The ECPYN Board consists of six board members who concern themselves with the greater schemes of international poltical cooperation of young Christians. Below you can find a brief introduction of our board members.
Razvan Burleanu | Nutsa Shavladze | Auke Minnema | Denys Dhiver | Elina Foinska | Péter Danku
| Razvan Burleanu - President |
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Razvan Burleanu (1984) was born in Romania and has a degree in Political Science and in Security and Strategic Studies. In the past he worked for a local newspaper, as local councillor in a municipality in the north of Romania and for the Parliament of Romania (Senate). Today, he works for the President of Romania and is involved with the 'European Institute of Participatiory Democracy - Qvorum'. He was elected president of ECPYN in August of 2009. |
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| Nutsa Shavladze - Vice President |
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Nutsa Shavladze (1988) was born in Georgia and has a degree in Social and Political Sciences, speciality - International Relations. Besides her studies she did several trainings, fellowships and graduating programs in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf); Hungary (Budapest); Czech Rebublic (Prague); Great Britain (London); USA (Madison, Manchester, Washington DC, Washington, Wisconsin); France (Paris) and The Netherlands (Amsterdam).
From 2006-2007 she worked for the “Centre for the Spiritual and Intellectual Development of the Youth” of the patriarch of Georgia where she was working as a Secretary General and Head of Science Committee. Afterward in 2007-2008 she worked in non-governmental organization “Georgian Opinion” as a Press Speaker. From 2008 till 2010 she worked as a Manager of Relations with Interest Groups in CDM. Since 2010 till now works as Media Manager of Christian Democratic Faction in Georgian Parliament.
Since February 2008 till now she works in Young Christian Democrats of Georgia as an International Secretary. In 2009 she was elected board member of ECPYN as Political Secretary. In July 2011 she was reelected as Vice President. |
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| Auke Minnema - Secretary |
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Auke Minnema (1983) is an master student of History (specialized in contemporary history of Central- and Eastern Europe after 1945) at Groningen University (the Netherlands). Auke is former president of the Zwolle and Fryslân branches of PerspectieF (PerspectivE, the youth organisation of the Christian Union party of the Netherlands). From 2008 until 2010 he was Secretary of Regional Meetings and from 2009 - 2010 Vice-secretary of ECPYN. Since February of 2009 he is International Secretary of PerspectieF. From June 2010 he is general coordinator of Christians in Politics Portal. July 2010 he was elected board member of ECPYN as secretary. |
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| Denys Dhiver - Political Secretary |
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Denys Dhiver (1985) was born in Paris, France. He studied Engineering in Paris and Zürich (CH), and works nowadays for the Healthcare Industry. After several associative responsibilities he joined in 2007 the youth section of the French Parti Chrétien-Démocrate (PCD) and was until 2009 responsible for Studies, as well as one of the national secretaries of the PCD. Nowadays he is as boardmember of PCD responsible for the youth who lives abroad. He joined the ECPYN board in January 2010 and was elected in July 2010. |
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| Elina Foinska - Director of Events |
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Elina Foinska (1987) was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and has Masters' degree in German and English Translation and Linguistics. She is active in politics since 2007 when she has been elected to the student parliament of the Kharkiv National University and simultaneously joined the Youth Union "Our Ukraine" and worked in the international department of this youth NGO. In 2009 she was one of the founders of an NGO Foundation of Democratic Initiatives dealing mainly with educational and training programs for politically active young people and research as well as with translation in cooperation with various international foundations and she still works as event manager on part-time basis there. Currently Elina works as the International Secretary of the political party Christian Democratic Union of Ukraine. In July 2011 she was elected as ECPYN board member. |
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| Péter Danku - Director of Communications |
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Péter Danku (1982) was born in Debrecen, Hungary. He is Political Advisor, Executive for International Relations at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice - Office of the Minister of State for Government Communication in Budapest, Hungary. Being a civil servant he works as an executive in international relations and has been a key person in the government department for international communication.
Péter has also been assigned the task of managing internal, cross-ministerial discussions and strategic PR advice in parallel with his role in helping to communicate Hungary’s economic, political and constitutional agenda to international audiences. He has been a key player in presenting the Government of Hungary’s position, and in discussing the opportunities that strategic partners have identified for engagement with the international financial media, political / financial analysts and other potential key opinion leaders. In 2011 he was elected as ECPYN board member.
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