The Administrative Board conducts oversight over the European Shoah Legacy Institute and consists of six members who represent the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, the Terezin Initiative and the Jewish Museum in Prague.

Current Administrative Board members

Tomáš Kafka, Vice-Chair of the Administrative Board of ESLI
Born in 1965, after the studies at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University (Russian language and in History), where he obtained a PhD degree in 1989, he further worked at the Institute of Czech Literature AS CR (1989-90). Since 1991 he has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mostly at the Central Europe Departement (during 2005-8 and currently is he the director of the department). In 1997-2005 he was a Czech co-director of Czech-German Future Fond. In 2008-2014 he was a Czech diplomat in Ireland. Holder of German decoration „German Federal Order of Merit“.

Michaela Sidenberg
Ms. Sidenberg Czech-born art historian and curator. A graduate from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, she joined the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1996 as the curator of the Museum’s collection of Fine Arts. She has collaborated on many international exhibition projects covering various aspects of Jewish history and culture. An important part of her work as curator is provenance research of Nazi-looted cultural assets. From 1999 to 2000, Ms. Sidenberg served as a member of the expert commission established by the Czech government to research and evaluate confiscated Jewish-owned works of art in Czech public collections. She co-authored the first in-depth study describing the confiscation mechanisms used in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the fate of looted art in Czechoslovakia after 1945.

David Červenka
Mr Červenka is currently the Acting Director of the Human Rights and Transition Policy Department at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Having completed various internships in the private sector as well as in international organizations, he joined the Ministry in 2001, where he held numerous positions, including the Deputy European Correspondent, Head of Common Foreign and Security Policy Unit at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union, Deputy Director of the United Nations Department, Member of the Minister’s Private Office and lately Deputy Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the UN in New York. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Prague School of Economics and a postgraduate Master of Advanced International Studies Degree from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.

Tibor Schalev - Schlosser
Mr. Shalev-Schlosser was born in Romania in 1961 and moved to Israel that same year. He graduated in Political Science at the University of Haifa, in Philosophy (with Thesis) at Hebrew University and he is a PhD Candidate at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He joined the Israeli diplomatic service in 1989 and had served in Berlin, in Rome in Geneva and recently as Consul General in Munich. Currently, he is the Special Envoy for Holocaust related Issues and the Restitution of Holocaust Era Assets. Mr. Shalev-Schlosser is married with six children.

Elizabeth Nakian

Elizabeth Nakian is the deputy in the Office of Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State since 2005. She develops U.S. policy toward the rightful return of Holocaust-era assets, supports Holocaust education and remembrance, and facilitates U.S. initiatives in fostering a Europe committed to rule of law and democratic values. She received her B.A. from Skidmore College and a M.A. in International Economics and European Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to her current position, she served in other State Department offices, including the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, the United States Mission to the UN, the American Embassy, Ankara, Turkey, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Pavel Štingl