WWF Central and Eastern Europe Board

The highest decision-making body of WWF Central and Eastern Europe is the Regional Board, its members being elected from a pool of people of excellence strongly involved in and committed to the CEE region. The Board is making strategic decisions based on management recommendations made by the Regional Strategic Management Team and for all WWF-CEE legal entities. We are honoured to present the members of the WWF Central and Eastern Europe Board.
Sasha Bezuhanova, Chairperson, left a 20-year executive career at Hewlett-Packard to devote herself to supporting social prosperity through innovation, education and collaboration by means of such organisations and initiatives such as MOVE.BG.
Jean-Paul Paddack, Deputy Chairperson, is Executive Director of Network Development  WWF International and oversees the management of WWF’s offices in the Pacific, China, Korea, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean.
Andrea Johanides, Chairperson of Finance Committee, has been CEO of WWF-Austria since 2013, and before that head of finance from 2005. Before coming to WWF, she held a number of finance controller positions in various private sector companies.

Katalin Szomolányi, until recently headed Corporate Sustainability at Magyar Telekom, leads Planet Fanatics, a network of experts working to realise sustainability projects

Viktor Halasiuk is a Ukrainian economist, currently serving as the president of the Ukrainian Association for the Club of Rome, CEO of the KIEF Academy, a board member at the Kyiv International Economic Forum (KIEF) and an associate fellow at the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS).
Caroline Tsilikounas is the current CEO of WWF Belgium. She is a cross-sector, strategic and analytical international development professional with more than 20 years in specialized financial services, SMEs capacity building, investor relations, economic development, and emerging markets
Boris Strečanský was active in the student movement in Slovakia in 1989 and his professional work was focused on civil society development and its resourcing. He co-initiated the process of development of community foundations in Slovakia. In 2002 he co-founded the Center for Philanthropy - a philanthropy infrastructure and donor advisory non-profit  to activate domestic resources for civil society.

Miroslav Kundrata is one of Czechia's leading environmentalists, founder and long-time CEO of Czechia's leading environmental foundation. He has expertise in the environmental sciences and in climate adaptation as well as in institution building, implementing environmental policies and designing environmental grant schemes or campaigns. 

Violeta Ciurel has more than 25 years of experience as a top executive in the insurance industry in different countries within ING Group and AXA Group. Violeta is recognized as an influencer in the insurance industry and business overall in Romania and appeared in the top 50 most influential Women Forbes Romania (2012 and 2013), and the top 100 most powerful women in business (2012), among others.