PPI Conference 2018/Board candidatures

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Here you can submit your application for PPI board member. To submit your application copy-paste the table or write an e-mail with the information to board@pp-international.net and we will add you to the list.

Sponsors - According to IV (4) (b) and V (2) (b) of the PPI statutes candidates to any body of the PPI must be proposed by an ordinary or observer member of the PPI. If you submit your application please indicate your sponsor before the conference. Please submit by 2nd, November 2018 - late submissions are at the discretion of the GA

Please use the following template:

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Chairperson (1 position)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Name and nicks	Guillaume Saouli
Sponsor	PP-DE
member of Pirate Party	PP-CH
qualifications	Current chair of PPI
language(s)	en/de/fr
motivation and political background
Contact data

Board members (3 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Name and nicks	Michal Gill
Sponsor	Czech Pirate Party (PPCZ)
member of Pirate Party	Czech Pirate Party (PPCZ)
qualifications	I currently work as a translator from Czech to English, have a B.A. in history, I've participated or even lead multiple elections in my six years in the party (local el. to parl. el.), currently I'm a PP district chapter president for Karviná
language(s)	Great: Czech, English; Not that great: German, Polish; In quite a basic manner: French, Italian, Latin
motivation and political background	I worked for a year as a regional coordinator for PPCZ, lead a couple month campaign bus prior to the 2017 parliamentary election, I consider myself to be an Eurofederalist and am a very liberal person, my political goals are no smaller that for EU to surpass USA in the term of integration within my lifetime, if elected I'd strive for PPI to be way more visible to the world, to profess the PPs' unity to the public and to make sure the internal cooperation is as deep as it can be.
Contact data	michal.gill@pirati.cz / +420 603 590 571

Name and nicks	Stanley Cohen
Sponsor	PP-NO
member of Pirate Party	-
qualifications	Lawyer
language(s)	English
motivation and political background	The New York times profiled lawyer Stanley L. Cohen is long-time social justice attorney and activist. For ten years he has been subjected to aggressive investigation and harassment by various agencies of the United States federal government, ultimately leading to criminal indictments being filed against him in two jurisdictions, relating to income tax matters. Stanley Cohen has a long history of standing with and for the disadvantaged and the disaffected. After coming of age as a social worker and an organizer in the anti-war and economic justice movements, he became a lawyer in 1983 and spent seven years as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx. Later, in private practice he continued to advocate for and represent many people the government would like to silence or put in jail: Palestinian freedom fighters, Muslim preachers, North American natives living on Indian reservations, marijuana dealers, anti-war protestors, radical squatters, the homeless, “hacktivist” information activists, members of national liberation movements, anarchists, and anti-Zionists among many others. Stanley Cohen is honored to be nominated to the board of Pirate Parties International and the nominating party, PPNO, feels that his set of skills and knowledge of very central pirate causes will be a great addition to any board. He is published frequently speaking truth to power. You can find some of his writings in Al Jazeera and Counter Punch Here is a recent portrait article of Mr. Up the Rebels himself in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/nyregion/stanley-cohen-lawyer-terrorists.html
Contact data	https://twitter.com/StanleyCohenLaw

Name and nicks	Kitty Hundal
Sponsor	PP-NO
member of Pirate Party	-
qualifications	software development
language(s)	English
motivation and political background	Kitty Hundal has a been a life long pirate from her first regular Saturday visits to her local public library as a child, to her first career in Libraries. She advocated strongly for free speech, a free press and took a consistent stand against censorship of print material and later against the attempts by various industries to prevent the introduction of audio-visual materials into library systems. Since Libraries were early adopters of computer systems and the “internet” (such as it was at the time), she was also an early user of those systems. Her second career in software development as well as the enhancement of the Internet as we now know it, the development of the Web, led her down the path of being an early file sharer. The same path which eventually launched the creation of the Pirate movement by key figures in the file sharing circles. Those Internet years were spent lurking/learning about digital privacy, encryption, and social hacktivism from the cypherpunks, 2600 and other such early entities. Kitty is not well known and has always preferred to maintain a low key presence. However, the world is changing and we’ve all had to change with it. While Kitty believes that the party system itself is outdated and stands in the way of increased democratization, digital and civil rights, privacy for the powerless and transparency for the powerful, she understands that evolutions often require transitions. She sees the Pirate Party as the means to bring about such a transition. Kitty went into early retirement a few years ago and decided at that time to devote her time and energy to social activism which both defends those who are being persecuted for working to invoke positive change and to participate in invoking such change herself. Live like a pirate, die like a pirate :heart: Kitty Hundal Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Contact data	kittyhundal[at]protonmail.com

