Contacts : Working Group on Non-Governmental Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe
WG Programme Coordinators:
Michael
Brintnall is formerly the Executive Director of the American Political
Science Association and of the National Association of Schools of Public
Affairs and Administration in Washington DC, and has held senior
positions in academic administration and in the US federal government.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and
currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Montgomery College, the
Environmental Investigation Agency, and the American Society for Public
Administration.
- Gyorgy Hajnal, NISPAcee President / Professor, Head of Department,
Corvinus University of Budapest / Senior Researcher, Institute for
Political Science, Center for Social Research of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences (IPS CSR HAS), Hungary, [email protected]
Gyorgy
Hajnal is a Professor in the Department of Public Policy and
Management, Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Researcher at the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Polictical Science. Prior
to his current positions he worked as a Senior Researcher/ Head of
Department for 15 years at the Hungarian Institute of Public
Administration and its successor organisation. Besides his full-time
academic positions he has been and contiues to be extensively involved
in international research cooperation projects in topics relating to
comparative public management reforms. He has also served as a
consultant to various international academic, governmental and business
organisations. He has been serving as a NISPAcee President since May
2018.
Iga Kender-Jeziorska
is a PhD student in the Doctoral School of Political Science at
Corvinus University of Budapest. Her main research areas include
non-governmental organisations and their involvement in policy-making
and public service delivery, especially in the area of drug policy. She
has been actively involved in the third sector since 2011. She is a
member of the Board of Advisors and a coordinator of the international
network Youth Organisations for Drug Action. Since July 2018 she has
been serving as a Chair of the Working Group on EU Drug Strategy and
Action Plan in the Civil Society Forum on Drugs - an advisory body to
the European Commission.
Previous WG coordinator Assistant:
Réka
Zsuzsánna Máthé has earned her master’s degree in Management of Public Institutions and
Non-Governmental Organisations offered through a programme of
Babes-Bolyai University and Michigan State University. She is a PhD
student of the National University of Public Service and her research
focuses on policies related to civil society and social capital.
Concurrently, she is furthering her studies in European public
administration and policies at the College of Europe in Belgium. As a
young researcher, she has gained experience by earning a national
research grant; research that was overseen by the Hungarian Academy of
Science, and is participating in an international research programme.
Her past experience also includes working at various NGOs in Europe and
the Silicon Valley, United States, as well as completing a leadership
development programme with the US Federal Government.