Stanislav Daniel is a Roma rights activist, advocate, researcher and trainer from Slovakia. Being member of the community himself, his knowledge combines first-hand experience with theoretical knowledge he gained through both formal and informal education. He currently works as a freelancer for number of organizations, including the government. His previous work experience includes the Roma Education Fund, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the OSCE, European Roma Rights Centre and many more. His researching activities focus primarily on education, but also include housing, state response to racially motivated violence and freedom of movement. He currently focuses on Roma programmes at the Open Society Foundation in Bratislava.