Our Team
BirdLife Europe & Central Asia has an international team of permanent staff responsible for conservation, science, policy, advocacy, capacity building, fundraising, communications, finance and administration supporting the 45 European and Central Asian BirdLife Partners.
Communications

Christopher Sands
Director of Global Communications at BirdLife International and BirdLife Europe and Central Asia

Honey Kohan
Communications Manager

Caroline Herman
Communications Officer

Erica Gentili
Junior Communications Officer

Saskia Pelzer
Communications Officer
Science & Conservation

Anna Staneva
Head of Science, Species and Site Conservation

Antonio Vulcano
Marine Officer

Daniel Mitchell
European Marine Coordinator

Joana Bores
IBA Conservation Officer

Lilla Barabas
Project Coordinator – LIFE Against Bird Crime

Shane Sparg
Conservation Partnership Manager

Sofia Capellan
Senior Conservation Officer, Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas

Tom Cabuy
Sibelco Partnership Coordinator

Thomas Sebrechts
Land Use Data Analyst

Willem van Den Bossche
Senior Flyway Conservation Officer
Finance & Administration

Peter Swaelen
Finance & Administration Manager

Areti Kapogianni
Administrative Assistant

Evans Siaw
Finance Business Partner

Jerine Migrino
Finance Assistant

Marcia Pereira
Finance Officer
Capacity Development

Brecht Verhelst
Network Development Manager

Dorothée Guénéheux
Partnership Development Officer
Consultants

Attila Králl
Consultant for Nature and Climate Task Force

Tatiana Nemcova
EU Policy Consultant

Itri Levent Erkol
Consultant for Recovering Nature in the East (RENATE) – Caucasus & Turkey

Vedran Lucić
Consultant for Recovering Nature in the East (RENATE) – Balkans

Sonia Rouabhi
Consultant for the EU Parliament elections
Careers in Europe and Central Asia
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