Editorial board
Natalie Bennett
Natalie Bennett is a Green member of the House of Lords in the UK. She was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Previously she spent 20 years working as a journalist, including on the Bangkok Post, The Times, and as editor of the Guardian Weekly.
Maria Mateeva Kazakova
Maria Mateeva-Kazakova completed her PhD in Political Science at Paris II Pantheon-Assas. Her dissertation focused on populism in eastern Europe. She previously was an advisor working on regional development in the European Parliament. Maria is a former journalist who wrote for media such as the Bulgarian edition of the Financial Times and the French journal Est-Europa. Currently, she is the Director of the Research, Analysis and Strategy Institute, operating in Sofia and Paris.
Rosa Martinez
Rosa Martínez Rodríguez was a Green member of the Spanish Parliament (2015-2019) and formerly co-spokesperson of the Spanish Green Party (EQUO) from 2014 to 2018. She is member of Ecopolitica, Spanish think tank on political ecology and currently works for a philanthropic foundation working on climate policies.
Luiza Bialasiewicz
Luiza Bialasiewicz is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, and a permanent Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin. Beteween 2011 and 2024, she held a Professorship of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam. Bialasiewicz’s research examines the evolution of EU foreign policy and geopolitics over the past two decades. She has also written extensively on the geopolitics of the EU’s migration management, examining various forms of border externalisation.
Edouard Gaudot
An historian and political scientist, Edouard was first a history professor in Sydney, then Grenoble before working at the College of Europe in Warsaw. He was later political advisor to the Greens-EFA group in the European Parliament for 9 years. He published Dessine-moi un avenir (Actes Sud 2020), as well as Pour la Planète (Dalloz, 2009), L’Europe c’est nous (Les Petits Matins, 2014).
Konrad Bleyer-Simon
Konrad Bleyer-Simon is a media scholar currently working as a research associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. Prior to that he was an award-winning journalist, spent some time working in international development in Laos and Kyrgyzstan and was for a time deputy editor of the Green European Journal. He holds a doctoral degree from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Adam Ostolski
Adam Ostolski is a sociologist, columnist and activist. He works at the University of Warsaw and is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna. He was co-editor-in-chief of Zielone Wiadomości (Green News) 2009-2013 and co-chair of the Polish Green Party in 2013-2016.
Team
Alessio Giussani
Editor in Chief
Alessio Giussani is the Editor in Chief of the Green European Journal.
Amir Hashemi
Editorial Assistant
Amir Hashemi is the editorial assistant of the Green European Journal.
Alessio De Carolis
Communications Intern
Alessio De Carolis is the communications intern of the Green European Foundation.