Name and nicks	Ladislav Koubek
Sponsor	PPCZ
member of Pirate Party	PPCZ
qualifications	I currently work as advisor for the Parliamentary Club of the Czech Pirate Party in the Parliament, and serve as councilman in the Prague’s 10th district. I worked as United Nations Staff Member on three occasions: UNDP Mongolia (sustainable development), UNDP Solomon Islands (post-conflict rehabilitation) and UN OCHA Afghanistan (humanitarian funding). I monitored elections with OSCE in Macedonia and Moldova, and managed project portfolio of bilateral donor, the Czech Development Agency, in Palestine (West Bank) and Mongolia. I volunteered in an NGO in Syria and organized fundraising after earthquake in Kashmir. Earlier, I worked a well-paid job in ICT Business Consulting, which I gave up to embark on the mission to support people living in poorer countries. Kindly refer to my Linkedin profile for details. I consider myself to be a citizen of the World, having roots in the Central Europe and Czech Republic. I am a strong supporter of the fight for universal human rights. I hate racisms, Islamophobia, etc. I am a great fan of the SDGs with UN’s Agenda 2030, and alternative approaches to economic development integrating principles of sustainable development theory. I stand for the Pirates’ core agenda e.g. promoting open source, keeping net neutrality and I oppose the EU copyright reform.
language(s)	English
motivation and political background	I would be delighted to support activities of PPI as a Board Member. I will present my vision how to contribute to PPI in person. See you in Munich!
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Name and nicks	Magnus Andersson
Sponsor	PP-NO
member of Pirate Party	PP-SE
qualifications	Occupation: Full-time Test and Quality Manager at Novacura AB, a Swedish software development and consultancy firm, and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. Political alignment: Technooptimistic progressive social liberal [is my best guess] I joined the Swedish Pirate Party in 2009, as many did at the time, due to the theater revolving the trial of the founders of The Pirate Bay. I was appalled by how the judicial system was so totally out of tune with the digital revolution that was happening and at the same time so corrupted by the copyright industry. But it took until July 2014 for me to make my first attempt to meet the Pirates, in the yearly political meet-and-greet week known as Almedalen. It didn’t take long until I was knee-deep involved in the party. My political career started with the coordination of ballot distribution for the national elections in September 2014, something that all parties running for the government has to set up (yes, it is stupid and undemocratic, it has to change). During 2015 I was the national activist coordinator, trying to find and motivate our activists after a result that was not as near our expectations as we wanted. Then in May 2016, I was the first elected leader of the Swedish Pirate Party and has been ever since. Besides the political career, I have been working mostly in the IT-sector, apart for my first three years as a mechanical engineer at a small innovation firm. I’ve been a system technician, database administrator, systems engineer, software engineer, consultant in various forms and now a test and quality manager. In 2003 I was one of the founders of a local union branch of the employer at the time, due to layoffs, where I was on the board as the treasurer for a few years until I was elected chair after joining all the other local branches into one national branch for the whole company, having about 300 members. I believe we all can see that we are getting a second momentum in Europe at the moment and our core politics regarding open and free internet, personal integrity and copyright is getting more and more awareness. I think that PPI can be a positive force as an umbrella organization uniting the Pirate movement globally if it wants to and focuses. I see my self as a good mediator and I tend to be able to enthuse people around me. I see responsibility as something rewarding and constructive, even if my planning sometimes is below my own expectations. I believe in the power of Why? There is one thing though, and that is that I will naturally be deeply involved in the EU-elections in Sweden until May 26 and until then I will be mostly available for passive participation.
language(s)	English
motivation and political background	n/o
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Alternate board members (1 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Lay auditors (3 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?

Court of Arbitration (5 positions)

Name and nicks	YOUR NAME
Sponsor	WHAT MEMBER OF THE PPI SUPPORTS YOUR CANDIDATURE?
member of Pirate Party	WHAT PIRATE PARTIES ARE YOU A MEMBER OF?
qualifications	WHAT ARE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, JOB, EXPERIENCE)?
language(s)	WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK/WRITE?
motivation and political background	WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE, POLITICAL VIEWS, GOALS?
Contact data	HOW CAN WE REACH YOU FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS?