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Ana Correia
Political Correspondant- Agencia Lusa
Lisbon, Portugal
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Ana Correia is currently a political correspondent for Lusa, the Portuguese national news
agency. Since 2010 she has been working daily at the Portuguese Parliament. Previously
and also working for Lusa, she spent about three years covering Lisbon’s City Hall and
writing stories on the Portuguese capital city. Together with a fellow photographer Ms
Ana Correia is presently collecting portraits and stories of gay and lesbian parents and
their children (http://www.familiasaqui.com/). She is aiming that these family photos will
form an exhibition this year. Ms Ana Correia studied Journalism at the Universidade
Nova de Lisboa. At the same time, she started working at her hometown local radio,
where she did everything from cultural broadcasts to live coverage of roller hockey
games and cycling events.
Norberto Cuenca
Head, Origination and CDM Investments- Enel Holding
Madrid, Spain
Norberto Cuenca currently works for Enel’s Carbon Strategy Division - a unit managing
Enel´s compliance obligations for CO2 emission under the EU Emission Trading Scheme-
where he is responsible for Origination and CDM Investments. Mr. Cuenca also heads
Enel’s representative office in Beijing. Prior to joining Enel, Cuenca developed his career in
Beijing where he worked in both the public and private sectors for over six years. His
assignments in China included the Commercial Section of the Spanish Embassy, the startup
the first fully foreign invested wind farm developer in the country and other positions
in the renewable energy and climate change sectors. Norberto Cuenca graduated in 2002
with a double engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and Politécnica de Madrid
specialising in energy systems.
George-Wilhelm Gallhofer
Counsellor for Enlargement and Western Balkans- Permanent Representation of Austria to the European
Union
Vienna, Austria
George-Wilhelm Gallhofer is currently Councillor for EU-Enlargement and Western
Balkans at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels,
Belgium. Prior to this he served as Deputy to the Permanent Representative of Austria to
the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. His previous professional experience includes
postings at the EU directorate general of the Austrian MFA, where he worked on the
drafting of the Lisbon treaty, at the public international law department where he dealt

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with sanctions questions and the consular and legal directorate general. He holds a Bachelors of English
and German law from University College London, the London School of Economics and the University of
Cologne, a Masters of international relations of the University of Warwick and an advanced master of
international studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Faik Ispahiu
Executive Director - Internews Kosova
Priština, Kosovo
Faik Ispahiu is the director and executive producer of the BIRN and Internews Kosova
most watched current affairs debates Life in Kosovo (Jeta ne Kosove), Justice in Kosovo
(Drejtesia ne Kosove) and TEMA - the first series of TV bridge debate programs focusing on
the Dialogue process between Kosovo and Serbia transmitted in Kosovo, Serbia and other
TV stations across the Balkan region. He is also the creator of the only social media platform
in Kosovo www.kallxo.com , which allows citizens to report cases of corruption,
misconduct, conflict of interest of public officials as well as a member of the team that
developed the online portal www.gazetajnk.com known as the leader of investigative
reporting in Kosovo. Additionally, Faik was in charge for organisation of launching and
managing first three editions of Kosova Infest International Theatre Festival in Prishtina.
Ispahiu is known as a controversial, courageous and innovative theatre director. Faik holds a degree in
TV, Film, Radio and Theatre Directing and has more than 16 years of experience on managing positions,
supervision, training, supporting professional journalism and development of free and independent
media in Kosovo and the Balkan region.
Jenny Kleeman
Freelance Journalist
London, the United Kingdom
Jenny Kleeman is an award-winning British journalist, writer and documentary
maker. A well-known face on Unreported World, Channel 4 Television’s criticallyacclaimed
foreign affairs strand, Jenny has reported from across the developing
world, from the Amazon rainforest to Liberia's slums, via Cambodia, Nigeria and
Afghanistan. She has also presented Investigations for Channel 4’s Dispatches,
BBC One’s The One Show and Explore for BBC Two. Jenny writes comment pieces
and long-form features for the Guardian newspaper, as well as the Sunday Times,
the Times, the Independent, Monocle and the Huffington Post. She is a regular
guest on BBC News and Sky News, commenting on national newspaper coverage of the day’s biggest
stories. Jenny graduated with a double first in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University in
2001.

