Steering Committee

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
 

Stefan Schäfers

Director, Europe programme and International development at King Baudouin Foundation,

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Franz Karl Prüller
 

Franz Karl Prüller

Senior Advisor to the Management Board of ERSTE Foundation and Savings Bank Group in Austria

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Stefan Schäfers
 

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

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Stefan Schäfers
 

Dr. Simonida Kacarska

Founder and director of the European Policy Institute (EPI), Skopje, North Macedonia

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Stefan Schäfers
 

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

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Stefan Schäfers
 

Nevena Ružić

Independent Consultant, EFB fellow and member of the first beeEFB Alumni Network Board (2020-2022).

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