51 Spring-Summer 2017 High-Profile Contributors to the Opening Event Contributors to the conference “Antisemitism and Hate Crime in the Digital Age” at the Österreichische Kontrollbank were: Mag. Muna Duzdar, State Secretary for Diversity, Public Service and Digitalization, Mag. Michael Schwanda, Head of Sektion III, Ministry of Justice; Mag. Peter Gridling, director of the Director Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism (BVT), Ministry of Interior; Dr. Gerald Ganzger, lawyer and Managing Partner LANSKY, GANZGER + partner; Dr. Ariel Muzicant, Honorary President of the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG), Vice President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC); Oskar Deutsch, President of the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG); Irit Kohn, lawyer and President of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ); Ronit Gidron-Zemach, lawyer and CEO of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ); Dr. Doron Rabinovici, author and historian; Mag. (FH) Ingrid Brodnig, journalist and author of "Hass im Netz“ ("Hatred on the Web“); Mag. Kevin Barrett, associate at LANSKY, GANZGER + partner; Dr. Julia Andras, lawyer and Head of the Jewish Desk at LANSKY, GANZGER + partner; Yogev Karasenty, Director of the Forum against Antisemitism at the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. n About Lansky, Ganzger + partner With approximately 140 employees at five locations in Vienna, Bratislava, Belgrade, Baku and Astana, Lansky, Ganzger + partner (LGP) ranks among the largest law firms in Austria. Since the 1970s, members of the law firm have been involved in the integrative cooperation of members of different ethnic and social groups. The founders of the firm, Gabriel Lansky and Gerald Ganzger, have represented persons under the threat of persecution in exactly the same way as renowned clients from the political and economic spheres for more than three decades. Numerous successful proceedings before the EGMR complete this profile. Gabriel Lansky has been an active member of Amnesty International since 1973. Julia Andras, Attorney-at-law, heads the litigation practice at the international (Vienna-based) law firm LANSKY, GANZGER + partner. She has been with LGP since the early 2000s, including two years in Tel Aviv when she headed the Israeli branch of the Austrian Israeli Chamber of Commerce (AICC). Back in Vienna, she continued to work as a litigation lawyer in the fields of damages, labor law, general civil law, estate and inheritance law and infrastructure law. Dr. Andras stayed with the Chamber of Commerce as the current General Secretary and she heads the Israeli and the Hungarian departments of the firm. She has been a member of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ) since 2006.
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