Standing Committees Chairs and Vice-Chairs
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Alberto Fernandez
Standing Committee Chair
Alberto Fernandez
Standing Committee Chair - General Service Questions
Alberto Fernández is an international civil servant with broad experience in project management, and conference services administration. He was been involved since 2016 in staff representation activities acting as the Vice-Chairperson and Secretary of the OPCW Staff Association covering more than 400 staff. In these functions, among other things, he actively participated in the Local Salary Survey Committee in The Hague in 2016 and monitored together with other local associations based in The Hague the issuance of survey results, he is currently also a member of the Working Group on Headquarters Agreement to review social security provisions with the host country. Since 2012, he has been working for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in a variety of functions at the General Service level and since 2017 as a Project Assistant within the Implementation Support Branch in the International Cooperation and Assistance Division. He obtained an MSc in Public Administration from the University of Leiden and also has a BSc in International Relations from the Central University of Venezuela. Alberto speaks fluent Spanish, English, and Dutch, and has a good command of French.
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Silvia Mariangeloni
Standing Committee Vice-Chair
Silvia Mariangeloni
Standing Committee Vice-Chair - General Service Questions