The International Board of ELSA
Vice President Academic Activies - Ezgi Kilinc
Vice President Seminars & Conferences - Paolo Amorosa
Vice President Student Trainee Exchange Program - Elif Yildirim
President - Oscar Lema Bouza
Secretary General - Filipe Bismarck
Director for Financial Management - Olga Sendetska
Vice President Marketing - Laurits Ketscher
Directors of ELSA International
The International Board works together with a number of appointed directors who are responsible for specific areas of activity in ELSA. These are students who work several hours a day from their homes, also on a voluntary basis. Together we form the International Team of ELSA.
Director for Training - Ana Vouk
My name is Ana Vouk and throughout this year, I will be working as the Director for training in ELSA International. I live and study in a small town called Ljubljana in Slovenia and it was right in my hometown where I fell in love with the possibilities of 'International Trainers Pool'. After participating in trainings, given to my local group, I began to see how much knowledge and experience the trainers in ELSA can provide to an individual or a group. Four months later, I was appointed and will hopefully be able to help the groups in the Network by finding the perfect trainer for them.
Apart from being a director, I am also active in my recently re-established national group as a treasurer. My NG is my personal example how ITP trainings can help officers to overcome their difficulties and give someone like me the motivation to became a director for training.
Director for the Student Trainee Exchange Programme - Annamari Männikkö
My name is Annamari Männikkö and I study at the University of Lapland, situated in Rovaniemi, Finland. When I was accepted to study law in 2006, my friend recommended that I take part in ELSA activities. Even though I did not know much about the association, I was immediately very interested in its vision and international scope, which has during the years so far, led to my working as a Director for Student Trainee Exchange Programme. Through the term in office, I will work as a shadow for the Vice President of STEP, and help him in as many ways as I can.
My stepping stone to become a director has been my involvement within STEP in local and national level. I started in ELSA Rovaniemi, continued in ELSA Finland and now, after all the memorable international meetings and the constantly growing knowledge in STEP, I am able work at the international level. I consider STEP to be an opportunity for students and young lawyers to gain professional and social skills in international environment, which is certainly an educative and unforgettable experience they would value in the future.
ELSA has been a strong part of my life as a student, and it has given me the experiences and lasting friendships that will stay with me in the future. I am very proud to say, that from the very first step of my studies till the very end, I have been able to be a part of ELSA and to make my mark on STEP.
Director for ELSA Moot Court Competition - Morten Rydningen
My name is Morten Rydningen. I am born and raised in a small city in the far north of Norway called Harstad. I study law at the University of Oslo, but are currently living in Marbella, Spain.
I became active in ELSA after a study visit on Human Rights to Strasbourg, where I realized that ELSA is an organisation which really offers a lot to its members. The strength of ELSA is the international aspects which you can’t find in any other organisations.
I have been a member of ELSA since I joined the university, and since my first board position I have always been working as Vice President Academic Activities. I have had the pleasure to be VPAA of the International Board 2008/2009.
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Director for the International Focus Programme - Nina Prantl
ELSA for me is a unique network, a great opportunity for law students to learn more than usually taught at university and a chance to develop oneself. I am involved in ELSA since my first day of studies and I don’t rue one second of this time. I started my career as Vice President for Seminars and Conferences in my local group ELSA Passau in 2006. In my second year I was the president. During the first international meeting I attended, I was so much fascinated by the ELSA network and the work on the international level that I decided to run for the position of Vice President for Seminars and Conferences of ELSA Germany. Therefore I worked fulltime for ELSA last year in the office of ELSA Germany in Heidelberg.
Now I am back at university in Passau, but even after three years in ELSA I do not want to end my ELSA time. I am happy to work now on the international level as the Director for the International Focus Programme (IFP). The International Focus Programme shows the strength of our network, when ELSA groups all over Europe are concentrating on one hot legal topic. At the moment this topic is Intellectual Property law. This year will be an important IFP year, because the current IFP topic is outrunning and the network will vote upon the next topic. My task as Director for IFP is to support groups, who are organizing IFP events, especially ELSA Munich, which will host the Final IFP Conference. Furthermore, I will work on the Final IFP publication. Another important task for me will be to prepare the next IFP topic.
Thanks to ELSA, Europe for me consists of many different faces. As a director on the international level I want to inspire as many students as possible for the internationality of ELSA.
Director for Advertisements - Stephanie Denowell
“You cannot explain it, you have to experience it”. Those words make me active in ELSA. And the one who told me those words was right. I have been active in ELSA for three years. I started basically at the local level in my University in Mainz. After only few months I wanted to be involved in ELSA and became President of my local group – ELSA Mainz. After a year I got even more motivated and wanted to be even more involved and became President of ELSA Germany. I worked one year fulltime for ELSA. And now I reached the international level. After this term I certainly know what ELSA is about and if someone asks me to explain ELSA I would use the same words as I was told a few years ago.
I am 23 years old and I was born and raised in a small town in western Germany. I moved to Mainz to start my studies as a law student. Right now I'm starting the 4th year of my studies and ELSA is still with me. In my spare time I love to go jogging, meet up with friends or to go to the theater. I am also interested in music, politics, books and ELSA.
As the director for Advertisements my main focus is to keep in touch with our advertisers and getting in touch with interested new ones. I am presenting ELSA and our partnership possibilities to externals.
I hope we can continue the quality of our advertisements sales and make ELSA even more popular to externals and at the same time keep our members informed of their career opportunities once graduated.
