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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 |
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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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