Board of Directors
The PASOS Board of Directors is the decision-making body of the Association. Consisting of a minimum of five and a maximum of seven members, Board members are elected by the PASOS General Assembly for a two-year term.
Dr. Agnieszka Łada
Chair
Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland
ul. Szpitalna 5 lok. 22
00-031 Warsaw
Poland
Tel: +(48 22)-556 42 60
http://www.isp.org.pl
Agnieszka Łada is Head of the European Programme/Researcher at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Poland. Her research expertise covers EU institutions, preparations for the Polish EU Presidency in 2011, European and Polish foreign policy, the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, Polish-German relations, and European civil society. Łada is a member of the Group of Civil Advisers of the Head of the Council for Foreign Affairs in the Polish Parliament, of Team Europe (a group of experts advising the Representation of the European Commission in Poland), and the Copernicus Group, a group of experts on Polish-German relations. She is also IPAʼs liason officer in the European Policy Institutes Network, and the Active Citizenship Group liaising with the European Commission.
David Král
Deputy Chair
EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Prague, Czech Republic
Rytířská 31
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 221 610 210
http://www.europeum.org
David Král graduated from the Law Faculty at Charles University. He is Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy. He lectures at the University of Public Administration and International Relations in Prague, and previously lectured at Charles University – Faculty of Social Sciences. He is a certified trainer in EU modules for public administration. During the work of the Convention on the Future of Europe and the Intergovernmental Conference 2003/2004 he was a member of advisory groups of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister. His main areas of expertise in EUROPEUM include the Lisbon Treaty, EU enlargement, EU external relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy, and EU Freedom, Security and Justice policy. He and his colleagues at EUROPEUM were invited by the Czech government to elaborate an analysis of the first draft priorities of the Czech EU Presidency, and David Král subsequently participated in the advisory working group on foreign policy reporting to the Czech Republic’s Deputy Premier for European Affairs, Alexandr Vondra. The working group met on a regular basis in the run-up to the Czech EU Presidency.
Tevan Poghosyan
International Center for Human Development, Yerevan, Armenia
19 Sayat Nova Ave.
0001 Yerevan
Armenia
Tel: +374 10 582638
http://www.ichd.org
Poghosyan has been Executive Director of the ICHD since its was founded in 1999. In 2001, he became the executive of the Armenian Atlantic Association. In 2002, he started lecturing on Conflict Management and Leadership at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. From 1997 to 1999, he served as NKR Public Affairs Office Director in the United States. From 1996 to 1997 he worked at the Central Bank of Armenia in various departments. He graduated from the Political Science Department of the American University of Armenia in 1996 and from the Computer Science Department of Yerevan State Engineering University in 1994.
Marija Risteska
Center for Research and Policy Making, Skopje, Macedonia
St. Cico Popovic 6-2/9
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Tel: +389 2 3109 932
http://www.crpm.org.mk
Ms. Marija Risteska holds a PhD in Political Science from Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and Master of Arts in European Public Administration and Public Policy from Katholieke Universitait Leuven. Besides numerous policy studies on European integration of Macedonia, public policy development, good governance, health, gender, and migration, Marija has co-edited the book ‘European Law for SMEs’. She has 10 years of consulting experience with the EU and all UN agencies. She managed a program in NDI, and the education portfolio of the World Bank in Macedonia. Risteska is the founder of the Center for Research and Policy Making.
Linda Austere
Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS, Riga, Latvia (PROVIDUS)
Alberta 13, 6th floor
LV-1010 Riga
Latvia
http://www.providus.lv
Linda Austere is a policy researcher in the Centre for Pubic Policy PROVIDUS, based in Riga, Latvia. Her research interests include public sector information, policy process and approaches to policy making as well as performance planning and evaluation practices in the public sector. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia (Dipl. Iur., 2006) and Central European Universityobtaining MA in Public Policy (2007) with a special focus on media, communications and telecommunications (Magyar Telecom Scholar). In addition to her work in non-governmental organizations – Transparency International – Latvia and PROVIDUS -Linda has served as the advisor to the Minister Defense of the Republic of Latvia focusing on legal issues, governance institutional reform (2009-2010) and been advisor to the acting Minister of Justice (2010). Along with her daily research and policy/advocacy work, Linda has gladly applied her theoretical knowledge as consultant or expert for both non governmental and international organizations and well as governments in Latvia as well as abroad. She speaks fluent Latvian, Russian and English.
Samuel Greene
117418, Moscow
Samuel Greene is a visiting professor of political science and founding director of the Center for the Study of New Media and Society at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. Prior to joining the School in June 2011, he worked for six years at the Carnegie Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, including as deputy director. An expert in state-society relations, Russian politics and the link between Russian domestic and foreign policy, with a PhD from the London School of Economics & Political Science, he has written extensively in policy and academic formats and is a frequent commentator in Russian, European and American media, including CNN, BBC, RFE/RL, the AP and others. He speaks fluent English and Russian.
Vugar Bayramov
Center for Economic and Social Development, Baku, Azerbaijan (CESD)
Shirin Mirzeyev 76 “a”/ 33
1002 Baku
Azerbaijan
Tel: +99412 5970691/ 4954248
http://www.cesd.az
Vugar Bayramov is the Chairman of the Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD). He was a post-doctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, United States, in 2003/2004. He has served as workshop chairman or presenter in many international events and teaches Economics/Finance courses at the Azerbaijan State Economic University. Bayramov has conducted various research projects on economics in the areas of local government, municipality development, and state budget transparency. He is the author of “Oil Revenues Usage Strategy in Azerbaijan”. Bayramov is Co-coordinator of the 2nd Working Group at the EU Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. He is a member of the Steering Committee of EU Eastern Partnership Program. In 2010, Bayramov was named one of the most 500 influential Muslims in the world by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC) in Jordan.
