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Legal Recourse/Advocacy
Authors and Trainers
| Stephen Stec, Regional Environmental
Center
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Lead Author |
Hungary |
 American,
Steve is Head of the REC’s Environmental Law Program as well
as Senior Legal Specialist. Within this capacity he has been involved
in developing Governance Principles for Investment in Hazardous
Activities; producing a “Handbook on Access to Justice under
the Aarhus Convention”; and the establishment of Environmental
Legal Advocacy/Advisory Centers in SE Europe;
He graduated (cum laude) in 1986 from the University
of Maryland School of Law as Juris Doctor, and prior to that with
a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Behavioral Sciences & Humanities
from the Johns Hopkins University
Prior to his arrival in Hungary in 1990 he worked
for private law firms (Weinberg and Green, and Piper and Marbury)
as a legal associate.
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| Sreten Djordjevic, Serbia
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Serbia |
 Sreten
Djordjevic is a practising Attorney at Law based in Valjevo
Specialisation includes environmental law, nature
protection, EIA and IPPC procedures, public participation in decision
making, access to information, and legislative analysis etc.
BA from the University of Belgrade and is also
the President of the Ecological Society “Gradac” in
Valjevo, and serves as Director of the "Environmental Legal
Advocacy and Advisory Center."
10 years experience of working in national environmental
NGOs.
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| Mladen Ivanovic, Lawyer,
Croatia
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Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Croatia |
 A
lawyer with 20 years experience (within civil service, international
development organizations, NGOs, consultancy and attorney at law)
Currently senior legal adviser at National Association
of Local Authorities
Previously worked as a legal consultant for WYG
International on an EU funded project in Croatia and as a programme
officer for UNDP Croatia
Author of numerous publications and articles concerning
different aspects of civil society development
Croatian citizen, speaks fluent English and basic
Spanish
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| Marija Risteska, CRPM, Macedonia
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FYR Macedonia |
 Marija
Risteska is a co-founder of CRPM- Centre for Research and Policy
Making, a Skopje-based think-tank working on evidence based policy
making.
At CRPM she currently works as senior analyst
and leads the human development portfolio, as well as its capacity
building programme for civil servants and CSOs.
She is lawyer and holds a Master in European Public
Administration and Public Policy.
Marija has eight years of development experience
including: policy analysis, legislative drafting, and public sector
consulting. She worked in various capacities for all international
organizations represented in Macedonia (from EAR, to UNIFEM, UNDP,
WB, NDI and IOM).
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| Milena Deletic, MANS,
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Montenegro |
 Milena
has been with MANS’ since Dec. 2005, coordinating their program
for freedom of information, writes appeals to responsible institutions
and represents MANS at the administrative court.
She is experienced in training public officers
in freedom of information legislation
She has compiled several publications on MANS’
experiences in the area of accessing information, including on the
environment.
Milena also writes appeals to the constitutional
court, relevant to the environment, and has participated in establishing
the first criminal case related to access to information on environmental
pollution.
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| Visar Morina, University
of Prishtina
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Kosovo |
 With
a doctorate degree in Law from the University of Linz, Visar currently
serves as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law within the University
of Prishtina.
His past experience in the field of law includes
working for OSCE, the Kosovo Law Centre, the Ministry of Environment
and Spatial Planning, the Ministry of Trade and the European’s
Union Pillar IV.
Visa currently serves as Advisor to the Minister
of Public Services.
He is author of a handbook on the Convention on
Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and
Access to Justice in Environmental Matters - the Århus Convention.
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| Enio Haxhimihali, Albanian
Lawyers for Environment Protection
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Albania |
 Since
1998, Enio has served as the chairman of the Albanian Lawyers for
Environment Protection, the first Albanian NGO focused on legal
ussues for environmental protection, and since 1993 has worked with
environmental civil society, having founded the first Albanian Youth
NGO for environmental protection in 1993.
He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental
Law from the Pantheon Sorbonne University in France.
Enio has worked as an environmental legal consultant
in several projects supported by international organizations (i.e.
WB, UNDP, REC, MKOE), and private companies in Albania.
He has also served in different senior positions
within public administration (i.e. as a judge, legal expert at the
Ministry of Justice, legal adviser of various Ministers, as well
as served as a Minister’s Head of Cabinet).
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