Our Staff

SUSAN RONA, DIRECTOR
Susan is a Hungarian born educator from Canada, and she came to Budapest in September, 1994 at the request of the Soros Foundation-Hungary. She helped to develop programs for Roma, and she was a member of a team of experts designing and implementing training programs for teachers and administrators in Hungary. After one year with the Foundation she joined EPSU as a Senior Educator. Her role with EPSU has been to support the development of educational leadership, Roma education and the development of programs for dropouts in the Soros foundationsnetwork. Susan has been director of EPSU since January, 1997.
E-mail: ronas@osi.hu

EGLE PRANCKUNIENE, VISITING FELLOW
Egle, who has been Director of the Transformation of Education Program in Lithuania came to Budapest in January, 1997 for one-year Visiting Fellowship with EPSU. Egle concentrates on assisting foundations in developing programs that aim to improve schools and educational leadership in which she has three years of experience from her work in Lithuania.
E-mail: egle@osi.hu

PETER RADO, SPECIAL ADVISOR
Peter comes to EPSU after many years of experience in education in Hungary. He has served as Director for Minority Education of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education, and is a member of the Soros Foundation-Hungary Executive Board. He works with EPSU in supporting the development of national Soros foundations' education programs to promote school success for Roma children and minority education issues.
E-mail: prado@osi.hu

HEATHER ILIFF, PROGRAM MANAGER
Heather has worked for the Soros foundations network since May 1992 when she started as a Budget Assistant at Central European University. Heather coordinated the special education project for Sarajevo from 1994-1995, and began working with EPSU when its office opened in Spring, 1995. She is responsible for assisting national foundations in strategy development, and she edits the Open Society Education Update.
E-mail: iliffh@osi.hu

NANCY GREEN, PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Nancy has worked with EPSU since June, 1995 when she was hired as a consultant to manage the Education for an Open Society Conference. She has extensive experience in Human Rights and Civics Education, and is especially interested in programs for marginalized and minority populations. She is responsible for the School Success for Roma Children priority area of EPSU.
E-mail: greenn@osi.hu

EVA BADAR, PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Eva has extensive experience in coordinating EPSU conferences and workshops as well as providing support to the School Improvement and Roma priority areas.
E-mail: badare@osi.hu

ANDREA FELD, PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Andrea is responsible for supporting the Foundation Strategy and Instructional Improvement priority areas by organizing study visits and monitoring requests from national foundations. She also maintains the EPSU web pages, databases and mailing lists.
E-mail: felda@osi.hu

Please feel free to contact any members of the EPSU team for further information.