Jelena Pia-Comella is the Managing Coordinator of the GAAMAC Support Office and brings 25 years of experience in international relations. Throughout her career, she has been true to her feminist principles and Francophone values by promoting women’s rights, strengthening women’s leadership, and supporting the work of Francophone activists in the fields of mass atrocities prevention and gender justice.  Starting her career in 1996 as a diplomat representing Andorra at the United Nations, the United States and Canada she was part of the team that created the foreign policy of her country. From January to June 2008, she consulted with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Women’s Environment and Development Organization to coordinate the Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR) and since then until July 2018, she was the Deputy Executive Director of the World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP). Jelena holds a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University, New York (USA) and is fluent in English, French, Catalan and Spanish.

Noemi Manco joined GAAMAC in July 2021. Before that, she worked for five years at TRIAL International in Geneva, first as a Communications Officer and later as Communications Coordinator. She also has work experience in campaign communications at Ordre de Malte France in Paris and digital communications at Amnesty International Switzerland. She interned at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (Netherlands) and Redress (UK). Noemi holds an LLM in International Criminal Law from the University of Kent (UK) and a Masters in International Relations from Sciences Po in Lille (France).