The Fund is managed as a separate entity under the authority of the Steering Committee, which is responsible for the strategic orientation of the Fund and oversees the work of the Secretariat.
Each of the foundations constituting the Fund has one representative on the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee operates based on an eighteen-month rotating Chair, appointed by the founding partners.
Steering Committee Members:
Stefan Schäfers
Director, Europe programme and International development at King Baudouin Foundation,
Franz Karl Prüller
Senior Advisor to the Management Board of ERSTE Foundation and Savings Bank Group in Austria
Atje Drexler
Senior Vice President International Cooperation and Understanding at the Robert Bosch Stiftung
Chair of the Steering Committee of the European Fund for the Balkans
Dr. Simonida Kacarska
Founder and director of the European Policy Institute (EPI), Skopje, North Macedonia
Igor Štiks
Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Nevena Ružić
Independent Consultant, EFB fellow and member of the first beeEFB Alumni Network Board (2020-2022).