 as part of the Italian Green Party (Federazioni Dei Verdi), that she actively helped to set up, as a member of the Executive Committee.
She is member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur. and a substitute member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, of the Delegation for relations with Iran and of the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Since December 2001 Monica Frassoni serves as Co-President of the Green/EFA Group in the EP, along with Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
Personal website: http://www.monicafrassoni.it/
Mr. Yunus Carrim, South Africa, PNoWB Vice-Chair
Yunus Carrim is a member of the South African Parliament since 1994. He is the chair of the Public Enterprises Portfolio Committee and the chair of the Membership of Legislatures ad hoc Committee. His political engagement dated back to 1971, when he organised anti-Apartheid Republic Day Festival demonstrations at high school. He was detained without trial from August to December 1976 for organising demonstrations against Soweto massacre at the University of Durban-Westville. He is serving as the Executive Committee member of Natal Indian Congress and Council member of United Democratic Front (Pietermaritzburg) since the mid-eighties. He is also engaged in a range of community, sports and educational organisations. Before joining the parliament, Yunus Carrim was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Natal, (Pietermaritzburg) and a freelance journalist. He is the author of several academic articles and journalistic pieces on South African Politics, Labour, “National Question”, Local Government and other issues.
Ms. Betty McCollum,
Congresswoman Betty McCollum is member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving in her fourth term representing Minnesota’s capital city – Saint Paul. In 2000, McCollum made history as only the second woman ever elected to Congress since Minnesota statehood in 1858. She has been re-elected to Congress in 2002, 2004 and 2006. McCollum is a Democrat and a member of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party.
In Congress, Rep. McCollum serves on the powerful U.S. House Appropriations Committee and is a member of its Subcommittee on the State Department and Foreign Operations which allocates the annual U.S. international affairs budget of approximately $34 billion. Rep. McCollum is working to increase U.S. support for the Millennium Development Goals, a comprehensive response to the global AIDS pandemic and improving the status and health of women and children in the developing world.
Personal website: http://www.mccollum.house.gov/
Ms.
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Mr.
Santiago Castro Gomez was re-elected for forth term to the Colombian House of Representatives in 2006 in representation of the State of Valle del Cauca. Mr. Castro has dedicated most of his life to the public service. He started very young at the age of 24 years old as councilor of the City of Santiago de Cali during 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was member of the regional assembly, where he decided to make the next step to the House of Representatives. Since Mr. Castro has been in the House of Representatives, he has served in the Financial Committee, where economic and tax policies are discussed. Mr. Castro earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Catholic University of America. He has also a Master Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.
Personal website: http://www.santiagocastro.org/
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Mr. Kimmo Kiljunen,
Kimmo Kiljunen served within the United Nations as Transition Policy Coordinator for UNDP in New York in 1993-1994 and as a consultant for UNICEF in Kenya, in 1989-1991. He also underwent an academic career as Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in 1986-1995. Kimmo Kiljunen is the author of several books on international politics and development issues.
Personal website: http://www2.eduskunta.fi/fakta/edustaja/464/englanti.htm