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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Armin Köhli, Programme Officer for the Middle East, has been working with Geneva Call since May 2007. In his former profession as a journalist, he worked as the foreign editor at the Swiss weekly “Die Wochenzeitung” from 2000 to 2007. He chaired the board of the Swiss edition of “Le Monde Diplomatique” until 2008. Prior to that, he studied foreign languages and worked as a freelance journalist and tour guide, mainly in the Middle East. He has volunteered in different humanitarian, political and cultural NGOs and contributed significantly to the landmine ban movement and mine action-NGOs through his numerous impressive achievements in endurance cycling.

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Ann-Kristin ‘Anki’ Sjöberg, first joined Geneva Call in 2004. She has occupied a variety of positions within the organization, including as Research Coordinator, Strategy and Evaluation Officer and, currently, as Senior Programme Officer in charge of Latin America. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations with a specialization in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and her MA at Södertörns Högskola, Sweden. Her work has focused on research and operational work with and on NSAs, on which she has published extensively. She has also worked on issues related to gender, armed conflict and security sector reform in Colombia, Nepal, South Sudan, and West Africa. Since June 2011 she is President of the Gender and Mine Action Programme.