Antonia Vorner

Antonia is currently Eurodad's director (ad interim). Before that, she acted since March 2016 as Grants, Finance and Office Manager, leading the finance and office team.  She had held similar roles in the Belgian Transition Network and Carbon Market Watch and worked for a European Commission project management unit responsible for tendering procedures and managed capacity building and development education projects in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Central America and South East Asia. Antonia studied Law at the University of Vienna with a specialisation in European and Comparative Law. German is her mother tongue and she speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian. 

Bodo Ellmers

Bodo is Eurodad's Head of Policy. This role includes managing Eurodad's policy team, supporting Eurodad's research activities, developing the network's policy positions with members, and representing Eurodad externally. He joined Eurodad back in 2009 as Policy and Advocacy Officer for aid effectiveness, leading campaigns on the OECD aid effectiveness process and on the UN Development Cooperation Forum, among others. In 2013 he moved on to lead Eurodad's work on debt, financial governance and responsible financing as Policy and Advocacy Manager. As such he has served on a United Nations expert group on sovereign debt workouts, and been in charge of Eurodad's advocacy towards the International Monetary Fund.

Cécilia Gondard

Cécilia Gondard joined Eurodad in June 2018 as a Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer working on publicly-backed private finance. Her role involves research and analysis, advocacy, and campaign coordination. Before joining Eurodad, Cécilia worked for the Global Progressive Forum and the S&D Group in the European Parliament. She also coordinated the Europeans for Financial Reform coalition. Cécilia has a degree in European Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Master’s degree in European Business from the ESCP-EAP European School of Management. Her mother tongue is French and she speaks fluent English and basic German.

Gino Brunswijck

Gino joined Eurodad in January 2018 as a Policy and Advocacy Officer. He carries out research, policy analysis and advocacy on conditionality by International Financial Institutions.

Before joining Eurodad, Gino worked at the Africa Europe Faith & Justice Network where he focused on research and advocacy on extractive industries, land rights and economic globalisation. He also worked as a research assistant at the College of Europe and has independently produced research papers on development issues. Previously, he carried out academic research on migration issues, and he has provided social and legal assistance to refugees for “Adviescentrum Migratie”. Gino has travelled and worked in several African countries.

Gino holds Master’s degrees in Economics and International Affairs from the University of Antwerp and in European Political Affairs from the College of Europe. He is fluent in Dutch, French and English and he speaks conversational Spanish.

Jan Van de Poel

Jan joined Eurodad in 2019 as Policy and Advocacy Manager on effective aid. In this capacity he leads Eurodad's policy and advocacy team working to improve the effectiveness of aid, push for fair climate finance that is responsive to the climate adaptation and mitigation priorities of developing countries and change the way publicly-backed private finance is used in development. Prior to joining Eurodad, Jan worked for Eurodad member organization 11.11.11 (Belgium), where he was responsible for the organization's advocacy on development finance, including private finance and international taxation, and served as Head of Policy between 2016 and 2019. He holds a PhD in history from the Free University of Brussels and degrees in Political Science (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Economics (Ghent University). A native Dutch speaker, Jan is also fluent in English and French and speaks intermediate Spanish.

Jean Saldanha

Before officially starting as director in April 2019, Jean worked for CIDSE, the international alliance of catholic development organizations based in Brussels, where she is a Senior Advisor. Previous to this she coordinated CIDSE’s finance advocacy for more than a decade. During this time she played a leading role in the European and international civil society coalitions’ work on the UN’s Financing for Development and Post-2015/SDG processes. Jean comes from Mumbai and was active in the human rights movement in India as a law student. She has a Master’s degree in International Law from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Jeronimo Ruiz Victoria

Jeronimo joined Eurodad on April of 2013 as a Grants & Admin Officer. He supports the general management of the office, IT compliance and financial aspects of grants management. Before joining Eurodad Jeronimo worked in management within the private sector in Mexico. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo in Mexico and also a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Jonkoping International Business School in Sweden. He speaks Spanish as his native language as well as English.

