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Members of the Board
   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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Members of the Board of Directors

Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser

Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser is head of Centennial Group's Social and Environmental practice. She is widely known for her work on social and environmental policy and programs on all major regions of the world. Dr. Koch-Weser is also founder and President of Earth3000, a non-profit organisation defending environmental rights of future generations. Earth3000 promotes understanding, commitment, programs and innovations for salvaging the earth's basic assets for the survival of human kind - climate, biological species, water, top soil, and ocean resources. Earth3000 promotes environmental security and long term systemic improvements in local, national and global environmental governance. Convinced that the next decades are of crucial importance for all future, Earth3000 seeks forceful action to reverse present trends of loss and extinction.

Dr. Koch-Weser's field experience in international development and environment spans the regions of South Asia, East Asia & Pacific, Latin America & the Caribbean, West & East Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe & countries of the Former Soviet Union.

Prior to founding Earth3000, Dr. Koch-Weser was Director General of IUCN -The World Conservation Union. Founded in 1948, IUCN -The World Conservation Union is the world's largest umbrella organisation of environmental institutions, bringing together a unique membership of Governments and Government Agencies, and hundreds of civil society organisations.

From 1980-1998 Dr. Koch-Weser worked at the World Bank, where she was closely associated with the build-up of environmental and social programs and policies. In her most recent assignment she was Director for Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development for the Latin America & Caribbean Region. Her previous World Bank assignments included Chief of the Asia Environment and Natural Resources Management Division (and simultaneous management of the World Bank's first Alternative Energy Unit), and Chief of the Environmental Assessments & Programs Division of the Environment Department. In earlier years she held positions as Project Officer, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, and Sociologist, with responsibilities for environment, agriculture and rural development programs, as well as environmental and social safeguards associated with energy, infrastructure, and mining projects.

During the early stages of her career, Dr. Koch-Weser taught anthropology and Latin American Studies at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Dr. Koch-Weser is an anthropologist. She holds a Ph.D. from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne, where she studied Social Sciences and Latin American History. A German national, Dr. Koch-Weser is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and to a lesser extent in French and Russian.

 
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