Coordinating Collective
The Coordinating Collective (CC) is the body tasked with directing DiEM25 across Europe and beyond, coordinating the strategy and policy of the movement, while enabling members to take the fight to the Establishment. Each year, half of the seats of the CC are open to election. The following people make up the current CC:
The 12-member Coordinating Collective (CC) coordinates all our activities. Every year, half of the seats on the CC are renewed through an election.
Nils Belliot
Worker. Personnel Representative.
Hoping to create bridges between social and climate justice.
Ivana Nenadovic
DiEM25’s Finance and Fundraising Director
Theatre producer and political activist.
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Yanis Varoufakis
MeRA25 leader
Economist. Former Greek finance minister and Member of the Hellenic Parliament. DiEM25 co-founder.
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Julijana Zita
Self-employed consultant for hospitality and events, activist and optimist.
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Julia Moore
Lecturer in Law, Politics and Social Sciences. Amateur geologist,eternal optimist.
Defne Dalkara
Lapsed biologist, economics and ecology enthusiast, part of GNDE coordination team.
Danae Stratou
Installation artist and founding member of DiEM25.
Carolina Rehrmann
Social-psychologist, singer, German-Greek, humanist, nomad of realms.
Federico Dolce
Political activist, sociologist and new media consultant.
Operations team
The CC appoints several people to assist its work. An overview of all DiEM25 hires and their job descriptions can be found here.
Judith Meyer
Head of IT
Polyglot, computational linguist (MA) and author of several books and online courses on language-learning.
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Johannes Fehr
Organising Director for Germany
Board member of MERA25 Germany, studied Renewable Energies.
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Amir Kiyaei
Policy Director
Works with our grassroots members in developing policy positions for the Movement.
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Mehran Khalili
Communications Deputy Director
Does political communications and photojournalism. Based in Greece – a beautiful country that’s having a tough time.
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Davide Castro
Acting Communications Director
Political scientist with background in communications. Based in Brussels.
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Nadia Sales Grade
International Media Relations
Media Relations and Cultural Projects Manager based in Lisbon, activist in her heart.
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Info Desk, Translations and Newsletters Coordination
Alex Wilk
Web design and front-end development