The team
15 employees are part of the ECPM team wich is structured aroung different divisions: management and finance, international programmes, teaching and awareness-raising, and communication. The team significantly grows during the World and Regional Congresses depending on the needs. See our recruitement page to know our available intern positions and jobs.
Management and administration
Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, Executive Director
Advocacy and Human Rights Public Policy Specialist, Raphael is working on the different UN Bodies and the different Death Penalty thematics (minorities, foreign fighters, terrorism, discriminations, political Instrumentalization). Raphaël had worked in the past for different International Solidarity organisations as well as Red Cross, Caritas France or the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Africa (Chad, Niger, Cameroon) and Asia (Indonesia, Sri Lanka India). He represents ECPM within ECOSOC at the UN and develops an ongoing dialogue with diplomats of abolitionist and retentionist states as parliamentarians from many countries around the world to advance abolitionist strategies.
Ariane Grésillon, Deputy Executive Director
Ariane Grésillon is responsible for developing partnerships, recruitment and management of human resources, and overseeing monitoring and evaluation of the association’s programmes in France and abroad.
Nadège Poulain, Administrative and Financial Director
Nadège Poulain has been the association’s Administrative and Financial Director since 2012. She is responsible for the sound financial and administrative management of the association and its programmes, in compliance with the strictest rules laid down by funders. As a member of the management committee, she actively participates in the strategic development of the association through its various governing bodies.
Saïd Jamali, Programs Financial and Administrative Manager
Said JAMALI, holder of a Master’s degree in Financial and Accounting Management from the National School of Commerce and Management in Casablanca (Morocco) and a Master’s degree in Social and Solidarity Economy from Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, joined ECPM in January 2025 as “Programs Financial and Administrative Manager”. With extensive experience from organizations such as the British Council Morocco, Planning Familial 34, and Solidarité Sida, he is responsible for budgetary and financial management, ensuring project monitoring in close collaboration with implementing partners and donors. A passionate football enthusiast, he combines professional rigor and team spirit to actively support ECPM’s strategic objectives.
Yaël Davigo, Administration and Finances Assistant
Yaël holds a Master’s degree in International Cooperation and Multilingual Communication from the University of Grenoble and joined the team in September 2022. She had previously completed an internship in ECPM’s international programmes and administration departments, as well as a civic service within the Prison Insider association.
Anna Levy, Political and Financial Mobilisation Officer
Anna Levy holds an LL.M in Human Rights from Oxford Brookes University, England, after acquiring a solid background in law at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. She is also a volunteer with the French Coalition Against the Death Penalty (FCADP), pursuing the struggle for abolition and denouncing the deplorable conditions of detention in the United States.
Atopeh Naounou, Work-study Student in Human Resources
Atopeh is the first ECPM Work-study Student to set up an initial HR policy with plans for changes in all 4 areas of HRM. She is helping the association to set up HR monitoring tools to optimize its management.
Céleste Percher, Political and Financial Mobilisation Intern
Currently pursuing a Master’s in Conflict Studies and Mediation, Céleste joined the ECPM team in January 2026 for her final-year internship. She is assisting with financial and political advocacy efforts, particularly in preparation for the 9th World Congress Against the Death Penalty.
International Programmes
Nicolas Perron, Programs Director
Nicolas Perron has worked for ECPM since 2008. As Director of Programs, he oversees all of ECPM’s activities in France and internationally, particularly in the MONA region, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. He regularly represents the association in the field and participates in dialogues with political actors and intergovernmental organizations.
Marie-Lina Pérez, Head of Africa-Asia Desk
Marie-Lina Pérez is a legal expert. She worked at the OHCHR in Geneva and at ECPM before moving to Kenya where she developed a programme on children’s rights and then joined the Alliance française de Nairobi. In 2016, Marie-Lina joined the ECPM team for the 6th World Congress against the Death Penalty in Oslo. As Head of Africa-Asia Desk, Marie-Lina works with local partners on strategies, capacity building as well as national and international advocacy development. She has also coordinated the editing of several ECPM publications.
Julia Bourbon Fernandez, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Desk
Julia Bourbon-Fernandez trained as a lawyer before working for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Chad and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). She joined ECPM in 2017 and is currently Head of the MENA Desk. She works with local actors on strategies, advocacy at the national, regional and international level, capacity building and awareness raising. She coordinated several ECPM publications.
Anna Dubarle, Programme Officer
After obtaining a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, Anna completed an internship in the ECPM communications department in 2018, during the organisation of the Regional Congress in Abidjan. She went on to work in the French office of The ONE Campaign as a project assistant where she contributed to the coordination of advocacy and campaigns for the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Since 2022, she has been involved in monitoring and implementing our international programmes.
Moulaye Ascofaré, Programme Assistant
Moulaye holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Peace Studies from the Paris Dauphine University. He first joined ECPM as an intern in the administrative and international programs departments. Now a Program Assistant, he has prior experience within embassies and international organizations, gained while being actively involved with refugees in Paris.
