Meet our new Board!
🗳️ The Youth Forum's General Assembly has spoken. The eagerly awaited new Board for 2024-26 has been elected. But wait, there's more! Our member organisations have also elected the Financial Control Commission to keep our finances smooth and appointed the Consultative Body on Membership Applications to ensure our family grows stronger and more diverse! Curious to meet the game-changers shaping the future of the Youth Forum? 👇
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Starting July 1, 2024, the newly elected Board is in for the next two years. Their mission? Simple. They're all about fighting for youth rights and making sure young people's voices are heard loud and clear.
The Board for 2024-2026 is:
President:
- Rareș Voicu
Vice presidents:
- Andreea-Alexandra Scrioșteanu
- Giorgos Aggelos Papaioannou
Members:
- Anna Holtkamp
- Caillum Hedderman
- Natalia Kallio
- Sina Riz à Porta
- Chloë Cauchi
- Laure Verstraete
- Tom Matthew
- Sara Þöll Finnbogadóttir (Updated 22/11/2024: elected as the 11th Board member during the European Youth Forum General Assembly in Ghent, Belgium)
Financial Control Commission
The elected FCC members are:
- Siobhán Gallagher
- Martina Tóthová
- Adam Lambe
- Katrina Lambert
Consultative Body on Membership Application
The appointed CBMA members are:
- Liv Arleth
- Selin Gürlemez
- Kristýna Jelínková
- Žiga Ciglarič
excited?
We definitely are! But here's also a BIG shoutout to our amazing current Board!
🌟 THANK YOU for dedicating yourselves to making this platform a success for young people in Europe.
🙌 Here's to both, current and new Board!
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