Daniela Aydin

Daniela Aydin

Daniela Aydin currently serves as a Project Officer at the Council of Europe Development Bank, overseeing an EU-funded pilot project focused on enhancing access to housing and employment for Roma communities in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia through financial inclusion and microfinance. Prior to her role at the Council of Europe Development Bank, Aydin worked for […]

Borislava Gabrovska

Borislava Gabrovska

Borislava Gabrovska is a Senior Advisor at the European Investment Bank. Her role is to identify and meet the advisory needs of project promoters from EU Member States who are looking at enhancing their investment readiness and moving projects closer to financing or implementation.  She has extensive experience in project development and assessment throughout the […]

Johan Mirtorp

Johan mirtorp

Mr. Johan Mirtorp is Chairman of the ”Housing Policy Working Group” at the International Union of Tenants (IUT). Additionally, he is active as general counsel at the Swedish Union of Tenants with a particular responsibility for EU-related and international issues. In addition to his basic law degree he holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) with […]

Allison Burden

Allison Burden

Allison started out her career as a volunteer in Sudan and the Gambia; she then worked with Christian Aid and Oxfam in Rwanda and Burundi during the post-genocide years from 1995 to 1999.  After working regionally with Oxfam she joined CARE USA in 2001. She played a number of roles regionally in East, Central, Southern […]

Dean Nelson, Master of Ceremony

Dean Nelson is director of Foreign Desk Ltd, a communications consultancy offering a range of media services, including training, event hosting, content creation and strategic communications. An award-winning journalist, author and media advisor, Dean is a former editor of the Sunday Times Insight investigations team and spent ten years in India as a foreign correspondent. […]

Michèle Frey-Hilti

Michèle Frey-Hilti took over as Managing Director of the Hilti Family Foundation in 2019. Until then, she had been Managing Director of the Hilti Foundation since 2016. She is the granddaughter of the company founder Professor Martin Hilti, and joined the Hilti Group in 2012. She served as a Customer Service Representative, and later as […]

Maimunah Mohd Sharif

Ms Maimunah Mohd Sharif of Malaysia is the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat), appointed by the Secretary‐General, following an election by the General Assembly on 22 December 2017. She succeeds Joan Clos of Spain to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated service to the Organization. Dr Clos led […]

Anna Júlia Donáth

Anna Júlia Donáth is a Hungarian MEP sitting in the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs as well as the Employment and Social Affairs Committees. She studied sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and migration and ethnic studies at the University of Amsterdam. After her studies, she worked in the civil […]

Lenka Antalová Plavuchová

Lenka Antalova Plavuchova is the Deputy Mayor of Bratislava responsible for city rental housing and social policies. She is highly skilled municipal politician with strong focus on affordable housing, rental housing developement and innovative strategies in city flat stock aquisition with regards to social impact and improving affordability of housing.  Lenka Antalova Plavuchova’s  earlier career […]

HRH Princess Lamia Bint Majed Saud AlSaud

Her Royal Highness Princess Lamia Bint Majed Saud AlSaud is the Secretary-General and member of the Board of Trustees at Alwaleed Philanthropies. She is the daughter of Prince Majed bin Saud, the son of King Saud bin Abdulaziz AlSaud. Princess Lamia was appointed Secretary-General of Alwaleed Philanthropies in April 2016, having previously served as Executive […]

Gilles Morel

Gilles Morel is the President of Whirlpool Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Executive Vice President of Whirlpool Corporation since April 2019. Prior to joining Whirlpool, Gilles gained over 25 years experience in the consumer goods industry, mostly at Mars Inc. leading sales, operations, marketing, manufacturing, research and development and procurement. He covered several […]

Estrella Durá-Ferrandis

Estrella Durá-Ferrandis is a Member of the European Parliament representing Spain. She is a Member of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats political group,  Full member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL), and Substitute in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). Estrella Durá-Ferrandis, PhD in Psychology, Full […]