About CEV > Board of Directors

Print this text

CEV Board of Directors (elected in April 2008 for a 3 years period)

Eva Hambach
President
Vlaams Steunpunt Vrijwilligerswerk (B)

 Eva Hambach has been elected as new CEV President on 14 October 2009.

Eva (born 1963) is director of the "Vlaams Steunpunt Vrijwilligerswerk", the Flemish region volunteer support centre in Belgium, and Vice-President of the Belgian High Council for Volunteering. She holds a Master degree in Political Sciences and International Policy. During her career she managed local community projects and served as Head of a Social Service ProvisionOffice in Antwerp, was involved for several years in the Belgian Trade Union and has lived in Syria for 2 years before joining the Vlaams Steunpunt Vrijwilligerswerk in 2001 as its director. Since 2003 Eva is active within the CEV network and was elect ed member of the Board of Directors in 2005. Eva has published various pieces on volunteering including manuals on the Belgian law on volunteering and on volunteer management.

Email: info [at] vsvw.be

Renzo Razzano
Vice President
SPES Italy (I)

 

Renzo is Italian and has been already a member of the Board of Directors 2005-2008 and since 2007 Vice President of CEV. Renzo is President of SPES (Volunteering Support Centre in the Lazio region), parallely he is the Delegate for European Policy and Work Group on Europe at CSV.net (Italian National Coordination of Volunteering Support Centres).

Renzo has been throughout his life active in social and labour matters, as well as with volunteering activities.  

Email: infospes [at] spes.lazio.it

Susana Szabo
Vice President

France Bénévolat (F)


Susana Szabo is of Hungarian origin and holds both Hungarian and British nationalities, living since 25 years in France. She represents France Bénévolat in the Board.  Susana, she has been working last year as an executive for the sector of non-profit organisations at the “Conseil Economique et Social” in Paris. Previously she also worked as executive for Europe in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in London and she was an English teacher and a freelance translator for English, Spanish and Hungarian.

Email: international [at] francebenevolat.org


Karl Monsen-Elvik
Treasurer
Volunteer Development Scotland (UK)

Karl Monsen-Elvik is Scottish, and the Programme Leader on Research and Development with Volunteer Development Scotland. Previously, Karl was the Development Manager at the Volunteer Centre North Lanarkshire and Vice-Chair of Volunteer Development Scotland. Currently he is a trustee at the Haemophilia Society UK.

Email: karl.monsen-elvik [at] vds.org.uk

Elaine Bradley
Volunteering Irleand  (EIR)


Elaine Bradley is Irish and the Chief Executive Officer of Volunteering Ireland (Volunteering Ireland is the leading national volunteer development agency in the Republic of Ireland, inspiring, promoting, supporting and facilitating volunteering as a force for social change).

Formerly, Elaine worked as a consultant specialising in organisational development, change management and the development of capability through organisational learning. She has worked for over 20 years in the not for profit sector in various roles, including senior management, and has extensive experience as a volunteer in a variety of organisations and settings.

Email: elaine [at] volunteeringireland.ie

 

Nwadi Okereke
Volunteering England (UK)

Nwadi Okereke is British, and Management Consultant and trainer on fundraising, general management strategies and techniques to voluntary networks and umbrella organisations in the UK.

Nwadi is a non-executive director of Volunteering England and has extensive leadership and management experience in NGOs, educational establishments, public and statutory bodies.

Marijke Steenbergen
MOVISIE (NL)         

Marijke is the CEO of MOVISIE, the Netherlands centre for social development, which was established in 2007 after a merge of major Dutch NGOs with an interest in the social field (one of them was the previous CEV member CIVIQ). She has a long experience in the not for profit sector in the Netherlands, working also before in consultancy for social development.

From 1986 till 1997 she was a lecturer at the Center for Policy and Management Studies (Utrecht University), in 1994 she obtained her PhD and her topics of research and teaching included: management of change, cooperation & networks and human service management. Marijke has been member of the Board of Directors of CEV since 2003 and was the CEV President between November 2007 and October 2009.

Email: m.steenbergen [at] movisie.nl

 
Cristina Rigman
ProVobis Romania (ROM)


Cristina Rigman is Romanian and the Executive Director of Pro Vobis (National Volunteer Centre) where she works since 2003 to promote and develop volunteerism in Romania through training, consultancy, research and networking facilitation.

Cristina has also academic experience as associate lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and is currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology researching the ”Concepts of Social Responsibility in the Romanian Society”.

Email: pr [at] provobis.ro


Gisela Lucke
ARBES (D)

Gisela Lucke is German, and has been on the CEV Board of Directors since 2005. She is a member of the Management Board of ARBES, the regional network for volunteering in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, working as a volunteer in this position.

Formerly, she was a member of parents – teachers’ organisation and the chairwoman for 25 schools in the town where she lives. She has been over many years a lay judge volunteer in her county.

Email: jogi.lucke [at] t-online.de



Olga Sozanská
Hestia National Volunteer Centre (CZ)

Olga Sozanska is Czech, and currently the President of Hestia, the National Volunteer Centre.Previously, she was working as an advisor and psychotherapist at the Marriage and Family Counselling Centre.

She is a psychologist, and throughout her life performed at several instances the role of lecturer and supervisor in training courses for psychologists, social workers, and volunteers.

Email: osozanska [at] hest.cz

András F. Tóth
ÖKA National Volunteer Centre (HU)

 András F. Tóth has been elected as a new Board member on 14 October 2009.

András F. Tóth was born in 1974 in Debrecen (Hungary). He graduated as teacher in 1995 and then as social politician in 2002 at the University of Debrecen. He was member of Youth Action for Peace (YAP) between 1995 and 2006 where he served as president between 2004 and 2006.
He worked at the Nonprofit Information and Training Centre Foundation (NIOK) between 1996 and 2002 where he was responsible for the Volunteer Development Programme from 1998 on. Volunteer development in Hungary became the focus of his work from this point on. He was member of the National Committee of the International Year of Volunteers (2001).

Since the establishment of the National Volunteer Centre (ÖKA) he has worked as its director.

Email: ftoth.andras [at] onkentes.hu

Member login:
Username
Password
European Commission
CEV is supported by the European Commission. Sole responsibility for the website and its content lies with CEV.
The European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.