Coordinating Collective (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.
The following people make our up current CC:
Renata Avila
Human rights lawyer and digital rights expert. Avila sits on the Board of Creative Commons and is a trustee of the Courage Foundation.
Rosemary Bechler
Mainsite editor of openDemocracy. Notable works: Unbounded Freedom and a compilation of the Convention on Modern Liberty.
Noam Chomsky
American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT.
Lorenzo Marsili
Writer, political activist and cofounder of European Alternatives and Naked Punch magazine.
Gianna Merki
Conflict mediator, proofreader and translator, Human Rights & Migration editor at Politheor. Collaborated with Amnesty International and with NGOs in Lisbon, Belgrade and Prishtina.
Eirini Mitsiou
Single mother, active in local government, involved in education policy issues, educated in music and fine art, feminist
Ivana Nenadovic
Production manager, executive producer, tour manager and assistant director at National Theatre Belgrade
Yanis Varoufakis
Economist. Former Greek finance minister and Member of the Hellenic Parliament. DiEM25 co-founder.
Ex Officio members of the Coordinating Collective
The CC appoints several people to assist its work.
Communications
Luis Martín
(Communications Coordinator)
Journalist and political scientist based in Spain. luis.martin@nulldiem25.org
Davide Castro
(Social Media Coordinator)
Communications professional with a soft spot for social media. Based in Belgium.
Mehran Khalili
(Communications Adviser)
Does political communications and photojournalism. Based in Greece – a beautiful country that’s having a tough time.
Administration
Relations
Fotini Bakadima
(Secretarial Coordinator)
Multilingual Greek with degrees in History, International Relations and Musicology. Currently completing a fourth BA in Classics.
David Adler
(Liaison with European Spring, the Progressive International and Advisory Panel)
Writer, researcher, and policy analyst
Volunteers
Judith Meyer
(Volunteers Coordinator)
Polyglot, computational linguist (MA) and author of several books and online courses on language-learning.
Erik Edman
(Internal Communications Coordinator)
Political activist and Euro-bubble professional. erik.edman@nulldiem25.org
