About NPWJ

Martin Schulthes coordinates NPWJ Special Programs. This means he manages activities and initiatives that go beyond NPWJ's program structure. From 2006 to 2007 he has coordinated the Iraq project, which fits within the policy framework of the MENA Democracy program, but is operationally distinct. Similarly, he has been responsible for the 2005-2006 Mali project for the FGM program and for the operational management of the 2004 Sana'a Conference. Before joining NPWJ in 2004, Martin worked as a Parliamentary Staffer at the European Parliament, where he has made it his business to get in trouble supporting democracy activists around the world. He joined the European Parliament in 2000, working with MEP Olivier Dupuis on the Foreign Affairs Committee: Martin's first arrest was in Vietnam in 2002, where he was interrogated and expelled for subversive democracy advocacy; he narrowly escaped beating and arrest in Laos in 2003 (the MEP he was with, Olivier Dupuis and other four TRP activists succeeded in getting arrested and were detained for many weeks); he did not get shot during the "observe the observers" project in Cambodia in 2003, nor when he attempted to establish a football tournament between fighting factions in Sierra Leone in 2003. Martin is a certfied football coach and has coached teams in Rome and Brussels. He has a Laurea in Literature from the University of Roma "La Sapienza" and a Deug in Economy from the University of Paris X. He holds a number of different passports, all of them quite battered.