IMADR Officers

Our team consists of officers and the board members from around the world with extensive experience and expertise.

Chairpersons

Nimalka Fernando

Lawyer, IMADR Asia Committee
Shigeyuki Kumisaka

Former President, Buraku Liberation League Central Executive Committee

Fujihiko Nishijima

President, Buraku Liberation League Central Executive Committee

Anastasia Crickley

Former Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Maynooth University, Ireland
Romani Rose

Chairperson, Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
Helene Sackstein

Child, Gender, Information and Press Freedom Specialist
Durga Sob

Founder President, Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO)
Michael O. Sharpe

Professor of Political Science, York College of the City University of New York
Beena Pallical

General Secretary, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
Atsuko Miwa

Director, Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center
Masayuki Hattori

Executive Director, Industrial Federation for Human Rights, Tokyo
Zenko Fujimoto

Chairperson, Joint Conference of Religious Sects on Dowa Issues
Takashi Kajiwara

President, Japan Teachers Union
Masaru Ohkawa

Executive Director, Ainu Association of Hokkaido
Masahiko Tanigawa

Director, Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
Nanako Inaba

Professor, Sophia University
Takashi Akai

Secretary-General, Buraku Liberation League Central Executive Committee

Penda Mbow

Professor, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
Kenzo Tomonaga

Honorary Director, Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute
Yoko Hayashi

Lawyer, former Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)