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Emilia Saiz Carrancedo is Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments. She has worked with the international movement of local and regional governments in different capacities since 1998, focusing on capacity building, women's participation in local decision-making, and enhancing…

Anna Rurka is President of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe. Rurka is also a Senior Lecturer at the University Paris Nanterre, and Vice President of the European Committee for Home-based Priority Action for the Child and…

Michalis Persianis is Corporate Affairs Director at Bank of Cyprus. Previously he worked as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2011 to 2014, and as Head Editor for Economy and Finance at Kathimerini newspaper (Cyprus…

Tina Divjak is the head of advocacy at CNVOS, a national CSO umbrella network in Slovenia. She has been working on different issues of NGO development since 2003. She has authored and co-authored several analyses, studies and manuals focusing on…

Maria Golubeva is a member of the Latvian Parliament for the liberal party Development/ For! She was previously Development Director of the think-tank PROVIDUS, and a senior consultant with ICF in Brussels, leading research projects on European education and humanitarian…

George Jiglau is a researcher and lecturer in Political Science at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and president of the think tank Center for the Study of DemocracyTwitter: @georgejiglau Facebook: www.facebook.com/georgejiglau

Ingrida Kalinauskienė is currently Chief Operations Officer at Transparency International Lithuania and leads TI Lithuania's Transparency School. Previously, Ingrida interned at a non-governmental organization in São Paulo, Brazil, and has project management experience in the private sector in Lithuania.Twitter of…

Elina Kalkku is Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, responsible for development policy, Africa and Middle East. She is a career diplomat and joined the Ministry in 1983. Her responsibilities have included issues related to…

Leon Krier is an architect, urban planner and pioneering architectural theorist in promoting the technological, ecological and social rationality and modernity of traditional urbanism and architecture; he is considered the “Godfather” of the “New Urbanism” movement.

Michael O'Flaherty is Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and adjunct Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Previously he served as Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and as a member…