PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Trust for Civil Society in Central & Eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland (08/2002 - present)
Program Associate

International Policy Fellowship 2002/2003 (01/2002 - 03/2003)
Research fellowship in media policy by Open Society Institute and Central European University

Freelance Interpreting and Translation (06/1994 - 04/2002)

Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia (10/2000 - 11/2001)
Project Manager, Law Program and Public Administration Program

Radio Twist, Glasgow/Bratislava, UK/Slovakia (10/1999 - 06/2000)
UK News Correspondent

EDUCATION:
University of Glasgow, Faculty of Social Sciences (1999 - 2000)
Department of Central and East European Studies, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Master of Philosophy / Russian and East European Studies
Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (1998 - 1999)
Master of Arts / International Relations and European Studies
Open Society Foundation Scholarship

Academia Istropolitana Nova, Svätý Jur, Slovakia (1997-1998)
One-Year Postgraduate Programme / European Studies
Academia Istropolitana Nova Scholarship

Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia (1992-1997)
Magister / English and Italian Studies, Translation – Interpreting

Padua University, Faculty of Arts, Padua, Italy (01 - 07/1995)
Scholarship of the Italian Government, Language Course at Perugia University, Italy, 06/1994
 
PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS:
Media Policies in Poland & Slovakia: Policy Paper
Final IPF Policy Paper with Recommendations (March 2003)

Media Policies in Poland & Slovakia: Research Paper
Final IPF Research Paper (March 2003)

The Quality of Democracy: Learning from the Candidates?
Article published by the EU Accession Monitoring Program at www.eumap.org
Call for Papers: Keeping an Eye on Government: Independent Monitoring (November 2002)

Media Policies in Italy & United Kingdom
Interim IPF Policy Research Paper (September 2002)

Media and Democracy in Slovakia
M. Phil. Dissertation, University of Glasgow (September 2000)
Quoted in Jan Čulík & Tomáš Pecina, “V hlavních zprávách: Televize” (On Breaking News: Television), (Prague: ISV & Britské listy, 2001)

Slovakia After Mečiar (?): Development of the Slovak Party System
Public lecture at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow (February 2000)

Development of Ethnopolitical Parties in Italy & Slovakia
M.A. Dissertation, Central European University, Budapest (June 1999)

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS:
EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Warsaw, Poland (02/2003)
Stefan Batory Foundation and Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

9th Central & East European Fundraising Workshop, Budapest, Hungary (02/2003)
Civil Society Development Foundation (CSDF) and Resource Alliance

7th Annual Meeting of the Grantmakers East Group, Moscow, Russia (10/2002)
European Foundation Centre (EFC)

From Recipient to Donor: Opportunities for Development Policy, Warsaw, Poland (10/2002)
Department for International Development (DFID)

2nd Czech National Foundation Conference, Prague, Czech Republic (09/2002)
Czech Donors Forum  

Conference on Social Diplomacy, Warsaw, Poland (06/2002) 
Stefan Batory Foundation

Media Law, Media Freedom and Media Policy, Florence, Italy (05/2002)
European University Institute (EUI)

Reuters Journalism Course, London, UK (05/2002)
Reuters

Colloquium on Clinical Legal Education, Riga, Latvia (10/2001)
Public Interest Law Initiative of Columbia Law School (PILI) and Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI)

Stimulating Public Debate on the EU Accession Process, Budapest, Hungary (08/2001)
EU Accession Monitoring Program at the Open Society Institute

Refugee Law Legal Clinics Training, Piešťany, Slovakia (06/2001)
United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR)

EU Accession Monitoring of Independence of Judiciary, Bratislava, Slovakia (03/2001)
Organised roundtable discussion on preliminary monitoring report.
EU Accession Monitoring Program at the Open Society Institute

Transparency of Legislative Process, Bratislava, Slovakia (03/2001)
National Council of the Slovak Republic (NR SR)

Implementation of the Freedom of Information Act in CEECs, Bratislava, Slovakia (10/2000)
Organised seminar with international participation.
Open Society Foundation (OSF)

Regional Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Senec, Slovakia (10/2000)
Public Interest Law Initiative of Columbia Law School (PILI) and Citizen and Democracy - Minority Rights Group

Scottish Rotary Club Meetings, Scotland, UK (10/1999 – 06/2000)
Paper presented at 13 Rotary Clubs: Slovak History and Current Politics

Institute of Central and East European Studies Seminar Series, Glasgow, Scotland (02/2000)
Paper presented: Slovakia After Mečiar (?): Development of the Slovak Party System
Institute of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

1st Annual SCEES Conference , Burn House, Scotland, UK (11/1999)
School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

Rethinking Identities: State, Nation, Culture, Columbia University, New York, USA (04/1999)
Invited to present paper at the 4th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

Seminar on the EU: Institutions, Decision-Making, Policies, Maastricht, the Netherlands (05/1998)
European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)

SKILLS:
Languages: Fluent in English, Italian, Polish & Slovak (native); Working knowledge in Czech & German
Computers: MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, Internet & Database Research Systems (EBSCO, BIDS, Collection of Law)

MEMBERSHIP:
Steering Committee of the Grantmakers East Group (GEG), European Foundation Centre (EFC)
Slovak Foreign Policy Assocation (SFPA)
Central European University Alumni & Friends Association
British Alumni Society

HOBBIES:
Enjoy travelling, fine arts, architecture, books, swimming and yoga