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Heidi Hautala, co-president

Heidi Hautala, President

Heidi Hautala is the Finnish Green Minister for International Development. Previously, she was a Member of the European Parliament, where she chaired the Subcommittee on Human Rights. Heidi is also a former member of the Finnish national Parliament for the Finish Green League, and closely connected to the Finnish Green political foundation Visio. Her work is dedicated to promoting environmental responsibility, openness of politics and global justice. 

 

Pierre Jonckheer, co-president

Pierre Jonckheer, President

Pierre Jonckheer was member of the European Parliament from 1999-2009 and Vice-President of the Greens/EFA Group between 2001-2009. After 18 years as member of Parliament and having been active in Ecolo since 1986, Pierre is now retired from the daily political life. He is currently deeply involved in the Foundation's activities, and at the same time, he teaches European affairs at the University of Louvain (UCL). Pierre is an Honorary Senator of Belgium. 

 

Juan Behrend, Member of the Board

Juan Behrend

Juan Behrend is the former secretary general of the European Green Party and prior to that of the Green Group in the European Parliament. His international political career started in Argentina. Juan played a decisive role in the set-up of the Green European Foundation and of the Global Greens' Coordination. 
Anne de Boer, member of the board

Anne de Boer

Anne de Boer is a former Board member of the European Greens and served as the European Federation of Green Parties' Secretary General from 1995-1996. Anne has coordinated a lot of his work with the European Green Party's  East-West Dialogue.

Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni is Co-President of the European Green Party. From 1999 to 2009 she was Member of the European Parliament (from 2004 Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group) - in a truly European way: once for the Wallonian, once for the Italian Greens. In her work for GEF she will focus on training and capacity building and the future of Green politcal thought in Southern Europe.
Ralf Fücks, member of the board

Ralf Fücks

Ralf Fücks is co-president of the German Heinrich Böll Stiftung, coordinating the foundation's work on sustainability, migration and European integration. The long-established member of the German Greens has been contributing to discussions on a Green future far beyond the world-wide network of the Böll foundation, including numerous publications on Green issues.
Susanne Rieger, member of the board

Susanne Rieger

Susanne Rieger has been responsible for European issues and European relations in the Catalan Green foundation Fundacio Nous Horitzons (FNH) for the past eight years. Since 2009, she is also member of the Board of FNH. She has been delegate to the GEF General Assembly since the founding of GEF. From a professional point of view, Susanne has been dealing with issues of political education, capacity building, political and public discussions and communication structures on the European level for the past twenty years.

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National Green foundations, the Green Group in the European Parliament and the European Green Party are GEF's main stakeholders. National Green foundations are active in engaging citizens in political dialogue in their respective national contexts. Our European level stakeholders are partners in creating a European-wide Green debate. GEF aims to be a platform for exchange and co-operation at European level. Highlighting some of our partner foundations' news and events is a first step in enhancing this network and enabling exchange.
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