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Mustafa Kutlay – Ankara, Turkey
Research Fellow- International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)
Ankara, Turkey
Mustafa Kutlay is a research fellow at International Strategic Research Organization
(USAK), Centre for EU Studies, one of the biggest think tanks in Turkey. His main
research areas include international political economy, political economy of Europe,
Turkey-EU relations, and Southern Europe in world affairs (particularly Greece, and
Cyprus question). Besides his active duty at USAK, he is also a research and teaching
assistant at Koç University Department of International Relations. He is at the final stage
of his PhD, and his dissertation focuses on the political economies of Greece and Turkey.
Recently he his research has concentrated on the Eurozone crisis, Greek economic crisis,
and the political economy of financial crisis, global power shifts and Turkey’s geopolitics.
He received his MA and BA degrees at Middle East Technical University (METU) in
Turkey.
Monika Lenhard
Desk Officer, Personnel Development and Planning Division- Federal Foreign Office
Berlin, Germany
Monika Lenhard is currently a desk officer in the Personnel Development and
Planning Division of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, and will be leaving the
German capital for her next foreign posting to Moscow in the summer of 2013. Her
first assignment abroad was to the German Liaison Office in Pristina, Kosovo,
where she was desk officer for cultural and press affairs. She subsequently served
as the Chief Political Advisor to the Commander of NATO troops in Kosovo
(KFOR). On returning to Berlin, she dealt with NATO issues in the Division for
Defence and Security Policy of the Federal Foreign Office, and later on transferred
to the Personnel Development and Planning Division. Ms. Lenhard completed her Master degree in
Cultural History of Eastern and Central Europe and Modern History at the University of Bremen,
spending semesters at St. Petersburg State University, Russia, as well as Warsaw State University,
Poland. She speaks Russian fluently and is proficient in French, Albanian and Polish.
Valentina Margaria
Post-doc Senior - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Torino, Italy
Valentina Margaria works at the Center for Space Human Robotics IIT@poliTO
developing artificial physiology systems to support the interaction between
humans and robots. Her research is devoted to hand exoskeleton to enhance and
facilitate human’s activity. Valentina graduated in Medical Biotechnology from the
University of Torino in 2003. She worked on cancer molecular mechanisms at the

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Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment until 2007, when she earned a Ph.D. in Complex system
applied to post-genomic biology. As the result of her multidisciplinary training, she led the BioMEMS
unit at Techfab Srl working on the convergence between biotechnology and nanotechnology to design
innovative system for cells analysis and powerful tools for drug testing. In 2010, she graduated from the
Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Park in California. The experience she had in Silicon
Valley led up to the foundation of Axelera, a non- profit organization whose aim is to promote Italian
technological innovation.
Gregory Martin
Non-Fiction Publisher - Editions Denoel
Paris, France
Gregory Martin is a publisher of both French and foreign (in translation) nonfiction
books for Editions Denoel, a subsidiary of Gallimard Group. The books he
publishes are of general interest, he does mass-market books (mostly about current
affairs) and upmarket essays (mostly historical narrative non-fiction). Seeing books
as a tool to fulfill citizenship, he focuses as much as possible on books which may
help to fight discriminations against minorities. The books he publishes also intend
to decipher the American society for French readers (a good example is David
McCullough’s The Greater Journey). M. Martin is also a professional translator
(from English to French)—his last published work is Bob Woodward’s Obama’s
Wars. He has a post graduate diploma in book publishing and a Master’s Degree in contemporary French
history from Paris IV-Sorbonne University.
Guilherme Waldemar Goulão dos Reis d’Oliveira Martins
Auxiliary Professor - Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal
Guilherme Waldemar Goulão dos Reis d’Oliveira Martins currently serves as an
Auxiliary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he works in
the Legal and Economic Sciences area. He is a member of the board of IDEFF – Instituto
de Direito Económico, Financeiro e Fiscal from the Faculty of Law of the University of
Lisbon, Executive Secretary for the Advanced Postgraduate Course in Public Sector
Finance and Management and organises the Tax Benefits module in the Postgraduate
Course in Tax Law at IDEFF. He is also the owner of a Portuguese Audit Firm (Oliveira,
Reis & Associados) and a lawyer registered within the Municipal Council of Lisbon. He
served as legal adviser to the Office of the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs between
2005 and 2011 and was the Chairperson of the Interministerial Council for the
Coordination of Tax Incentives for Investment from 2010 to 2012. He obtained a PhD in Public Finance
from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon a Master’s in Legal and Economic Sciences from the
Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic
University of Portugal.

