Meet the ESSA 2023 Judges!
The panel is selected based on their strong experience in social service management, planning, funding, provision and research. The composition of the judging panel aims to reflect the diversity of the ESN community by achieving a balance of gender, countries, areas of social services, sectors, levels of government, seniority, and expertise of the theme.
The panel scores the applications which forms the shortlist for each category.
- Analyst, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
- Director, Ernst & Young
- Assistant Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Vice General Director, City of Bruges, Belgium; Chair, European Social Network
- International Expert in Inequality and Early Childhood Care and Education
- Chair, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), United Kingdom
- Director, National Foundation for Civil Society Development, Croatia
- Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Head of EU Affairs, Edenred
- General Director,Regional Rittmeyer Institute for the Blind, Trieste, Italy
- Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring (Child Poverty and Gender Equality), UNICEF
- Policy Coordinator, European Network on Independent Living
- Professor of Applied Health Research, Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent, England
- Senior Social Protection Consultant, World Bank.
- Co-Founder/ Co-CEO, VM Partners Integrating Health and Care
- Assistant Head of Social Policy, City Office for Social Protection and Persons with Disabilities, City of Zagreb, Croatia