Dan Christian Ghattas

Dan Christian Ghattas is an intersex activist, university lecturer and author who co-founded OII Europe in 2012 and is now executive director.

Career

In 2018, Ghattas was appointed as the first executive director of OII Europe. He is formerly a university lecturer and cultural scientist. and later executive director, speaking at events across Europe including the launch of a Council of Europe issue paper on "Human rights and intersex people" in Montenegro. Ghattas is also a bridge builder advisor to the Disability Rights Fund.

Works

Ghattas has written or co-edited multiple books. He authored Human Rights between the Sexes or Menschenrechte zwischen den Geschlechtern, published in English and German in 2013 by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The report is believed to be the first comparative international analysis of the human rights of intersex people; it found that intersex people are discriminated against worldwide. Earlier, in 2012, he co-authored a first study into the lives of trans people in Germany, entitled Studie zur Lebenssituation von Transsexuellen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Selected bibliography

Books and book chapters

Editorials