Katka Letzing
Katka Letzing is a CEO & Co-founder at Kickstart Innovation. She spent a decade in Silicon Valley with a focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and related topics for the Institute of International Education, and in the U.S. Department of State programs/White House initiatives involving startups and other organizations from more than 170 countries. Since 2013, she […]
Nick Chow
Nick Chow is the Director of Sustainability EMEA at Plug and Play, the world’s largest corporate innovation platform and early-stage investor. Nick is responsible for investing in early-stage technology startups that are building a more sustainable future in areas of circular economy and climate tech. Additionally, Nick partners with corporations across EMEA like The Alliance […]
Anna Konotchick
Anna Konotchick is the Director of Program Strategy for Habitat for Humanity International. As part of the global Program Effectiveness team, she leads the development of the international program strategy and related efforts including results measurement. Anna recently served as Habitat’s Asia Pacific Operations Director, leading a team that provides program support across 17 countries. […]
Sondre Støyva
Sondre has a background in the financial markets, real-estate, start-ups. Co-founder and investor in several successful start-ups with exits to public listed companies. Educational background within innovation and entrepreneurship and AI/ML and IoT programs from MIT.
György Sümeghy
György Sümeghy is an Associated Director of Advocacy & Policy at Habitat for Humanity, EMEA. He received his MA in English and Hungarian Literature in 1995 in Budapest. He spent ten years in public education and later at a private business college. He joined Habitat for Humanity Hungary as National Director in 2005. Under his […]
Štěpán Ripka
Štěpán Ripka is an advisor on housing to the Prahou housing and transparency councillor Adam Zabransky. In his work, he is responsible for the city housing stock management, allocation of social housing and its integration in the system for ending homelessness. Previously Stepan served as a chairman for Social housing Platform, an umbrella NGO advocating […]
Zoran Kostov
Dr Zoran Kostov is a university professor and National Director of Habitat for Humanity in Macedonia. In addition to his specialization in communication, he has extensive training and experience in mobilizing civil society for economic and social development. Alumni of Harvard Kennedy School’s executive education and London School of Economics’ Centre for the Study of […]
Leila Kabalan
Leila Kabalan is a Senior Specialist within the Urban Infrastructure and Economic Development team at Miyamoto International. She was previously an urban development consultant at the World Bank advising local governments on urban resilience and asset management practices. She also ran the Social Justice and the City Program (currently the Beirut Urban Lab) at the […]
Mincho Benov
Mincho Benov has worked in the fields of the capital market, the financial sector and international development as an Executive Director of Sofia Stock Exchange, Director Financial Sector and Capital Markets at the US FLAG Consortium and as a consultant of the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Since 2005 to […]
Marek Hojsik
Marek Hojsik is policy officer at the Central European University’s Democracy Institute (Budapest) where, since 2018, he has led the EC-funded initiative “Roma Civil Monitor”, implemented in 27 member states and involving more than 100 civil society organisations and activists. Marek is also coordinating an international project research project “New methods in data collection on […]
Jakub Wilczek
Co-founder and since 2014 president of the Polish National Federation for Solving the Problem of Homelessness; since 2011 representative of Poland in FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless) and since 2018 vice-president of this organization; since 2015 member of the Combating Homelessness Expert Committee of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights […]
Grażyna Szotkowska
Master of Science in Engineering and Specialist in civil engineering; certified property manager, Grażyna Szotkowska is the President of Board at Szczecińskie TBS Spółka z o.o. (STBS) 1996 until present. In the 1990s, Grażyna Szotkowska contributed to the development of strategic policy papers promoting the development of Szczecin, including the “Local Housing Policy” and the […]