Veronika Móra has been working at Ökotárs-Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation since 1997 and has held the position of the director since 2007. Earlier, she was the national consultant for the Dutch foundation Milieukontakt Oosteuropa, but also worked for the eco- counselling office of Ecoservice Foundation. With Ökotárs and earlier, she’s been working on a variety of issues related to ecological consumption, gene technologies and public participation. Since 2003 she’s been leading Ökotárs’s Civil Partner program aiming to improve the legal- fiscal environment of civil society, but she also gained experience in managing and overseeing grant programs of various sizes, not least the Hungarian Civil Society Fund under the EEA/Norwegian Financial Grants and the EU-funded Our Union Values Programme. Besides her full-time occupation she also had voluntary positions in a number of NGOs: currently she is the co-president of the European Civic Forum. She is a biologist (MSc) by education, but also has a MA degree in organisational psychology, and more recently gained a diploma in environmental law.