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| Management |
 Ada Ámon - director
Email: amon@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3524
I am a qualified economist, a member of the Energia Klub for 17 years. I worked as a consultant for the London-based International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC), as the energy coordinator of CEE Bankwatch (Bankfigyelő Hálózat), and as an energy advisor to the Greens in the European Parliament. From 2004 to 2008 I was a member of the National Environment Council, as well as many campaigns’ and international programmes’ executive committee. I was the Hungarian writer in international, jointly-produced publications, and christened numerous organisations. I give lectures at universities and presentations on courses. My writings most often analyse energy policy, or criticise them. Thanks to our many years of devoted work, today the Energia Klub is regarded as a highly competent expert in these issues.
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Katalin Kápolnai - deputy director
Email: kapolnai@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3535
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Mária Csikai - on maternal leave
I have been responsible for the Energia Klub’s organisational management since 2005: fund-raising, planning, PR, marketing, administration, and service development all fall under my remit. I am a cultural and adult training manager, earlier I worked in media, the cultural sector, in events management, as well as in trade. At the Energia Klub I am primarily responsible for maintaining contact with the international funding programmes’ handling bodies, including Manage Energy and Cordis. I also take part in international conferences and information days. I am proud that I played a part in making the Energia Klub as stable as it is today, where quality, highly professional work is going on. My aim in brief: do non-profit, professionally!
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 Ferenc Welsch - financial director
Email: welsch@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3523
I finished my studies in economics at the Manchester Business School, achieving an MBA, and since then I have worked in various senior management positions in Hungary, Costa Rica and Denmark. I joined the non-profit sector in the ’90s, and since 2008 I have striven to enrich the not – to - be underestimated knowledge pool here with a little of my for-profit input: I oversee the financial and administrative duties.
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Dorottya Krafcsik - financial assistant
Email: krafcsik@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3532
I have been a colleague of the Energia Klub since 2001. I graduated as a non-profit manager at Berzsenyi Dániel College and am an accountant. I was the financial director until 2007, after returning from my maternal leave, I have been the member of the management as a half-timer since 2009.
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 Andrea Nagy - corporate relations
Email: nagy@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3534
I joined the Energia Klub in 2007 after putting a decade and a half of experience in development in the Hungarian and international company finance and banking sector under my belt. I am an economist, I took my degree in Prague. In Australia I completed a course in Biodynamic Farming. I worked for traditional banks and with those utilising the MMM (Merging Mission with Market) approach, the so-called alternative financial institutions, as well as studying foundations such as these in New Zealand and Australia. I used to be the local representative of the international alternative bank, Tridos, well known for its commitment to social and sustainability issues. The purpose of my work is to develop long term strategical relationships between the Energia Klub and Hungarian companies. My first project here at the Energia Klub was the ’Lakcimke’ campaign, in which we successfully involved many large Hungarian companies. The real success wasn’t simply managing to gain their financial support, but also that we were able to make them financially interested in having the aims of the campaign transplanted into and operating in the market. I regard it as an aim and a challenge to find the shared, advantageous opportunities for cooperation between those serving the common good, free from business interests, and the economic realities and business sector interests.
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| Policy for the future |
 Katalin Varga - renewable energy, project manager
Email: varga@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: + 36 1 411 3533
I am an economist, I completed my studies at Corvinus University and in Passau. I have been a team member since 2006. My primary task at the Energia Klub is the promotion of the use of renewables. We would like to achieve the widespread use of locally available, practically infinite resources of clean solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass power instead of the expensive, polluting resources that conserve energy dependency. We pursue this aim by organising professional roundtable discussions, launching projects, cooperating with educational and research institutes. My work is supported by the newest findings of international studies and research, contacts maintained with international experts and organisations and active participation in various national and European events and trade fairs. I have delivered a great number of lectures on the topic, have written many background studies, market analyses, information materials, summaries for decision makers and articles. The latest is Renewable Energy in Hungary – Status Report 2008, and I am also the proud creator of the Good Practices database. For a few months at the beginning of 2009 I worked at the German Öko-Institut on projects on green electricity labelling and the subsidising of renewable heat generation.
