Ms. Hadzi-Miceva Evans has been working with ECNL since its establishment and has made tremendous contributions to ECNL’s success on the European and international scene over the past 11 years.
Lindsay Driscoll, Supervisory Board Member of ECNL and Chair of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), stated:
I am delighted to welcome Katerina Hadzi-Miceva Evans as the new Executive Director of ECNL. With her committed and capable leadership, ECNL is going from strength to strength in making an impact to empower civil society. I look forward to working with Katerina as she leads ECNL into its next exciting phase.
Ms. Nilda Bullain, outgoing ECNL Executive Director who will join ICNL as Vice President-Operations, stated:
“I am delighted by Katerina’s appointment to this position. I am convinced that ECNL will thrive and open up to new opportunities under her leadership.”
Ms. Hadzi-Miceva Evans has been Senior Legal Advisor at ECNL. She was instrumental in developing key areas of expertise for ECNL, such as government-CSO cooperation models, public funding of CSOs, and volunteering. Ms. Hadzi-Miceva Evans gained and shared experience in law reform in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and has helped transfer it to countries from the Middle-East to Central-Asia. She has also been deeply committed to CSO legal reform in Macedonia, her native country, where she played a key role in creating progressive laws and government policies for CSOs. Ms. Hadzi-Miceva is also involved in global initiatives aiming to promote an enabling environment for association and assembly. She holds a Masters Degree in Law from the Central European University in Budapest, where she co-founded the Human RightS Initiative and is currently a member of its Board.
ECNL also welcomes Ms. Hanna Surmatz, Legal Counsel of the European Foundation Centre as its newest Supervisory Board member, and the appointment of Mr. Igor Vidacak, Head of the Croatian Government Office for Collaboration with NGOs as Chair of the Supervisory Board. We look forward to working with a renewed Board in making ECNL’s endeavors a success in this next chapter of its development.
ECNL is a public benefit organization based in Budapest, Hungary working to promote an enabling environment for civil society in Europe and beyond. ECNL is an affiliate of ICNL, which work together to improve the legal environment for civil society, philanthropy and public participation worldwide.