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Meet the Master Class Module Authors and Trainers


 

Lobbying Authors and Trainers

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.

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.

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)

 

Milan Ristic, Education for Organizations in Civil Sector, Croatia

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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.

 

 

* A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline (Wikipedia)

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