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Jeton Mehmeti
Policy Analyst - Institute for Advanced Studies GAP
Prishtina, Kosovo
Jeton Mehmeti is currently Research Director at GAP Institute in Prishtina, Kosovo.
GAP is one of the leading think tanks in Kosovo, conducting research on political
and socio-economic issues. At GAP he also writes policy papers on social issues. His
research priority is higher education, unemployment, religion and media relations.
In the last four years he has been the country author (Kosovo Chapter) of IREX’s
Media Sustainability Index study. He has published a number of papers such as
Employment Policies in Kosovo (Bulgaria 2012), Turkey’s socio-economic involvement in
post-war Kosovo (Turkey 2012), the need for interfaith dialogue in Kosovo (USA 2012), etc.
His first book “Tensions between freedom of expression and religious sensitivity”
was published in Germany in 2011. Jeton also teaches at the department of Journalism, University of
Prishtina. He completed his MA in Public Policy at Central European University (Budapest), and did a
double major in Comparative Religion and Communication at International Islamic University Malaysia.
Joanna Mackowiak-Pandera
Head of Market Development Department, Management Team Poland - DONG Energy
Warsaw, Poland
Joanna Mackowiak-Pandera is currently a management board member and the head of
market development department in the international energy company in Warsaw. Prior
to this, she worked at the Polish Ministry of the Environment as deputy minister and
earlier as the head of political cabinet of Minister Prof. Maciej Nowicki. She was
responsible among the others for the development of the programme and afterwards the
coordination of Polish Presidency in the European Council in the environment field. In
2008 she completed the PhD – she compared German and Polish practical experiences in
the environmental impact assessments and to developed good practice applicable in both
countries. She spent 4 years in Germany where she worked at the Federal Environmental
Agency in Berlin and the Institute for Geoecology in Potsdam. Joanna is the member of
the Young Polish International Network and numerous associations and business
organizations devoted to the sustainable development.

Luigi Pantisano
Research Assistant
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
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Luigi Pantisano is currently a Research Assistent at the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. The main topic in his
academic and doctoral research is „Migration in Urban Spaces“. In addition, he is
responsible at the Department for the special Division „Planning in Rural Areas“. Luigi
Pantisano applied to a University Degree with a second-chance education. He studied
Architecture and Urban Planning. He plans to complete his Ph.D. at the University of
Stuttgart in 2015. Prior to his actual work Luigi Pantisano was a Neighbourhood
Manager in a disadvantaged Neighbourhood in the City of Constance in Germany. He
was responsible for implementing urban planning and integration policy projects with
public participation. He was the co-founder and board member of a newly created
community association „Together in Constance“ and he is actually working for the association as an
Community Organizer. Trough projects like „Urban Gardening“ he helps migrants to have a part in the
German Society.
Roxana Teodorcic
Deputy Chief of Party
Moldova Civil Society Strengthening Program
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Roxana Teodorcic is currently Deputy Chief of Party of FHI 360 implemented
Moldova Civil Society Strengthening Program. Roxana has joined the program
in 2010, as Communications and Monitoring and Evaluation Manager. She led
the implementation of the nationwide CSO Visibility Campaign “Get to know
the NGO that represents you” and brought more than 70 organizations closer
to their constituents and consolidated the capacity of more than 100 NGOs,
particularly to better communicate their activities to journalists and use massmedia
more effectively in promoting their programs. Prior to this she was in the position of the Media
Manager with IREX. Teodorcic provided assistance to a network of independent local TV stations to
increase news and informational programming by producing quality products. She is one of the reporters
of the Mapping Digital Media: Moldova report, published by the Open Society Foundations on February
2012.

Işık Tüzün
Istanbul, Turkey
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Işık Tüzün is the Deputy Coordinator of the Education Reform Initiative (ERI) and her
main interests include right to and rights in education, bilingualism, religion and
education, gender equality in education, and inclusive education. She is the editor of
“Right to and Rights in Education: An Evaluation of National Legislation in Light of
International Human Rights Documents” published by ERI in 2009, and has a
forthcoming article titled “Disaggregation for Inclusion” prepared for KulturKontakt,
Austria’s “Edition II”. Işık holds a Master's degree in Development Studies from the
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), located
in The Hague. During her graduate studies at ISS, she majored in Politics of Alternative
Development and minored in Poverty Studies. During her undergraduate studies at Koç University, she
spent a year in Columbus as an exchange student at the Political Science Department of Ohio State
University.
Milos Velimirovic
Belgrade, Serbia
Milos Velimirovic is currently the Head of Public finance Department in Hypo Alpe-
Adria-Bank ad, in Belgrade, Serbia. He is also member of the Assembly in the Central
Depository and Clearing House. Milos is also member of the Mayor of Belgrade
Investment Council. Before engagement in the financial sector, he gained experience in
public sector, in institutions with different competencies at both the state and local levels.
He served as Advisor in the Legal Department in the President of the Republic People’s
Office and Advisor to the President of the Municipality Savski venac, Belgrade. Parallel
with his professional engagement, he has been politically active in the Democratic Party
for over twelve years, during which he has held numerous positions. Currently he serves
as President of the branch Savski venac and as a member of the National Committee. Mr.
Velimirovic has a Masters from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, as well as a diploma in
financial strategy from the Said Business School at Oxford University. Currently he is a PhD student
focusing on research in the areas of law and economy. His main academic interests are: politics,
economics, law and security policy.