WECF International Advisory Council
WECF has a new Advisory Council made up of key international people from the WECF network.
13.11.2007 |Chantal van den Bossche
Before the meeting 21 candidates had been proposed by WECF members, coming from different regions and with diverse backgrounds. WECF members elected the following 11 persons to the IAC:
- Svitlana Slesarenok (Ukraine; energy)
- Anna Tsvetkova (Ukraine; water & sanitation)
- Diana Iskreva (Bulgaria; sanitation)
- Sabine Brueckmann (Germany; sustainable rural development)
- Viviane Avandana (Spain; sustainable rural development & sanitation)
- Elena Manvelian (Armenia; health)
- Helen Lynn (UK; chemicals & health)
- Olga Speranskaya (Russia; chemicals & health)
- Victoria Elias (Russia; biodiversity & public participation)
- Irene Dankelman (Netherlands; gender & environment)
- as well as Nadjeska Kutepova (Russia; energy) as alternate.
The members of the IAC present in Belgrade met that evening, made some working arrangements and elected their co-chairs. As Victoria Elias can not be a co-chair for the moment, the IAC co-chairs for the coming period are: Irene Dankelman and Svitlana Slesarenok.
The tasks and structure of the IAC can be downloaded here.