Associate Experts
Prospect works with a number of Associate Experts that are either regular experts in our projects and/or working through Prospect on long-term assignments. They are based either in Brussels, in their own countries or on mission. In addition Prospect also supports the Astrale Life Team experts working for the Central Team.
Please find a list of our current Associate Experts below (alphabetical order by family name):
Isabel Maria Martins Santos e SILVA
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Julia has a BSc. and an MSc. in bio-engineering from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (2003 and 2006).She also has a certificate in Project Cycle Management (2008). Her expertise covers carbon balance and energy issues, the development of project tenders, and co-ordination of international expert teams
Julia worked as a ProjectManager at Prospect from Januray 2007 until November 2010. In that time she contributed to a number of key projects, including: the development of a carbon emissions measurement methodology for the Belgian Technical Co-operation (2008-2009), a similar methdology forthe Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010) and a project for EACI that developed an inventory of tools and guidebooks covered by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme (2008).
Julia is Belgian and speaks French, Spanish, Italian and English.
Adriana CRACIUN
Adriana holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Bucharest, Romania (1994) and a Masters of Science degree in Training from the University of Leicester, UK (2003). She has certificates in Managing an Environmental Organisation from USAID, (1997 & 1998), in Training the Trainer from the Directory of Social Change, UK (1999); and the European Train the Trainer – Integrated Environmental Assessment from UNEP (2007). Adriana is a skilled project manager and trainer with more than 15 years experience and has extensive know-how in fundraising, project design and implementation.
Adriana is currently the Co-ordinator for LIFE-INF and LIFE-TCY projects in the Astrale Central Team.
Previously Adriana has worked as Senior Project Manager at the Regional Environmental Center in Hungary (1995-2008) and was National Co-ordinator for the Small Grants Programme of the Global Environmental Fund in Romania (2008). She is experienced in monitoring, auditing and evaluation of projects; establishing expert evaluation teams and setting evaluation criteria. Adriana is also a trainer with experience in designing and delivering training sessions mainly in project and organisational management, for both for profit and non-profit sectors, as well as a facilitator for stakeholder dialogue and organisational change.
Adriana is Romanian and speaks Romanian, English and French.
Peter KARSCH
Peter has an Engineering Degree in Environment Sciences, as well as a Certificate in Environment Business Administration. His fields of expertise are clean technologies, life-cycle thinking and the renewable energy
Peter is in charge of monitoring LIFE-ENV Dutch speaking projects (Belgium and Netherlands).
Peter has a sound and broad technical knowledge of sustainable production and consumption issues. He has over 10 years experience in carrying out and managing complex environmental projects.
Peter is from The Netherlands and speaks Dutch and English.
Zsuzsanna KOCSIS-KUPER
Zsuzsanna has a Law Degree (ELTE University, 1996), a Masters Degree in European Environmental Management (University of Amsterdam, 1997) and a Masters Degree in Environmental Law (ELTE University, 1999). She is a candidate for a Ph.D in environmental law at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. Her fields of expertise are European and international environmental law.
Zsuzsanna is in charge of the monitoring of LIFE-ENV Hungarian and Slovakian projects since 2004.
Her professional activity mainly covers management of complex environmental projects, with a focus on IPPC and waste management; research (climate change, IPPC, access to information, environmental liability) and teaching in several universities.
Zsuzsanna is from Hungary, she speaks Hungarian and English.
Jean-Paul HERREMANS
After a Masters degree in Biology (1978), Jean Paul undertook a Ph.D. in Botanical Sciences, Nature Conservation and Management (2003). Both obtained from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His fields of expertise are biodiversity restoration and managing, communication in environment and the monitoring and evaluation of projects.
In 2000, Jean-Paul started his first collaboration with Prospect by contributing to the set-up of a feasibility study for the restoration and development of the Sutjeska National Park in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is a member of the monitoring team for the LIFE Nature projects in the Benelux countries.
He worked at the Inter-Environnement Wallonie as an expert on issues such as the integration of the environment in rural development policy and Environmental Education. From 1990 to 1999 Jean-Paul was General Secretary of RNOB (Réserves Naturelles et Ornithologiques de Belgique); where among other tasks he set-up and coordinated acquisition programmes of land in Special Protection and Natura 2000 areas. A part of his career has involved research and teaching within the Department of Botany of the Faculty of Sciences of the Brussels Free University.
Jean-Paul is Belgian and speaks French, Dutch and English.
