Meet the New Global PB Board Members

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We are delighted to welcome new members of our Global Participatory Budgeting (PB) Boards! 17 government leaders, civil society advocates, and researchers from 15 countries are joining our global program to grow PB. We received nearly 60 applications from exceptional PB leaders in 24 countries. The new board members will work to improve PB practice and impacts, and advance research that addresses practical needs. 

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Welcome to the new board members, who will join the dozens of other PB leaders who have served on the boards since 2019:

PB Practitioner Board

The PB Practitioner Board guides work to improve PB practice and impacts.

  • Svetlana Alenitskaya, Federal Agency for Civic Education | Königswinter, Germany

  • Alisa Aliti Vlasic, MOSAIC | Dubrovnik, Croatia

  • Emiliano Arena,  Argentine Association for Participatory Democracy | Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Antoine Bézard, lesbudgetsparticipatifs.fr | Paris, France

  • Leonid Donos, Association for communities participatory development | Poltava, Ukraine

  • Jules Dumas Nguebou, African Alliance for Participatory Budgeting | Yaounde, Cameroun

  • Aleksandra Ilijin, Novi Sad European Youth Capital - OPENS | Novi Sad, Serbia

  • Kayla Knight, Participatory Budgeting Project | Boston, United States

  • Eliza Meriabe, Nalotuesha Indigenous Women Organisation | Nairobi, Kenya

  • David Reilly, Scottish Government | Glasgow, Scotland

  • Malin Loiske Svanberg, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) | Stockholm, Sweden

PB Research Board

The PB Research Board coordinates global research on PB and its impacts. 

  • Jared Abbott, Tulane University, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research | New Orleans, United States

  • Jaroslav Dvorak, Klaipeda University | Klaipeda, Lithuania

  • Pauliina Lehtonen, Tampere University | Tampere, Finland

  • Jarosław Olejniczak, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business | Wroclaw, Poland

  • Renato Rojas Dall'Orso, OLLIN, JOVENES EN MOVIMIENTO A.C. | Mexico City, Mexico

  • Maggie Shum, University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, United States

Read more about the board members below.