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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 Kneicek, 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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| 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.
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