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 Zsuzsanna Koritár - conventional energy sources, project manager
Email: koritar@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3522
I have been a member of the Energia Klub since 2001. I graduated from ELTE as a geologist, hydro-geologist and a special English translator. After that I graduated from the environmental science and policy department of CEU as well. My task is awareness raising and providing information to the public on nuclear energy as well as being a watchdog of processes in this field and campaigning and doing media work for the transparency of the industry. To this end I have analysed and commented on a number of impact studies, and have helped international organisations take part in the impact study process of the lifetime-extension of the Paks nuclear power station. I am in contact with many international organisations, took part in an international civil conference on nuclear energy in Chicago, 2001, and in the civil conciliatory forum in Vienna. I was the editor of the Anti-nuclear Newsletter, then of its successor, 230, for five years. I am the author of many publications, like Reaktorta, „20 years of radiation - in memoriam Chernobil”, and „Into which backyard?” but I have also created educational posters for schools about the operation of reactors and about nuclear waste.
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 András Perger - conventional energy sources, project manager
Email: perger@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3530
I have been a colleague of the Energia Klub since 2002. The essence of my job is to provide both the public and political decision-makers with well founded and independent information on nuclear energy and conventional energy resources. To this end I have been attending international conferences, seminars and forums from Kiev to Brussels, from Helsinki to Sofia, and I always keep an eye on the latest analyses and research of the most important international research institutes, universities and energy agencies. Daily contact with international green organisations and ecological institutes also help my work. I have been an author of „Chances of nuclear energy in the 21st century”, which analyses the state of the nuclear industry, „20 years of radiation - in memoriam Chernobyl” and also the national report „Nuclear risk and social control”.
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 Péter Kardos - climate change, expert
Email: kardos@energiaklub.hu
I graduated as a traffic engineer at BME KSK and as a meteorologist at ELTE TTK. I had plenty of occasions to confront the ever more pressing problem of climate change as a student of meteorology. That was when I decided that I would use the knowledge I gained to raise as many people’s awareness to this potential threat as possible and to show a different approach. I have been working at the Energia Klub since 2004, where I am now utilising international legal, political, economical, financial and environmental approaches as well as the academic to help humanity mitigate the unavoidable and avoid the unmitigatable. I take part in developing teaching material and delivering lectures too as part of my job but I am also present when the countries of the world meet to decide on what to do in the course of the fight against climate change. In recent years I have been taking part in the social consultation process of the Hungarian introduction of the EU-ETS, in the work of the inter-ministerial committee of Kyoto mechanism and in creating the civil expert study on the National Climate Change Strategy. Presently I am a civil member of many committees related to this.
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 Dénes Fellegi - energy efficiency project assistant
Email: fellegi@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: + 36 1 411 3527
I graduated at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2007, then held the position of a branch manager at a mortgage lending company. I had always wanted to take a more active part in social awareness raising and that is why I decided to find a field where there is more opportunity for this. Presently I am writing studies and analyses to help the work of energy policy decision-makers.
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 Dr. Attila Antal - legal expert
Email: antal@energiaklub.hu
I graduated from the faculty of law at ELTE in 2009 and am now completing my second degree, a Degree in Political Science. I joined the Energia Klub as a legal expert in 2009, previously I had helped to develop the Energia Klub’s Policy on Usage of Information as an intern. I gathered my professional experience in public administration and at various political analyst firms, presently I am a legal expert journalist and an assistant lecturer. I take part in work that requires a legal background at the Energia Klub, and also take part in the corruption monitoring of public administration.
