European Division: Staff
Angelo Caserta: Regional Director of the European Division
Angelo manages the European Division, coordinating the team based in Brussels, UK and Portugal. He has 20 years experience in non-profit leadership, organisational development, strategic thinking, fundraising, policy and research, facilitation and mediation, impact assessment. He is responsible for ensuring an effective and inclusive working environment that enables the European team, the European Partners and BirdLife International to fulfill objectives and mission. Angelo represents BirdLife as appropriate within BirdLife International and external fora and, as Director of the European Division, he contributes to the development of BirdLife's global strategy, programme and policies in collaboration with other Regional Heads and Directors. Angelo speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and basic Dutch. Angelo is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: angelo.caserta@birdlife.org
The Policy Team
Ariel Brunner: Head of EU Policy
Ariel is responsible for the coordination of BirdLife's work on EU Policy and takes the lead in various cross-cutting issues such as Climate Change and the EU budget. He speaks Italian, English, Spanish, French, as well as Hebrew. Ariel is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: ariel.brunner@birdlife.org
Tatiana Nemcova: Senior EU Advocacy Officer
Tatiana is a joint RSPB (BirdLife Partner in the UK) and BirdLife staff member. She is responsible for assisting policy experts and BirdLife Partners to liaise effectively with the EU institutions. Together with colleagues she helps identifying policy opportunities in the EU institutions and put forward BirdLife priorities. She is based in Brussels. She speaks Slovak, English and has notions of German. Tatiana is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: tatiana.nemcova@birdlife.org
Rastislav Rybanic: EU Nature Policy Officer
Rastislav works on EU Nature policy issues with a strong focus on improving the implementation of EU Nature Directives, hunting or specific cases of threatened sites. His job is to assist national BirdLife partners and maintain in close contact with the EU institutions. Within the European Division of BirdLife Rastislav is the contact person for the Birds and Habitats Directives Task Force. He speaks Slovak, English and has notions of German. Rastislav is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: rastislav.rybanic@birdlife.org
Trees Robijns: EU Agriculture Policy Officer
Trees deals with EU Agriculture Policy and other related policies linked to agriculture and biodiversity, including land use, bioenergy and climate adaptation and mitigation. She speaks Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. Trees is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: trees.robijns@birdlife.org
Conservation & Research Team
Boris Barov: European Conservation Manager
Boris works with the Partners to ensure that Europe’s globally threatened birds and IBAs are conserved. He is responsible for action plans for threatened species, development and implementation of on the ground conservation projects, building of networks of site support groups (IBA Caretakers) and safeguarding threatened sites in non-EU countries. He is available to provide general support to BirdLife Partners in developing their conservation programmes and in sharing their experience with others in the network. He also supports the European Forest Task Force in their work. Boris was trained as ecologist and has over 10 years of practical experience in a BirdLife partner. Boris is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: boris.barov@birdlife.org
Ian Burfield: European Science and Data Manager
Ian is responsible for identifying research and data needs, and then designing and coordinating suitable projects to meet them. Through the European Partnership, he collates national population and trend data on all European bird species and assesses their conservation status at European level (Birds in Europe), as well as contributing to global updates (IUCN Red List). He also coordinates the identification and monitoring of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Europe, overseeing a network of more than 4,500 sites and ensuring that all of them meet BirdLife’s criteria. Ian is based in Cambridge, UK.
email: ian.burfield@birdlife.org
Communication Team
Herlinde Herpoel: Head of European Communication & Marketing
Herlinde is responsible for public relations and communication at the BirdLife European Division. She advises BirdLife partners in Europe on various communication issues, brings them in contact with each other and keeps them updated on European news. She is responsible for media contacts and works together with the European team to promote BirdLife's activities and brand in Europe. Herlinde is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: herlinde.herpoel@birdlife.org
Alessia Pautasso: Communication and Information officer
Alessia is responsible for and editor of BirdLife Europe e-news, BirdLife monthly pan-European newsletter, press releases and follows the preparation of other BirdLife publications. She monitors international publications on a daily basis, keeping the European Division and BirdLife Partners up to date on the main environmental issues. Together with the Head of European Communication and Marketing she works in constant contact with Partners and helps with the organisation of conferences and workshops. Alessia is Italian and she speaks English, French and German. Alessia is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: alessia.pautasso@birdlife.org
Fundraising Team
Maria Solernou: Funding Development Manager
email: maria.solernou@birdlife.org
Marine Team
Iván Ramírez: European Marine Coordinator
Iván Ramírez works as European Marine Coordinator since January 2009 and leads the development and effective implementation of BirdLife’s Marine Important Bird Areas (IBA) programme and seabird conservation in Europe, following the guidelines established by both the European Division and the Global Seabird Programme. He contributes to the planning, development, implementation and communication amongst the European Partners and the European Division office in this field. He is also responsible for the implementation of the European Natura 2000 Network at sea, through the declaration of Marine SPAs. Iván is based in SPEA(BirdLife in Portugal), but travels frequently to Brussels and to many European countries, he has been working within BirdLife for the last 7 years and speaks fluently Portuguese, Spanish, English and basic French.
e-mail: ivan.ramirez@birdlife.org
Administration & Finance Team
Marina Rollet: Finance Officer
Marina is responsible for the day-to-day runnings of the finance administration of the European Division in Brussels and for the coordination of the finance side of all project agreements between the European Division and the European Partners. She works closely with the finance team of Birdlife International in Cambridge. Marina speaks French, English, Italian and German. Marina is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: marina.rollet@birdlife.org
Yasmine Boxus: Office Manager
Yasmine is responsible for running the day to day business of the European Division office. She provides secretarial and administrative support to the European Division staff and participates to the BirdLife International events organised in Brussels. Yasmine speaks French, English, Classical Arabic and has a good understanding of Dutch. She is based in Brussels, Belgium.
email: yasmine.boxus@birdlife.org
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