Parallel Session: EU Funds for Socio-Ecological Transition: How to shape them? How to use them?

Anna Lisa Boni, Eurocities Secretary General

Anna Lisa Boni has been secretary general of EUROCITIES since June 2014. She has 25 years of professional experience in EU public affairs in the field of local and regional government and has successfully worked for a stronger recognition of cities’ challenges within the European agenda.
Her aim is to act in a way that best serves European cities as key players in the European project and centres for generating renewal and growth. Anna Lisa has a Masters degree from the University of Bologna in political science, and from the University of Leuven in European studies.

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Magdalena Davis, Co-chair of the Czech Green Party, Mayor of Mníšek pod Brdy town

I’m a mother of three, a biologist by profession and Green at heart. I spent ten happy years of my professional life chasing invertebrates in the Australian desert. My political career began soon after returning to my home town in the Czech Republic as a local opposition councillor. I won the municipal election and became the town mayor in 2018, the same year I was elected as the vice-chair of the Czech Greens. I became the co-chair of the party with my colleague Michal Berg in January 2020.

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Julia Dumay, Deputy Mayor of Strasbourg, responsible for European and international relations

Julia Dumay was born on 26 May 1986 in Cologne. Possessing dual French and German nationality, she grew up in Freiburg, in the Upper Rhine region and has been living in Strasbourg for the last 9 years. “Cross-border issues are in my DNA” she says.
With a degree in Politics, Ms. Dumay has considerable professional experience in setting up cross-border, European and international projects in higher education and culture.
Her appointment as deputy mayor and as a Eurometropolis councillor in 2020 represented her first move into politics.
The main focuses of her mandate are driving exchanges of good practices between towns and cities at both European and international level, developing dialogue between citizens and European institutions, and organising European events which are more inclusive of the citizens of Strasbourg. “I would like” she says, ”Strasbourg to take better advantage of the opportunities offered by the cross-border area to experience the benefits of Europe on a daily basis.”

Roccu Garoby, Policy Adviser for the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament

I am Roccu GAROBY, 33 years old, Corsican, I have Master degree on Political sciences ( on EU affairs). I wrote on EU affairs in a Corsican weekly political newspapers (2010-2018), I was President (2011-2016) and Vice-President (2016-2018) of the Youth Branch of the European Free Alliance (EFAYouth). Former Assistant to the Greens/EFA MEP François Alfonsi (2010-2011), I have been working for the Greens/EFA group since November 2011, mainly on the EU budgetary affairs (Committee on Budgets and Committee on Budgetary control). I took part, as Greens/EFA staff, on the negotiations on the MFF 2014-2020 & MFF 2021-2027. 

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Simone Reinhart, Advisor on Regional Development to the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament

Geographer, urban planner and passionate for regional development

Bernd Voß, Member of the European Committee of Regions and of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament

In addition to a long career in green politics, Bernd Voß has been involved in energy-environmental and agricultural issues since completing his studies: from being a dairy farmer to being one of the founders of Die GRÜNEN in Northern Germany. From 2002 to 2006 Voß was a member of the European Economic and Social Committee and focused on GMO-free food, organic farming, biomass, renewable energies and industry. As a European politician, he is also a member of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference. To this day, climate, energy and rural development remain his three priority areas. Voß is a member of the European Committee of the Regions since January 2020.

Vula Tsetsi, Committee member, European Green Party

Vula Tsetsi was elected to the Committee of the EGP in November 2019. In her mandate as Committee member, she is notably responsible for liaising with the EGP Southern Member Parties.

She is since 2004 the Secretary-General of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament and she has also been active with the Greens in Greece for many years.

She is dedicated to reinforcing the cooperation between the European Green family organisations, including the Green European Foundation, the Greens/EFA Group, and the Federation of Young European Greens.