Michel HOUSSIAU
Michel is an engineer in agronomy by training, specialized in environment and pollution, holding a degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (1978). Michel’s fields of expertise are air quality, water quality and environmental follow-up and control systems.
With more than 20 years of professional experience, Michel was the first external collaborator of Prospect. Since 1995, he is an associate expert for the implementation of contracts for the European Commission related to air quality. Michel is also providing expert input in projects on the water quality sector.
As Team leader, he coordinated the RANSMO project in Bosnia-Herzegovina aiming to set-up an environment monitoring system for the whole country. The proposed scheme was endorsed by the Government of the two concerned entities; what can be recognized as a major success. Michel also worked for Prospect on a similar project in Albania.
Michel is Belgian and speaks French and English.
Carol-Henri MAJEROWICZ
Carol is an engineer in agronomy by training, holding a degree specializing in tropical agronomy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1985). His fields of expertise are: administrative decentralization, rural and sustainable development, support to local organizations and administrations.
Carol has been working on several assignments for Prospect, more recently in the frame of the EuropeAid Framework Contract – Lot 1: “Rural development and Food security”, he acted as Team leader and expert for the set-up of an Agricultural Development Fund in Madagascar.
Carol has worked in Africa since 1986 where he can demonstrate some 20 years of strong experience in the field of communal and local development, the support to agricultural professional organizations and in environment protection related issues.
Carol is Belgian, he speaks French.
Christina MAROULI
Christina has an interdisciplinary educational background, with a B.A. in Biochemistry (Brandeis University, USA, 1983), an M.A. in Environmental Policy (Tufts University, USA, 1986), an M.A. in Sociology (1988) and a PhD in Sociology (1992), with an emphasis on urban space and environment and on social inequalities, both from the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (1992). Her fields of expertise are environmental education and management, environmental sociology and urban environment and waste management.
Christina has been working with Prospect since 2001, monitoring LIFE projects in Greece and Cyprus.
She has more than 15 years experience in the environmental field. As a university Professor, she is charged among others of the courses on environmental education. She has also worked with women’s and children’s NGOs as environmental expert and as Director.
Christina is Greek and speaks Greek, English and French.
Yael MEROZ
Yael has a BA in Political Sciences and Middle East History from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1998) and an MA in Environment, Development and Policy from the University of Sussex, UK (2000). In 2007 she was awarded her PhD in Technology and Economics of Sustainable Development from the University of Foggia, Italy. Her fields of expertise are environmental policy analysis, assessment of water and environmental problems and multilateral environmental agreements, monitoring and evaluation of environmental projects, and strategic assessment of sustainable development initiatives.
For Prospect Yael is monitoring LIFE projects in Israel and provides backstopping services in Arabic.
She worked as foreign affairs co-ordinator within the International Relations and Special Projects Division of the Israeli Ministry of the Environment, before continuing her complementary studies which sent her to the UK and then to Italy where she works now as a freelance environmental policy consultant.
Yael has dual Italian and Israeli citizenship; she speaks Hebrew, Italian, English, Arabic and Spanish.
Katerina RAFTOPOULOU
Katerina obtained her Bachelors and Doctorate degrees in Chemical Engineering in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand (1987 and 1994). Her fields of expertise are environmental management, nature conservation, project management, business planning, communications and fundraising.
She works with Prospect as a monitor of EC-funded LIFE projects in Greece and Cyprus.
She is based in Greece since 1992 and has more than ten years of work experience, primarily as Fundraising and Communications Director, and Conservation Manager, in Greenpeace Greece and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Greece.
Katerina has both Greek and South African nationality; she speaks English, Greek and Afrikaans.
Eva ROBEN
Eva is an environmental engineer by training; she holds an MSc in Environmental and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1991) and a European Diploma in Environmental Sciences from the Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise, Belgium (1993). In addition she is a certified trainer for ProGestión (management training with a gender approach). Her expertise is in solid waste management and she has more than 10 years of experience in the management of international teams.
Eva has been an associate expert with Prospect since 2005. She was the LIFE TCY co-ordinator, Deputy Team Leader, from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the LIFE TCY monitor for Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia. In addition Eva supports Prospect in many of its waste consulting projects for Belgian Technical Co-operation.
Eva has a long career of consultancy and training in hazardous, municipal and medical solid waste management, site assessments, ToR elaboration, preparation of feasibility studies and master plans, EIA and SEA. She has implemented such projects in a wide variety of countries, including: Algeria, Bolivia, Croatia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Maldives, Rwanda, Turkey and Venezuela.
