The members of CDRSEE staff are:
 | Nenad Sebek
Nenad Sebek (UK), Executive Director for the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, has worked as a journalist for twenty-six years.
Before joining the CDRSEE early 2002, he spent two years as Moscow Correspondent for "The World" (a co-production of the BBC World Service, Public Radio International and WGBH in Boston).
He covered the Balkans through the tumultuous nineteen nineties, working first for the BBC and then "The World". Started his journalistic career in Radio Belgrade and joined the BBC World Service in 1986. |
 | Corinna Noack-Aetopulos (corinna@cdsee.org)
Corinna is the Director of Programmes at the CDRSEE and oversees all of the Center’s project work. She joined in the CDRSEE in February 2004 as a Project Coordinator, and in this capacity, managed a number of the Center’s major projects. In addition to her supervisory and managerial roles as Director of Programmes, she also directly coordinates some of the Center’s EC funded projects.
She studied European Business Administration in Berlin and Cambridge and graduated with honours in 1995. The subject of her dissertation was Cross-Cultural Management in International Joint-Ventures. She has several years of professional experience in business and management. Before she joined the CDRSEE she worked for an international retailer as Project Manager and Controller for six years.
She is a native German speaker, fluent in English and Greek and has basic knowledge of French. |
 | Zvezdana Kovac (zvezdana@cdsee.org)
Before joining the CDRSEE, Zvezdana Kovac worked as a journalist for more than 20 years. She spent 15 years as a journalist and editor in RTV Montenegro and another 5 years as a journalist and editor in chief at the YUinfo TV (Yugoslav television). For several months she worked in TV Budva in an effort to set up a unique Mediterranean TV. Since it turned out to be impossible to make a truly independent media out of it, she left Budva and journalism as well.
Zvezdana graduated from the Faculty for Serbo-Croatian language and Yugoslav literature at the University of Montenegro, but her mother tongue is Montenegrin, thanks to which she also perfectly speaks Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian in addition to English and Greek. |
 | Antonis Hadjiyannakis (antonis@cdsee.org)
Antonis completed his BA in Business Administration in Kavala, Greece and his MSc in International Conflict at Kingston University, England. During his studies he did research on minorities in the Balkans. After completing his studies he worked for the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe in Thessaloniki and was an electoral observer with the OSCE travelling throughout the Balkans. Before resuming his duties at the CDRSEE in 2011, he was Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Athens. Antonis is fluent in Greek and English, has a good command of German and basic knowledge of French. |
 | Jennifer Antoniadis (jennifer@cdsee.org)
Jennifer joined the CDRSEE staff in July 2008, following a 2 month internship. She was born in France, where she received a BA in 2007 in Foreign Languages Applied to The Social Sciences from Stendhal University in Grenoble. She also took part in an exchange programme which allowed her to specialise her BA in Thessaloniki in 2007-2008.
Before completing her studies, she had worked a fair number of part-time jobs, in a variety of different sectors.
Born in France from a Canadian mother and Greek father, Jennifer is a native French and English speaker, and has basic notions of Greek. In addition to this, as a result of her studies, she has an excellent understanding of Spanish. |
 | Maria Tzelepoglou (mtzel@CDSEE.org)
Maria Tzelepoglou has been working at the Center for Democracy since January 2004. She is the Financial Officer of the organisation.
She received her BA in Accounting and Finance from Kingston University at ICBS / TBS in the year 2003 with distinction. Her dissertation topic was “Evaluating the Level of Corporate Governance of the companies listed in the A.S.E. (Athens Stock Exchange). An empirical study concerning Northern Greece”. She was awarded full scholarship in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of study, ranking 1st amongst all students.
She has engaged in a variety of part time jobs before the completion of her studies both in Greece and abroad, she has, also, attended many business related seminars. She was born in Greece and she speaks English fluently. |
External consultants
The CDRSEE adheres to the most rigorgous standards of financial and administrative accountability and transparency.
To carry out its work, the CDRSEE receives donations from private institutions as well as public funds, and believes that responsible spending is of paramount importance, likewise responsible and accurate financial reporting.
In order to ensure that all of the financial transactions of the organisation are independently verified as meeting the principles of accounting and legal administration, the CDRSEE has two additional layers of independent auditing.
External Auditor: CONSTANTINOS. G. HADZAGAS
Mr. Hadzagas is a member of
- the Greek Institute of Internal Auditors in Athens, and
- the American Institute of Internal Auditors in Florida, USA.
Since 2000, he is also an internal auditor of GOLD Portfolio Investment AE.and has been a manager at ccompanies, such as Chase Manhattan Bank, Brown Boveri (Commercial Co.), Tekkosha Hellas (Industrial Co.) and Chemical Industries (Industrial Co.) in Thessaloniki and Athens, Greece:
He is a member of the Greek Economics Chamber and had held memberships in the Thessaloniki’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and in the Greek-American Chamber of Commerce. He has been a lecturer of accounting and finance at ICBS College since 1997.
He has published numerous articles and has participated in presentations both in Greece and abroad on accounting, financial, and economic matters. He speaks fluent Greek and English, is proficient in French, and has general knowledge of German.
Internal Auditor: ANTONIOS KRANTOS
Mr Krantos is a member of The Chamber of Greek Economists, the Institute of Economical Administration, and the Greek Management Association. He is also a lecturer in Accounting and Finance at ICBS Kingston University.
He has worked both in Greece and abroad as an auditor for large multi-national companies, as well as significant expertise as a business and financial analyst for regional affiliates of a multi-national corporation.
With a range and depth of accounting and auditing experience, Mr Krantos oversees the internal auditing of the CDRSEE.
He has published a book The Incentive Laws for Investments and the effect on the Greek economy, Highest School of Industrial Studies, and contributes to journals, such as Ellinikos Vorras: Petroleum Crisis Effects on the Greek and International Economy.
Current Interns:
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