WCN Europe Steering Committee
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The European Steering Committee of the international network provides vision in international strategic planning in cooperation with Member Organisations and Active Individuals. The European Steering Committee is composed of the European members of the Global Steering Committee of World Carfree Network and serves for World Carfree Network Europe o.s. (WCN Europe), a Czech registered NGO. For inquiries or comments related to the overall work of the Steering Committee, please contact the current International Coordination Centre liaison to the Steering Committee.
 Milan Boriæ spent 20 years working at a State Bank before dedicating himself to urbanism and cycling following the collapse of many banks in the former Yugoslavia as a result of the economic transition and international sanctions. He first worked at the Institute for Urbanism and Housing, later as assistant on a study of the bikepath network in Belgrade. He has been with World Carfree Network member Yugo Cycling Campaign for seven years, has traveled with and co-organised several bike tours (Ecotopia Biketour, etc.), and has helped organise the "Bike Fest" and World Carfree Day in Belgrade.
Languages: Serbian, English
Term: until 2008 AGM
 Ton Daggers is a Dutch citizen who heads the International Bicycle Consultancy. IBC is a non-profit organisation that provides expertise for projects related to non-motorised transport and bicycles. Currently he is coordinating the project "MOVILIZATION, keeping cities accessible by promoting cycling" and recently coordinated "Integration of Cycling in the traffic planning of European and Latin American Cities, an interactive program on knowledge exchange," both financed by the European Commission (URB-AL). An anthropologist holding a Masters Degree in Social Geography, since graduation he has been involved in projects to study and promote non-motorised transport and cycling in developing countries. Ton has a special interest in Latin America.
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Term: until 2008 AGM
 Simon Field is an analyst for a specialist railway consultancy, having recently completed a Masters in Transport Planning and Policy at Newcastle University. His research project examined the use of economic instruments and personal carbon allowances to reduce carbon emissions from transport. He is actively involved in the development of the World Carfree Network's Carfree Area Pilot Project, and is treasurer of the British research and lobbying group Carfree UK.
Languages: English
Term: until 2009 AGM
 Justin Hyatt, a US citizen, raised in Germany, has worked more than six years on environmental, social and transport issues in Budapest, Hungary (Amnesty International, Indymedia, Hungarian Young Greens). Within the Hungarian Young Greens (ZöFi), a WCN member orgnanization, he established the transportation working group, which puts out a Hungarian language regional version of Carbusters magazine. In 2006 Justin wrote a guidebook on sustainable mobility for municipalities, delivered on a bicycle tour through Bulgaria and Turkey. In June of 2007 he joined staff at the World Carfree Network, to work on Carbusters magazine and network coordination. Justin is currently the International Coordination Center Liaison to the Steering Committee.
Languages: English, German, Hungarian, Bulgarian
Term: until 2008 AGM
 Susanna Iraci is an Italian designer whose work is mainly focused on services for sustainable mobility services. After spending some years at the Design for Sustainability Section of Delft Technical University, the Netherlands, she returned to Italy, where she cooperates with the regional commitee of Legambiente, the largest italian environmental NGO. Within the association, she is coordinating together with her colleagues the activities of the Laboratory for Sustainable Mobility, serving as a tool for activists in organizing actions and designing alternatives. She has done research on bike and car sharing services in the last years, with a special interest for islands, which is why she lives on one today.
Languages: Italian, English, French, Dutch, Danish, German
Term: until 2008 AGM
 Meltem Parlak is a young Turkish urban planner, based in Istanbul. She was one of the organisers of the "Towards Carfree Cities VII" Conference in Istanbul in 2007 and is currently working on a cultural project for the 2010 Istanbul European Cultural Capitol committee.
Languages: English, Turkish
Term: until 2009 AGM
 Ivanka Zasheva is a veterinary medicine student in Stara Zagora, who was born and lives in Sofia. She has five years of volunteer facilitation and coordinating campaigns in Za Zemiata related to sustainable transport and waste management in nature parks, among other things. Working on bicycle campaigns, she is now member of a new organization called Bike Evolution. She spent some time working in a rescue center for wild animals from the Green Balkans in Stara Zagora. The last four years she has been working as a bicycle messenger.
Languages: Bulgarian, English
Term: until 2009 AGM
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