Eva is German; she speaks German, Turkish, French, Spanish and English.
Remo SAVOIA
Remo has a degree in Political Sciences from La Sapienza University, Rome. In 2008 he earned a Ph.D. from Corvinus University, Budapest; with a thesis on Environmental Policy Integration in the European Union.
Remo is Deputy Co-ordinator for the LIFE Nature Programme within the Astrale Life team and in-charge of waster, eco-innovation, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects for Prospect. From 2000 to 2004 he worked as a consultant in Hungary for and Italian consulting company and from 2004 to 2010 he worked as administrator at the European Commission in DG-Environment, dealing with the LIFE/LIFE+ Programme.
His fields of expertise are eco-innovation, environmental policy integration, wast, energy efficiency and renewables. In addition to this, he successfully completed the course on Certified Associate in Project Management - organised by the Project Management Institute and the European Commission. Furthermore, he was part of the Project Management - Community of Practice within the EC.
Within his academic activities he wrote several scientific publications on environmental matters and for six years was the country correspondent in Hungary for the European Environmental Law Review (Kluwer Law International). He is also a member of the Environmental Policy Board of the Hungarian European Academy of Law.
Remo is an Italian and Hungarian national; he speaks Italian, Hungarian, English and French.
Isabel Maria Martins Santos e SILVA
Isabel holds a PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, The Netherlands (1999); an MSc in Integrated Pest Management from Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon (1993) and an MSc in Biology (Fauna and Environment) from the Faculty of Sciences of the Classic University of Lisbon (1989). Her fields of expertise are nature conservation, biodiversity, biological control and pest management, scientific research, consultancy, project cycle management, research support and policy.
Isabel has joined the LIFE Prospect team in 2005 and works as Monitoring Expert of Nature projects in The Netherlands and Dutch speaking Belgium.
She has large experience as researcher in entomology and nature conservation at various universities and a NGO. She also worked as project coordinator and project manager for Dutch nature conservation NGOs.
Isabel has Dutch and Portuguese nationalities; she speaks and writes Portuguese, Dutch and English fluently and has listening and reading knowledge of French, Spanish and Italian.
Mathilde SNEL
Mathilde has a BSc in International Environmental Studies and Natural Resources Management from Rutgers University, USA (1991); an MA in Geography from the University of Colorado, USA (1993); and a PhD in Geography and Environmental monitoring from Clark University, USA (2001). Her fields of expertise are environmental monitoring and GIS.
Mathilde joined our team in 2006 and took over the LIFE-ENV monitoring portfolio of Dutch speaking projects in Netherlands and Belgium.
After a one-year stay in Indonesia dealing with environmental and conservation management, she carried on with training in GIS and environmental monitoring in the USA. She was a technical advisor for USAID in Malawi for an Environmental Monitoring Programme (1996-1999).
She is Dutch and speaks Dutch, English, French and Indonesian.
Nicolas TAVITIAN
Nicolas holds a Masters in Business and Management from Paris IX University (1987). He undertook further studies for an MSc in Environmental Management in Scotland (1989) and a Masters in Public Policy from Princeton University, USA (2000). Nicolas’ fields of expertise are the environmental policy, EU public affairs as well as civil society.
Nicolas joined Prospect C&S in 2001 as a Deputy Team Leader of the former LIFE ENV monitoring contract. He is currently Co-ordinator of the LIFE-ENV monitoring and evaluation within the Astrale Life Team.
Nicolas started his career in 1988 as a campaign co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth and became Director of Globe EU, the global parliamentarian’s organization for the environment from 1994 to 1999. From 2001, he is working as a consultant in the environmental policy sector.
Nicolas is a British and French national and speaks English, French, German, Swedish, Armenian, Italian and Spanish.
Georgia VALAORAS
Georgia studied chemistry, science education and environmentalmanagement in the United States. She carried out a D.Sc. in theWashington University in St. Louis, Missouri (1984). Her fields ofexpertise are environmental management, nature conservation,environmental science and project management.
Georgia is currently monitoring EU-funded LIFE Environment and Nature projects in Greece.
She worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1984-1989)and then left the USA to establish the national office of World WideFund for Nature in Greece (WWF-Greece), that she managed for six years(1990-1996). She has over 15 years of teaching experience at thesecondary, undergraduate and graduate levels.
Georgia is Greek and she speaks Greek, English and French.