Speakers for this event

• Iryna Shchoka

  Iryna Shchoka

  Sustainable Tourism and Youth Education Expert

  I am a creative and experienced project manager, tried and tested economist, dedicated to her job. I started my career at the UniCreditBank Ukraine in 2002 as an economist and finished in 2011 as a branch office head. In 2006 I coordinated for the Ukrainian NGO FORZA a Cluster analysis of the forest sector of the Carpathian region of Ukraine which also included sustainable tourism and local communities wellbeing issues, supported SMEs in marketing and in state-private partnership activities, implemented climate change mitigation and adaptation measures project. Since 2013 I implemented the project “Cross-Road Connections” which aimed to improve of environmental situation of small Ukrainian cities and educated adults and teenagers. From 2012 until the end of 2014 I worked as a project manager and developer at the “Agency of Regional Development and Cross-Border Co-operation “Transcarpathia” of Zakarpattya Oblast Council”. At the European Wilderness Society I am focusing my work on Youth Education in the Carpathians as well as assisting in other European projects. I am also the focal point for our Ukrainian European Wilderness Network partners. I am fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English, Hungarian, Slovakian and started to learn the German language.

  Sustainable Tourism and Youth Education Expert

• Max A E Rossberg

  Max A E Rossberg

  Chairman of the European Wilderness Society

  Max Rossberg gained his international marketing expertise by graduating with a Bachelor in Commerce in International Business and a Master of Management Science in International Marketing at the Sprot School of Business at the Carleton University, Canada. He then joined after his graduation international corporations in Germany, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Canada and Ireland. As the chairman of the European Wilderness Society he is based in UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Lungau in the Austrian Alps, from where he works and travel throughout Europe.

  URL https://wilderness-society.org/the-european-wilderness-society-team/max-e-rossberg/

  Chairman of the European Wilderness Society

• Nataliia Gudkova

  Nataliia Gudkova

  Associated Professor, State Ecological Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management

  Associated Professor, State Ecological Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management

• Vlado Vancura

  Vlado Vancura

  Vice-chairman of the European Wilderness Society

  Vlado Vancura gained his international nature and forestry expertise by graduating from the Forest University and Natural Resources Management, in Zvolen, Slovakia. In the following several decades he collected extensive experience with Wilderness and natural resources management all across the world. He worked in numerous nature oriented jobs as a full time, seasonal or free lance consultant in Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, United States with the U.S. National Park Service and in Canada with Parks Canada. As the deputy chairman of the European Wilderness Society he is based in the Slovakian part of Carpathian Mountains, right at the edge of the famous Tatras National Park. His enthusiasm motivate various groups and stakeholders to contribute to the protection of European Wilderness Heritage and encourage them to become a Wilderness Advocate.

  Vice-chairman of the European Wilderness Society