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Lobbying Authors and Trainers
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Witold Michalek, Unilob s.c.
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Lead Author |
Poland |
 Witold
is an economist and is the former deputy-chairman of the Business
Centre Club, the largest employer organization in Poland.
He is an expert on strategic planning, organization,
monitoring, and advocacy on private sector and government economic
policy.
He has extensive practical experience in planning,
organizing and implementing advocacy and lobbying campaigns.
He’s also an expert in assessing the influence
of support programs for SME development. |
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Danko Cosic, ProConcept
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Serbia |
 Director
of ProConcept, a lawyer, born, educated and living in Belgrade.
Co-founder of the Center for Free Elections and
Democracy – CeSID
After a year in Moldova, returned to Belgrade in
2005 to set up ProConcept, providing consulting services on effective
lobbying, election monitoring, organizational development assistance
and mountain rescue |
| Tihomir Knežicek, Freelance
Trainer/Consultant
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Bosnia-
Herzegovina |
 Tihomir
holds a doctorate degree in mining engineering from the University
of Tuzla, B&H.
Since 1986 is professor and researcher at the University
of Tuzla
Since 1996 has worked for international and local
NGOs as trainer of institutional development at USAID DemNet and
UNDP SUTRA.
Since 2004 serves as President of the Trainers’
Network Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Carried out training and ToT for more than 350
NGOs, government bodies and businesses, evaluated 6 EC funded projects.
Published 4 textbooks and produced more than 45 training and associated
materials.
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| Marija Risteska, CRPM
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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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| Goran Djurovic, CRNVO
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Montenegro |
 Goran
graduated from the Faculty of Law Podgorica, and is now a postgraduate
student at the Faculty of Economics.
At CRNVO he is responsible for education, serving
as a trainer and consultant for NGOs in the fields of fundraising,
organisational management, strategic planning, advocacy and civic
education. To date he has contributed to over 150 seminars/trainings.
At CRNVO he also fosters cooperation between local governments and
NGOs.
He has contributed to numerous projects concerning
Montenegrin civil society development, having coordinated and conducted
research, hosted lectures, participated in debates and published
related to NGO and government cooperation, anticorruption, cross
border cooperation, democracy and human rights. |
| Milan Ristic, Education
for Organizations in Civil Sector
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Croatia |
 Milan
has worked for the last ten years as a trainer/consultant specialised
in the field of CSO management, public/policy advocacy, lobbying
and project management in both Croatia and abroad
He has a BA degree as a special education teacher
and has completed several Training of Trainer programs with Heartland
International in Chicago
He is president of “Education for Organizations
in Civil Sector” (EOS) and at the same time serves as a consultant
and project manager for the Croatian Association of the Deaf and
Hard-of-Hearing
Milan has authored numerous manuals and training
materials and is fluent in English, speaks Spanish and is competent
in sign language.
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| Romeo Hanxhari, University
of Tirana, Albania
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Albania |
 Romeo
teaches “Environmental Policies” at the University of
Tirana, where he has been working since 1991. At the same time he
serves as advisor in environment and energy efficiency to the General
Director of Albania’s energy enterprise.
In 1998 he founded the NGO: “For New Environmental
Policies,” and currently serves as its President. The NGO
has run many different environmental lobbying campaigns and projects,
and together with other NGOs founded “The Albanian Network
for Sustainable Development” and “Consortium for the
Promotion of Environment-friendly Technologies”.
Romeo holds a PhD in “Environment and Territorial
Resources Management”, awarded by the University of Lecce
(Italy), and a Master in Mediterranean Geosystems from the University
of Aix-en-Provence (France).
Romeo’s pet interest is languages –
he speaks French, Italian, and English, and a little Greek.
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| Kushtrim Islami, Consultant
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Kosovo |
 Kushtrim
works as a freelance trainer/consultant for NGOs and governmental
institutions in the fields of advocacy and lobbying, proposal writting,
project cycle management, marketing and public relations, besides
organisational management and strategic planning.
He holds a masters degree in Knowledge Management
from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen UK.
He formerly worked as a coordinator at the Ministry
of Culture, Youth Sports and Non-residential Affairs and also worked
as a trainer/consultant under projects funded by USAID and other
international foundations.
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