Mehmet Balci, Programme Director and Permanent Representative of Geneva Call to the European Union, is a journalist and a human rights activist. After having studied foreign languages for many years, he collaborated with different Kurdish political and non-governmental organizations as representative next to the EU, UN, Council of Europe and OSCE. He has authored several articles in the Kurdish and Turkish press. He is founder of the Turkish Campaign to Ban Landmines and member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines Non-State Actors Working Group. He has so far authored Landmine Monitor report on Turkey for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and the booklet Turkey Without Mines. He joined Geneva Call in 2000.

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Karima Jambulatova, Programme Officer for Europe and Caucasus, holds a TEFL degree from the South Kazakhstan University and a MA degree in Gender Studies from the Central European University in Budapest. Before joining Geneva Call in September 2010, she worked for more than three years as Technical Officer in the Health Action in Crises Cluster at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva. In 2006, she taught English and volunteered for UNODC’s anti-trafficking project in Bogota, Colombia. For 2,5 years, she worked as Counter-trafficking Programme Coordinator at the International Organization for Migration in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Prior to that, she coordinated an undergraduate exchange program at IREX, and conducted a brief overview of CEDAW implementation in CIS countries with UNIFEM in Almaty.