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, until the next elections in August 2018:
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.
Orla de Díez
Orla’s research at TIDES University Institute and teaching at Jaume I University focuses on building capability for systemic change.
Lorenzo Marsili
Writer, political activist and cofounder of European Alternatives and Naked Punch magazine.
Gianna Merki
NGO Worker – Amnesty International and Academia do Futuro, Trade Policy Editor at Politheor and Translator.
Paola Pietrandrea / Marianne Dufour
Paola: linguist, author, grassroot political activist
Marianne (substitute): logistician for the French rescue services
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.
Administration
Communications
Fotini Bakadima
(Secretarial Coordinator)
Multilingual Greek with degrees in History, International Relations and Musicology. Currently completing a fourth BA in Classics.
Mehran Khalili
(Communications Adviser)
Does political communications and photojournalism. Based in Greece – a beautiful country that’s having a tough time.
Volunteers
Judith Meyer
(Volunteers Coordinator)
Polyglot, computational linguist (MA) and author of several books and online courses on language-learning.
