text: Where on earth did you find that list of "chairs"?   Seems like a fake news source.   
  
  Its current chairperson --  Anastasia Crickley -- is an Irish woman who has spent much of her life defending the rights of the Roma/ “gypsies”/ Travellers, and women.  
  Nicolás Marugán, Committee Expert and Country Rapporteur for Canada, is from Spain. 
  
  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its State parties. 
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/