Julia Ravenscroft

Julia joined Eurodad in October 2013 as Communications and Funding Manager. She is responsible for all communications work including the website, social media, media liaison, publications and the newsletter. Julia previously managed the communications work of the European advocacy network Action for Global Health. She also worked for several years as a media officer for the UK-based NGO Refugee Action and is a former newspaper journalist. 

Lottie Atkin

Lottie joined Eurodad in January 2019 as Communications Assistant, supporting the Communications Manager and the Senior Communications Officer. When she left school she moved to India for a year under the guidance of the educational NGO Project Trust, where she worked at Devnar School for the Blind as a volunteer English teacher and social carer. Following this, Lottie spent two years on the Isle of Coll in the inner Hebrides to work for Project Trust in a similar role. Her mother tongue is English and she speaks fluent Dutch and basic French following an upbringing in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

María José Romero

María José joined Eurodad in July 2012 as a Policy and Advocacy Officer working on Private finance and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). Her role involves research and analysis, advocacy and monitoring policy developments. Before joining Eurodad, María José worked at the secretariat of the Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights (Latindadd), based in Peru, on tax justice and development finance. She has also worked at Eurodad before as a maternity leave replacement on tax justice. For five years she was Coordinator of the IFIs Latin American Monitor project at the Third World Institute (ITeM), based in Uruguay, where her main roles were networking and policy monitoring at a regional and global level on IFI-related issues and development finance. María José has a degree in political science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and is master candidate in political science from the same university. Her mother tongue is Spanish and she speaks fluent English.

Mark Perera

Mark joined Eurodad in July 2017 as Senior Networking and Advocacy Officer. He is part of the team taking forward Eurodad’s work on preventing and resolving debt crises, which includes developing and strengthening civil society capacity to work on debt-related issues. Before joining Eurodad, Mark worked as Project Manager and EU Advocacy Coordinator for Amnesty International in Brussels.  He has worked for many years in civil society, including as Lead Researcher and Advocate for the Transparency International EU Office, and in the youth and conflict resolution fields. Mark holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Bristol. His mother tongue is English, and he also speaks French, passable Swedish, and a smattering of Spanish.

Mary Stokes

Nerea Craviotto

Nerea is Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) and leads policy and advocacy work to improve the effectiveness of aid policies. Prior to working with Eurodad, Nerea has worked on policy and advocacy work on development policies with the trade unions and women’s rights organisations and has done few years of programmatic work at country level in Palestine. Nerea holds a master degree in Development Policies from Deusto University and a degree in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. A native Spanish / Catalan speaker, Nerea is also fluent in English and French and has a pretty good level of Italian.

Olivia Lally

Olivia joined Eurodad in June 2018 as Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, working on the tax justice team. She coordinates advocacy with EU institutions and carries out research on transparency and corporate tax, as well as engaging with Eurodad members.

Before joining Eurodad, Olivia lead Sightsavers Ireland’s Public Engagement team, focused on disability inclusive development policy and Chaired the Dóchas Disability and International Development Working Group. Prior to this, Olivia worked with ActionAid Ireland leading tax justice policy, advocacy and campaigning, and representing the organisation within Tax Justice Network Ireland. Olivia lectures on tax justice and international development issues in Irish universities, and has a keen interest in tax treaties and the gender dimensions and impacts of tax policy.

Olivia holds a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Law, from the Irish Centre for Human Rights and an undergraduate degree in Political Science, Sociology and English from the National University of Ireland Galway. English is her mother tongue.

Sachan Kumar

Sachan joined Eurodad in February 2017 as Finance and HR officer. He is responsible for Eurodad’s accountancy and helping to manage Eurodad’s finances and human resources. Before joining Eurodad, Sachan spent 6 years working as Finance Administrator for the European NGO Confederation for relief and development (CONCORD). He has also worked with CONCORD as a Finance and Administration Officer for the European Year for Development 2015 project (EYD2015). Sachan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Management from the Ecole pratique des hautes études commerciales (EPHEC) in Brussels. He speaks French, English, Hindi and Punjabi.  

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