The team

Neva Nahtigal
Director
neva.nahtigal@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – SLOVENIAN – CROATIAN – SPANISH – GERMAN – DUTCH





Marie-Jeanne Gaertner
Project & Advocacy Officer
ENGLISH – FRENCH – GERMAN

Frederick Ryan Wallace
Projects & Grant Management Officer
frederick.ryanwallace@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – SPANISH

Simone Schirru
Policy Officer - Social & Economic Policies
ENGLISH – ITALIAN – FRENCH
Board of directors
Following a very successful term for the Board of RREUSE, the Network re-elected all Board members and elected two new Board members during the RREUSE General Assembly which took place on the 17th of March 2022.

Matthias Neitsch, RepaNet, Austria
President

Antigone Dalamaga, Ecorec, Greece
Honorary President & Vice President

Laura Rubio, AERESS, Spain
Vice President
economy enterprises active in re-use and recycling. Their activities aim at social transformation and work integration of people at risk of social exclusion. Her background includes studies of Environmental Sciences and post-graduate courses on Leadership and Social Innovation and NGO management.

Giorgio Rosso, Rete 14 luglio, Italy
Secretary

Ivan Božić, Humana Nova, Croatia
Treasurer
In 2016, Ivan won the “Pride of Croatia” award due to his help in the field of employing people with disabilities.
Ivan’s hobbies include music (Radiohead), basketball and traveling.

Margriet Jongerius, BKN, The Netherlands
Founded in 1994 by secondhand shops, BKN’s mission is to support its members in representing their interests and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and information.
To help their members professionalise, BKN created a quality label called ‘100%Kringloop’. This quality label or certificate is important when interacting with governments and administrations, in particular when dealing with public tenders.

Michael Cook, Circular Communities Scotland, UK

Nesrine Dani, ENVIE, France
Since 2014, Nesrine joined the nonprofit sector working for Les Ateliers du Bocage, Adie and Envie. Nesrine is currently New projects Director for Fédération Envie, a French umbrella organisation created in 1984 and gathering 50 members dedicated to social reintegration through circular economy activities.

Jean-Marc Caudron, RESSOURCES, Belgium

Harri Niukkannen, Tramel Oy, Finland
One of Harri’s interesting personal highlights was during the 90’s: he was teaching English in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Finnish for Asylum seekers in Lappland, Finland.
For the last 20+ years, Harri has been working in the field of re-use, recycling, employment, social enterprise and other scrap/secondary material businesses.

Emma Kavanagh, CRNI, Ireland
Emma Kavanagh (she/her) is the National Executive at the Community Resources Network Ireland (CRNI). CRNI is Ireland’s only network of community-based reuse, repair and recycling organisations. Emma is a passionate storyteller with a keen interest in communicating social impact in dynamic, accessible and meaningful ways. She has dedicated her career to the non-profit sector in Ireland and Canada, specialising in community-centric fundraising, advocacy and social impact.
A Dublin native, Emma has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community since 2017, a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change in their cities and communities. Emma enjoys digital storytelling and has a BSc. in Multimedia from Dublin City University.

Thomas Ahlmann, FairWertung, Germany
Thomas is the managing director of the umbrella organization FairWertung e.V., the German network of social economy reuse companies and used textile collectors.
FairWertung wants to bring more transparency to the collection, recovery and recycling of used textiles. FAirWertung sees itself as a driver of a textile circular economy and a more sustainable textile economy.
Thomas main activity is the promotion of textile clothing donations, local reuse cycles and the representation of the interests of non-profit clothing collectors.

Neva Nahtigal
Director
neva.nahtigal@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – SLOVENIAN – CROATIAN – SPANISH – GERMAN – DUTCH

Edoardo Bodo
Policy officer - Environment
Before joining RREUSE, he did a traineeship in DG TREE at the Council of the European Union.
edoardo.bodo@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – ITALIAN – FRENCH

Frederick Ryan Wallace
Projects and Grant Management Officer
As the Project and Grant Management Officer, Frederick coordinates RREUSE’s involvement in two funded projects: the European Social Fund+ funded project DigiSocCirc, which focuses on identifying trends and opportunities for the digitalization of social enterprises working in the circular economy, and the COSME funded project BuySocCirc, dedicated to fostering partnerships between social enterprises and the private sector.
Before joining RREUSE, Frederick was involved in various sustainability initiatives. He worked on the CESCY (Circular Economy-Sustainable Competences for Youth) project, which was funded by the Erasmus+ program. Additionally, he was on the board of the European Students’ Forum (AEGEE-Europe) and Generation Climate Europe. Frederick holds a Master’s degree in Sustainability Science, Policy and Society from the University of Maastricht.
frederick.ryanwallace@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – SPANISH

Jana Zurkova
Deputy Director
Jana graduated in molecular biology and waste management and her first work experience was in the field of biomass and energy. In her spare time, Jana is a volunteer at Tournevie, a non-profit tool library in Brussels.
jana.zurkova@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – CZECH – GERMAN – FRENCH

Sandrine De Fru
Financial and development manager
Sandrine De Fru joined RREUSE in July 2023, to coordinate and manage Finance and Human Resources. During 25 years in the private sector she developed skills in Managerial Finance, Human Resources, Change management and Process Improvement. Then, she moved to the NGO sector, first with GCAP and now with RREUSE, bringing her experience combined with a passion for people and a deep motivation to engage in an organization driven by impact on people and environment.
She holds a Master Degree in Business and Administration.
ENGLISH – FRENCH – DUTCH – SPANISH

Oscar Planells
Research officer
Prior to joining RREUSE, Oscar studied Political Science and Sociology back in his hometown, Barcelona, and worked among others as a Research Assistant in a project regarding adult education centres in Catalonia.
oscar.planells@rreuse.org
SPANISH – ENGLISH – ITALIAN – CATALAN

Marie-Jeanne Gaertner
Project and Advocacy Officer
Prior to RREUSE, Marie-Jeanne completed a Master’s degree in European Affairs at Sciences Po Lille, worked within Quebec, European and French associations and participated in an Erasmus exchange programme in Norway.
marie-jeanne.gaertner@rreuse.org
FRENCH – ENGLISH – GERMAN

Simone Schirru
Policy Officer - Social Affairs
simone.schirru@rreuse.org
ENGLISH – ITALIAN – FRENCH