Contributors Dženana Hadžiomerović is a Legal Adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Previously she was Deputy Human Rights Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina, a human rights institution established by Annex 6 of the Dayton Peace Agreement. She was also a judge and a legal council (advocate, running private practice) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dr Kristin Henrard is a senior lecturer at the University of Groningen where she teaches human rights, refugee law and constitutional law. She graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium magna cum laude in 1994 and obtained an LLM degree at Harvard Law School in 1995, specializing in human rights and humanitarian law. She took her doctorate at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1999. She also worked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa as researcher for Judge Kriegler and monitored the South African constitutional negotiations in 1996 for the Flemish Government. Her main publications relate to human rights and minority protection. Kristin Henrard is managing editor of the Netherlands International Law Review, member of the international advisory board of the Global Review of Ethnopolitics, chair of a working group on the political participation of minorities and country specialist on South Africa for Amnesty International - Dutch Section. PART IV Robert Dunbar is Reader in Law at King’s College, Aberdeen. He holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto in International Relations, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. He specializes in the rights of linguistic minorities in both international law and in comparative legal contexts, and has published widely on such issues. He is an expert of the Council of Europe in respect of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. He has advised a range of NGOs and Human Rights Commissions on language matters, particularly in relation to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Dr Andrea Krizsán has been a Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies of the Central European University, Budapest, since 2002. She works as a researcher on projects related to gender mainstreaming, disability discrimination, minority ombudsman institutions and ethnic monitoring. She is the group mentor for the Equal Opportunity Policy group of the International Policy Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute. Her PhD, written at the Political Science Department of the Central European University, was about anti-discrimination policy and the role of the minority ombudsman in enforcing such policies. She has published in English and Hungarian on minority policies, anti-discrimination policy and minority ombudsman institutions. Marnie Lloydd holds a B.A. and a first class LL.B.(Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is a qualified barrister and solicitor of New Zealand. In addition to her legal practice, she has obtained a European Masters in International Humanitarian Assistance from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany and has since focused on minority issues in her work. At ECMI, she heads the Ombudspersons and Minority Issues Network Project and leads workshops at project training events. 89