| CORRADO CLINI
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Director General
Department for Environmental Research and Development
Ministry for the Environment and Territory
Italy
 Corrado Clini is the director general of the Ministry for the Environment
of Italy, responsible for international and global issues, climate change,
ozone layer protection, sustainable development, international cooperation
for the protection of the global environment, and European environmental
regulations. He is also a professor of ecology at the University of Parma.
Corrado Clini was born in 1947. After receiving his doctorate
in occupational health, hygiene and public health, he went on to direct
the Department of Environmental Protection and Industrial Medicine of
Venice-Porto Marghera in the 1980s, which is the most important industrial
area in Italy due to its high density of chemical plants, refineries and
power plants. As director general of the Ministry for the Environment
in the 1990s he was responsible for elaborating the adoption of regulations
on air and noise pollution, industrial safety, and environmental standards
for the industrial and transportation sectors.
Clini led the Italian team of experts at the Rio Conference
on Environment and Development in 1992, and at the Kyoto Conference on
Climate Change in 1997.
In 2000-01 he co-chaired the G8 Task Force on Renewable
Energies, and is currently co-chairing the European Environmental and
Health Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
MARTA
SZIGETI BONIFERT
Executive
Director
Born in London to Hungarian parents, Marta Szigeti Bonifert travelled and studied in China, Ghana, Japan, Kuwait, Sweden, USA. She has spent 12 years working for the environment in various capacities at organisations such as the Environment Institute and the Environment and Water Ministry in Hungary. Before joining the REC, she spent 10 years in business working for multinational companies in various senior roles ranging from head of human resources to commercial director for the CEE region at companies such as UB/Gyori Keksz, Vivendi Telecom Hungary and the ING Group in Hungary.
Szigeti Bonifert earned her masters of business administration from the Katz Graduate School of Business from the University of Pittsburgh with a focus on strategy and human resources. She has a degree in management from the International Management Center of Central European University and has a bachelor of science in psychology/biology from the University of Kuwait.
Szigeti Bonifert is a member of the Environmental Management
and Law Association (EMLA) and was its first managing director. She is
a founder and board member of the CEE Network for Gender Issues, vice-president
of the Hungarian Foundation for Real Equal Opportunities and Hungarian
civil focal point for the Gender Task Force of the Stability Pact. She
is board member of the Europorosperitas 2010 Foundation; advisory of Agroinnova/Torino
University Scientific Committee; heads the environmental committee of
the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum (HBLF) and member of EBRD’s
environmental advisory council (ENVAC.) She became executive director
of the REC in May of 2003.
OREOLA IVANOVA
Deputy Executive
Strategy and Development
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Oreola Ivanova has a degree in chemical engineering
from the Technical Institute for Chemical Engineering in Sofia. After
two years in the Research Institute of the Pharmaceutical Industry she
began her career in Bulgaria’s Ministry of Environment. She spent
three years in Safi, Morocco as deputy head of the Section on Chemical
Technology (Institute for Applied Technology). She was responsible for
courses on organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry,
and chemical technology and processes.
Between 1988 and 1996 Ivanova worked in international
cooperation for the Ministry of Environment in several positions, including
as head of the Bureau for Preparation in the 1995 Sofia ministerial conference
Environment for Europe.
Ivanova joined the REC in 1996 as head of the Office
of the Executive Director. From 1997 she acted as senior advisor in governmental
affairs. In 2000 she was appointed head of the Environmental Policy Programme,
working on strategic guidance and management of the programme to implement
the international mandates given to the REC as Secretariat of the Task
Force for Implementation of the Environmental Action Programme for Central
and Eastern Europe (EAP Task Force), Secretariat of the Task Force for
Implementation of the Regional Environmental Reconstruction Programme
for South Eastern Europe (REReP Task Force), as well as Secretariat of
the Sofia Initiatives on Economic Instruments, Environmental Impact Assessment
and Biodiversity.
In September 2003 she was appointed deputy executive
director responsible for strategy and development.
ZOLTAN MADARAS
Deputy Executive Director
Finance and Administration
Zoltan Madaras was born in Medias, Romania. He started
his career as a mechanical engineer and designer, and spent several years
with different manufacturing companies in Hungary. He joined the Finance
Department of the REC in 1995 as bookkeeper. After several years of service,
he became unit head, department head and later the financial manager.
He has experience in setting up and operating financial management systems
for an international organisation, including comprehensive management
information systems.
Madaras has degrees in mechanical engineering (College
of Technical Sciences, Tg-Mures, Romania), economics, and finance and
accounting (College of Finance and Accountancy, Budapest, Hungary). He
is currently studying for his master’s degree in business administration.
In September 2003 Madaras was appointed deputy executive
director responsible for finance, administration and conference services.
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