Our team
The APD covers a broad range of topics and brings together more than 100 experts who work in the APD's fields. The management of the regional expert advisory working groups and the overarching policy dialogue is only made possible through its dedicated, competent and diverse team. The cooperation between the management team and the key specialists is what makes this complex project so successful.
Contact persons at Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group (SWG) of South Eastern Europe
Boban Ilic
SWG Secretary General
Bogdanka Leveska Gjorshoska
Senior Project Manager
Working groups on Wine and Sustainable Forest Management
Darko Konjevic
Senior Project Manager/Policy Advisor
Working groups on Soil/Regional Soil Partnership, Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Agricultural Policy Monitoring
Dusan Neskovic
Policy Advisor/Regional Coordinator
Working groups on Organic Agriculture and AKIS
Ivan Tasev
Project Manager
Working group on Rural Women & Youth
Damjan Velkov
Junior Project Manager
Support to the working group on Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture
Contact persons at IAK Agrar Consulting GmbH
Stanimira Penkova
International Coordinator
Peggy Günther
Project Manager
Contact person at GFA Consulting Group GmbH, General Agent for the Bilateral Cooperation Programme of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Tilman Reinhardt
Project Manager
The working groups are accompanied by the following key experts:
Wine
Berthold Seitz
Darko Jaksic, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Belgrade
Organic Agriculture
Toralf Richter, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL (until the end of 2023 Mareike Brandt)
Branislav Raketic, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, Republic of Serbia
Soil/Regional Soil Partnership
Christian Wiese, Environmental Agency District of Stendal
Dragana Vidojevic, Serbian Environmental Protection Agency
AKIS
Ingeborg Bauer, before Staatliche Führungsakademie für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten FüAk
Charalambos Kasimis, Agricultural University of Athens
Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture
Daniel Müller, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Aleksandra Martinovska Stojcheska, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje
Agricultural Policy Monitoring
Association of Agricultural Economists
Rural Women & Youth
Judith Möllers and Tom Dufhues, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Emelj Tuna, Ana Simonovska, Ivana Janeska Stamenkoska and Marina Nacka, Association of Agricultural Economists of the Republic of North Macedonia (AAEM)
Sustainable Forest Management
Torsten Möllmann, Landesbetrieb HessenForst
Nenad Petrovic, University of Belgrade