Katarzyna Przybylska
Katarzyna Przybylska is Senior Advocacy Manager at Habitat for Humanity Poland. She is Specialist in developing and promoting effective legal regulations that improve the quality and accessibility of housing solutions. Advocate for decent places to live acting on behalf of citizens and entire social groups affected by housing problems. She is a specialist in the development […]
Zsuzsanna Koritár
Zsuzsanna Koritár is the director of the Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute (MEHI). Before joining MEHI in 2017, Zsuzsanna spent 16 years working at Energiaklub, a prominent Hungarian nonprofit organization focusing on sustainable energy systems. At MEHI she has been working towards fulfilling the organisation’s goals to initiate and support any policy, market, business or social […]
Kerstin Sommer
Project Manager of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme of UN-Habitat, Kerstin Sommer has been working on slum upgrading, poverty reduction, inclusion and integration, community development at UN-Habitat headquarters since 2012. She is managing the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in 40 countries and 200 cities for more than 10 years. She has initiated urban poverty reduction strategies […]
Cecilia Rivera
Cecilia Rivera, Swisscontact’s representative in Peru, is a lawyer with a Master’s degree in Political Science and Government. She is a specialist in international cooperation, with more than 20 years of experience managing, designing, evaluating, and monitoring cooperation programs and public instruments and policies. She has been responsible for the Construya project in Colombia, funded […]
Nóra Teller
Nóra Teller, PhD, is a sociologist at the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest. Her research and consultancy expertise relates to issues of social housing, housing (de)segregation, housing finance, housing exclusion of Roma, homelessness, evaluation of using EU funds for social inclusion, covering CEE countries and selected old member states. She is a member of the […]
Claudio Acioly
Claudio Acioly Jr is an architect and urban planner, a development practitioner with over 40 years of experience in more than 30 countries. He worked as practicing expert, program manager, resident technical and policy advisor or short-term consultant to governments, bilateral and multilateral organizations, academic institutions, civil society organizations and community-based organizations amongst them the […]
Besim Nebiu
Besim Nebiu is the Director for Central and Eastern Europe /Commonwealth of Independent States at Habitat for Humanity. He has over 20 years of career in non-profit management, civil society development, democratization, media freedoms and international development. Based out of Habitat’s EMEA Area Office in Bratislava, for many years Besim has led HFHI’s work on […]
Sirarpi Haykazyan
Sirarpi Haykazyan is a lawyer who graduated from the French University in Armenia. Her career started and evolved in the development sector, working as a project officer for the World Bank Yerevan Office. She has been with the French Development Agency since 2019. She speaks Armenian, Russian, English and French.
Eszter Somogyi
Eszter Somogyi (MA in Sociology), a senior researcher at Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, has more than twenty years of experience in research and policy consultancy related to urban regeneration, social and affordable housing policy and complex policy making targeting vulnerable people. She has participated in numerous international research and social experimentation projects, among which she co-coordinated […]
Francisco Rojas
Francisco Rojas is a social entrepreneur and impact innovator. He has focused his work on finding creative and dignified solutions to address problems related to extreme poverty. Chosen among the 100 Young Leaders of 2020, he is the founder of HOBE, a Startup that develops different, low-cost and highly replicable alternatives that offer modular solutions […]
Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Alexandre Apsan Frediani is a principal researcher at the Human Settlements Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development, in London (UK). Alexandre leads the housing justice thematic work of IIED and he specialises on issues around human development in cities of the global South. Alexandre’s work explores participatory approaches to planning and design […]
Vera Kovács
Vera Kovács is a social policy analyst and a housing activist based in Budapest, Hungary; founder and CEO of Utcáról Lakásba Egyesület (From Streets to Homes Association), member of A Város Mindekié (The City is for All) activist group, and author of the book Utak az erdőben (Paths in the woods) published in 2019 by […]