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   From 2006 to 2008

Elsa Ballauri
John Brademas
Erhard Busek
Costa Carras
Nikos Efthymiadis
Smaranda Enache
Selcuk Erez
Zdravko Grebo
Vlasta Jalusic
Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser
Matthew Nimetz
Saso Ordanoski
Antoinette Primatarova
Zarko Puhovski
Gazmend Pula
Dusan Reljic
Pieter Stek
Neslihan Tombul
Rigas Tzelepoglou
Spiros Voyadzis

 
Former Members

Pekin Baran
George David

Osman Kavala
Albert Koenders
Ivan Krastev
Fatos Lubonja
Richard Schifter
Veton Surroi



News

04 March 2010: Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region. The European Fund for the Balkans, in cooperation with the Open Society Institute Think Tank Fund, is launching a call for applications for the Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region. Click here to learn more! 

06-07 February 2010 – Upskilling Trainer of Trainer Workshop, Pristina: CDRSEE spent the weekend in Pristina and meeting up with old friends – an upskilling workshop was completed for teachers who were trained as trainers of their peers in June 2008. 10 teacher-trainers were invited back to improve their training skills, so that they could train their peers on multi-perspective and participative methodology to history teaching. The training was lead by Dr Bozo Repe and Dr Inez Sutton. Dr Sutton, in collaboration with her daughter Ruth Sutton (former member of the CDRSEE team) wrote a Users Guide to utilising such approaches in the classroom. This Users Guide was launched at this workshop. The 10 teacher trainers trained, will now lead 3 local workshops, and 10 in-school trainings, after which it is expected that 225 teachers will have been trained. For further information on the Joint History Project, please click here!

30 January 2010 - Kick off meeting in Serbia: The CDRSEE met with donors, stakeholders and project partners in Serbia to plan the implementation of the JHP country plan for Serbia in 2010.  The team is composed of the Association for Social History, key coordinator Dubravka Stojanovic, PR coordinator Biljana Stupar and CDRSEE staff. Milestones in 2010 will be a second edition of the successful... read more here!

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The Board of Directors

The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the CDRSEE took place on December 6th, 2007.  Among the Board’s usual business, plans for the 10th Anniversary of the Center and the selection of new officers of the Board were discussed.

With one year of service as the Chair, (having been unanimously voted into the position at the previous meeting in 2006) Dr Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, oversaw the proceedings.  These included two changes to the Officers of the Board: namely the voting in of Rigas Tzelepoglou (former Deputy Treasurer and Acting Treasurer) to the post of Treasurer and Costa Carras (current Rapporteur) to the post of Deputy Secretary, retaining his role as Rapporteur.   

The Board of Directors December, 2007
L-R:  Dr Selcuk Erez, Dr Dusan Reljic, Pieter Stek, Nikos Efthymiadis, Nenad Sebek (foreground)  Gazmend Pula (background) Dr Erhard Busek (centre), Costas Carras (back row) Smaranda Enache (front)  Antoinette Primatarova (middle row), Rigas Tzelepoglou (back row) Corinna Noack-Aetopulos, Professor Zarko Puhovski.
(absent Board Members:  Matthew Nimetz, John Brademas, Saso Ordanoski.

As of December 2007, the Center's Board of Directors is composed of 14 men and women from Southeast Europe, North America and Western Europe who support the goals of the Center.  The Board is assisted by an 8 member Advisory Council of former Board Members.

Chair:  Dr Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe

Hon. Matthew Nimetz, a New York lawyer and partner of an investment firm who is also Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, chaired the Center's Board from the founding of the organisation until 31 December 2001 and continues to be a Board Member.

Vice Chairs of the Board are Smaranda Enache (Targu Mures, Romania),Co-Chair of Linga Pro Europa a Romanian NGO; and Nikos Efthymiadis, a Thessaloniki businessman who also serves as Chair of the Board of the Association for Democracy in the Balkans and theCo-Chair of the Business Advisory Council of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI). The Treasurer and previous Deputy Treasurer is Rigas Tzelepoglou, Professor of Business and President of the International Center for Business Studies (ICBS) in Thessaloniki. The Secretary is Dr. Selcuk Erez, a Medical Doctor, Professor and journalist in Istanbul and the Deputy Secretary is Costa Carras.

The two Rapporteurs of the Board of the Center for Democracy are John Brademas, a long-time Member of the U.S. Congress, President Emeritus of New York University and former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy; and Costa Carras, the Greek Coordinator of the Greek-Turkish Forum.

Ambassador Richard Shifter, former Chair of the Board retired from his position after a long and distinguished service from 2002 to 2006.  He remains an active member of the Advisory Council.

Spiros Voyadzis, Former Director of the World Bank Group Office in Brussels and current President of Partnerships for Finance and Development, served as the Treasurer until may 2007, and is currently a member of the Advisory Council.

The other Members of the Board are:

  • Saso Ordanoski, Editor, "Forum" magazine (Skopje)
  • Antoinette Primatarova, Programme Director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies (Sofia)
  • Zarko Puhovski, Former Executive Director, Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and Professor of Philosophy (Zagreb)
  • Gazmend Pula, Founder and Director of the Kosovo Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (Pristina)
  • Dusan Reljic, Senior Researcher, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Berlin)
  • Pieter Stek, former Executive Director of the World Bank Group (Amsterdam)

Members of the Advisory Council are:

  • Elsa Ballauri, Executive Director of the Albanian Human Rights Group (Tirana)
  • Pekin Baran, Businessman (Istanbul)
  • Tony Baynes, Businessman (Athens)
  • Zdravko Grebo, University Professor (Sarajevo)
  • Vlasta Jalusic, Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Peace Institute (Ljubljana)
  • Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser, Head of Centennial Group’s Social and Environmental Practice (Berlin)
  • Richard Schifter, former Chair of the Board and retired Ambassador (Washington DC)
  • Neslihan Tombul, Managing Director and Senior Representative of the Bank of New York (Istanbul)
  • Spiros Voyadzis (Paris) Former Director of the World Bank Group Office in Brussels and current President of Partnerships for Finance and Development (Paris)
 
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