Teaching and awareness-raising
Laure Boukabza, Head of Teaching Program
Specialised in mediation and education, Laure Boukabza has been putting her skills and activism to work in the field of human rights education and awareness-raising for over twelve years. Conscious of the added value of innovative and entertaining solutions, she pays great attention to the methods used to change mentalities. Today, she is responsible for ECPM’s teaching programme, coordinating the association’s educational activities in France and the activities of the Teaching Abolition International Network.
Luce Gimenez, Education and Training Project Manager
Luce obtained a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, which gave her the opportunity to conduct research in Benin on the status of the child in society, through the lens of education and play. She then went on to work in the field of popular education, with the aim of promoting the autonomy of the individual in his or her learning process, as well as fueling her reflection on interculturality to the public. From now on, she will continue her investment in education by working for the abolition of the death penalty and, more generally, for the defence of human rights.
Communication
Bertin Leblanc, Director of Communications
Bertin Leblanc was a journalist for more than 25 years at Télé-Québec, Radio-Canada, France 24 and TV5 Monde from Montreal to Brussels via Paris and Washington, before joining the Quebec diplomatic service as Cultural Affairs Advisor at the Quebec General Delegation in Paris. He then headed Amnesty International’s communications department for four years, before becoming spokesperson for the Secretary General of La Francophonie, and then editor-in-chief at Reporters Without Borders (RSF). He now devotes his time to communication and writing.
Clémentine Trocellier, Communication Officer
After obtaining a degree in European Studies in English and a first year Master’s degree in International Politics, Clémentine completed a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. With several experiences abroad and a strong interest for associative and cultural matters, she uses her creativity to implement the projects of the ECPM Communication team.
Iris Jiménez Espejo, Communication Intern
Holder of a Bachelor’s in Communication and a Master’s in Human Rights, Iris joined the team in January 2025 as an intern to support the communications department in its projects and contribute her knowledge and experience. She has also volunteered with various humanitarian organizations in several countries, including Spain and Colombia. Having never worked in the NGO sector before, she is eager to learn as much as possible from the experience and expertise of her colleagues, while collaborating with them to abolish the Death Penalty.
Board of Directors
Aminata Niakate, President
Aminata has been a lawyer at the Paris Bar since 2010 and is committed to equality and human rights issues. She chairs the Parity-Equality Commission of the National Union of Liberal Professions. She is highly involved in her profession, chairing the Equality Commission of the National Bar Council between 2018 and 2020. Since November 2020, she has been President of ECPM, where she has been active since 2009.
Laurent Duarte, General Secretary
Laurent Duarte is an activist and the Executive Secretary of the Turn the Page movement, which brings together more than 250 organisations in Africa and Europe to promote democracy and human rights. Formerly coordinator of the International Human Rights Film Festival, he has been a director of ECPM since 2020.
Marie Doucet-Lechantre, Alternate General Secretary
Marie Doucet-Lechantre has been a human rights activist since her teenage years, and is a specialised teacher and trainer in the French national education system. She joined the fight for universal abolition of the death penalty with ECPM ten years ago, and became a member of its Board of Directors in 2020. She has four children and is a member of the Board of the Centre Contre les Manipulations Mentales.
Leïla Bordie-Randera, Treasurer
Leïla Bordie-Randera is currently Head of Fundraising and Communications at Secours Catholique and Caritas Habitat. She has been involved in the voluntary sector for several years, both as an employee and as a volunteer, particularly in the areas of equity and solidarity.
Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, Director
Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner has been an abolitionist campaigner since she was a teenager. She is a member of the board of directors of the association Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), which she has represented on the steering committee of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty since 2009. She was responsible for the programme of debates at the 5th World Congress against the Death Penalty, held in Madrid in 2013. She is the wife of Hank Skinner, who was sentenced to death in Texas in March 1995, and fought at his side for twenty-seven years to prove his innocence and obtain his release, until his death in February 2023.
Frédérique Delaugerre, Director
A former primary school teacher, Frédérique Delaugerre went on to hold a number of positions in various ministries dealing with economic issues, energy, the environment, electronic communications, town and country planning, and spent many years working on European negotiations. She has always been passionate about international affairs and the promotion of human rights in particular, and joined ECPM at the beginning of 2021 to conduct awareness-raising activities in schools and, more recently, as an observer on its Board of Directors prior to her appointment.
Adriano Martins, Director
Adriano Martins was European Union official from 1986 to 2022 having assumed various responsibilities: Acting Director of the European Agency for Reconstruction of the Western Balkans, Deputy EU Ambassador to Serbia, Deputy Head of the Division in charge of political relations with the Eastern Partnership countries and the last five years in charge of EU actions for human rights, including the management of the EU’s external policy in favor of the abolition of the death penalty.
Richard Sédillot, Director
Richard Sédillot graduated from the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Paris II and frequently consults and litigates abroad. He has been involved in major political, criminal and family law cases. He has represented clients and provided legal assistance in numerous foreign courts, as well as the United Nations Dispute Tribunal, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the African Commission on Human Rights and various disciplinary bodies.
Me Edmond Fréty, Director
Edmond Fréty is a lawyer practising in Paris, with a focus on criminal law, intellectual property law and new technologies, information technology and communication law. He provides legal advice and representation to his clients.