Advisory Board of HEUNI
The international Advisory Board of HEUNI serves as an important link with the United Nations and the various regions of Europe. The Chairman of the Advisory Board and four of its members are appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, after consultation with the Government of Finland.
Four members of the Board, including the Director of HEUNI, are appointed by the Government of Finland. A representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime participates ex officio in all deliberations of the Advisory Board. The members of the Advisory Board are appointed for a period of five years.
For the 2023 – 2027 term the composition of the Board
- Dr Katja Franko, Chairman of the Board, Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo
- Dr Mark Shaw, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
- Dr Alexander TrautrimsLink to an external website, University of Nottingham
- Dr Andrea Di Nicola, Director of the Centre of Security and Crime Sciences and Associate Professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento
- Stephanie Futter-Orel, Executive Manager, WAVE Network (Women Against Violence Europe)
- Director, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC, (ex officio member)
- Dr Elina Pirjatanniemi, Professor, Director, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University
- Paulina Tallroth, Senior Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Justice
- Dr Natalia Ollus, Director, HEUNI