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András Murányi - senior reserach consultant
Email: muranyia@energiaklub.hu
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| Alternatives to people |
 Zsuzsanna Király - residential energy management, project manager
Email: kiraly@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 35 25
I am an engineer with a legal qualification. I have been working at the Energia Klub since 2004, previously working in local council environmental protection for three years. The essence of my work: public awareness raising. In the process of the local council energy management project I was continuously exchanging information with the French centre of Energie-Cités. During another project I lead, „Check it out”, I was in daily contact with the Dutch centre of Ecofys and with the Berliner Energieagentur, Berlin’s official energy agency. In this campaign we carried out the energy audit of 15 schools, created teaching materials and delivered teacher trainings. I strive to strengthen the cooperation of the green and the social spheres as well in the field of energy efficiency. In the Green Energy Network I coordinated the training of citizens to become civil energy consultants, at the moment I am leading the „Lakcímke” campaign on household energy efficiency. Thanks to the endless list of media appearances, studies, trainings and lectures, everyday energy efficiency solutions are now available and understandable for everybody.
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 Nelli Tóth - municipal energy management, project manager
Email: toth@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3526
I am an environmental engineer, teacher of environmental studies and an engineer with legal qualifications. I have been at the Energia Klub since 2001. I am presently leading the Solar Energy Championship for local municipalities, and setting up a collection of good practices of public institutions on energy efficiency and renewables projects. I am a founder of the Energy Management Scientific Association, the Settlement Energetics Section and a member of the monitoring committee of the Association of Conscious Consumers. For years I coordinated the creation of the Association of Energy Efficient Local Councils and the Hungarian Energy Brigades program, and was leader of the program working to create public energy consultancy offices. I strive to create cooperation between local councils, NGOs and players of business life in my work. I authored the energy efficiency section of the Sustainable Energy Strategy and also created teaching materials, films and the consultancy model of Energia Klub. I was the consultant to the Hungarian programme of the European Energy Championship in 2005.
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 Cili Lohász - education and training, program coordinator
Email: lohasz@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3528
I graduated from the departments of Biology and Chemistry and have qualifications to teach in German, but also studied Geography at university. I volunteered for and was chair of an international youth organisation for seven years where my main task was strategic planning and trainings, and also took part in developing personality-centered trainings and training materials. I have been working at the Energia Klub since 2006. My job is developing and distributing teaching materials and developing materials for awareness-raising campaigns. I do trainings and lectures on energy conscious consumption and on climate change in schools and for companies, in English and German too.
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 Brigitta Bozsó - climate change, project manager
Email: bozso@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3527
I graduated from Corvinus University as a landscape and garden architect, and went on to CEU and studied at the department of Environmental Sciences. I have been in the civil sphere for 6 years (I worked for WWF earlier), I have been a member of the Energia Klub team since 2008. My field is climate politics: supporting and convincing decision-makers on the one hand, in order to create climate-friendly legislation, and informing the public through the media and communication programs on the other. I am also doing international lobby work related to the Climate and Energy package of the EU. I took part in the international climate talks in Poznan and in the social consultation process of the Hungarian national climate change strategy and program. I am an observer of the Energie Cités MODEL project. I have attended a number of international conferences: UNFCCC COP 14 (Poznan), New Global Deal Conference, Agora on Climate Change, Global-contract conference (all three in Brussels), CAN-Europe GA. I am the national coordinator of the project „Engaging civil society in research on sustainable development” starting this year, dealing with the creation of municipal level climate change strategies. Other projects: Time to lead campaign 2008, Building the capacity of Visegrad NGOs for participation in global climate talks. I am also a member of the Climate Change Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Water.
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Judit Horváth - residential energy management, project assistant
Email: judit@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3525
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| PR |
 Gyula Toth - PR, communication
Email: gyulatoth@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3536
I have been dealing with communications for almost a decade. For years I created commercials, I wrote scripts, planned and realised my ideas. All which I learned to encourage consumerism, I now put to use in this new field. In 2008 I joined the Energia Klub team. I gained qualifications as a Hungarian teacher, then lawyer, after which I specialised, taking a degree in environmental law. I am presently studying psychology.
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| Reception |
 Szilvia Engi - office manager
Email: eszilvi@energiaklub.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3520
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Krisztián Németh - IT manager
Email: Nemeth.Krisztian@okotars.hu
Telefon: +36 1 411 3520
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