The Bulletin 6/1: On the move

On the Move

Coming

After completing her thesis on waste management and administration at the Faculty of Law of ELTE, Budapest, HAJNALKA BENYHE joined REC Initiatives as a project coordinator. Hajnalka worked for EMLA in 1994 and has been involved with the Hungarian green movement. She will be responsible for coordinating and organizing the legal components of the different public participation projects.

CURTIS DURRANT will coordinate EGT's NGO needs assessment project. Before joining the REC, he worked as an environmental planner for the Washington State Department of Ecology in Spokane. Curtis earned his master's degree in environmental sociology from Washington State University.

BETSY HYMAN joined the EGT in March as the new grants officer. She holds a master's in Public Administration and Environmental Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle and a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from Brown University. Before coming to the REC she was working on issues pertaining to global climate change for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

SOLOMON IOANNOU joined REC Initiatives as the project coordinator for the Open and Effective Parliament project. Ioannou holds degrees from State University of New York and the University of Edinburgh. He has worked on environmental issues in Brazil, Cyprus and Belgium.

The EMTC Network welcomes ELIDA METAJ. Over the next year Elida will be responsible for the new training-the-trainers project in her home country of Albania. Elida brings three years of experience in working with government, business and NGOs on development projects there.

Going

REC bid a fond farewell to Communications Officer JEFF GAILUS. We'll be living vicariously through his summer hiking, sailing, and diving escapades. Jeff will also travel to Atlanta to cheer on his wife Karla as she "goes for the gold" on the Canadian women's basketball team at the Olympics. But we have not seen the last of Mr. Gailus, he'll reappear on the Budapest scene this fall.

Operations Support Assistant JUDIT SZIGETI left the REC Initiatives Team in May and looks forward to new challenges.

DITTA TOTH finished her work on the master landscaping plan for the new REC site in Szentendre. She will spend the summer biking from Budapest to Copenhagen before returning to the United States.

THE BULLETIN * SPRING 1996