Members of the International Organising Committee of the Conference

“20 Years After Chernobyl: Strategy for Recovery and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions”

 (as of 20 February 2006)

Republic of Belarus
Vladimir Tsalko, Chairman, Committee on the Problems of the Consequences of the Catastrophe at the Chernobyl NPP under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (Co-Chair)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Resident Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative, (Co-Chair)

Republic of Belarus
Vitaly Kulik, Chairman, Standing Commission on Problems of Chernobyl Catastrophe, Ecology and Nature Management, House of Representatives, National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus

Republic of Belarus
Nickolai Kontsevoi, Deputy Executive Secretary – Chief of Administration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia in the Republic of Belarus

Republic of Belarus
Mikhail Myasnikovichm, Chairman of Presidium, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Republic of Belarus
Eleonora Kapitonova, Director, State Institution «Republican Scientific and Practical Centre of Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology»

Russian Federation
Ruslan Tsalikov, Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters

Ukraine
Vasily Kholosha, Deputy Minister, for Emergency Situations of Ukraine

IAEA
Mikhail Balonov, Division of Radiation and Waste Safety

IAEA
Andrei Chupov, Department of Technical Cooperation

World Bank
Vadim Voronin, Country Manager, WB Representative in the Republic of Belarus

World Health Organisation (WHO)
Egor Zaitsev, National Liaison Officer, Liaison Office in Minsk

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
Branislav Jekic, UNICEF Assistant Resident Representative

European Commission
Joachim Lehmann, Head of the Office in Minsk, TACIS Branch Office of the Delegation, of the European Commission to Belarus

Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Ake Peterson, Ambassador, Head of the Office in Minsk

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Dietrich Dreyer, Head of the Office in Minsk

European Union
Brian Bennett, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of UK in the Republic of Belarus, (EU Presidency in 2005)

Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in the Republic of Belarus
Martin Hecker, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Embassy of France in the Republic of Belarus
Stephane Chmelewsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Belarus
Yoshiro Morino, Charge d'affaires

Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Belarus
Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Otto Hug Institute of Radiology, Munich University

Germany
Edmund Lengfelder, Director, Professor, Charity association «Chernobyl Children Life Line»

Great Britain
Victor Mizzi, President, Chernobyl Children’s Project

Ireland
Adi Roche, Executive Director

NGO “German Association for Chernobyl Help”(DVTH)
Christine Frenzel, Deputy Chairperson

CORE Programme «Cooperation for Rehabilitation»
Zoya Trafimchik, Coordinator

IBB Dortmund
Peter Junge-Wentrup, Director