The Executive Board is elected annually by WSC-SD Members and co-ordinate the activities of this international organisation.
President: Sina Birkholz
Sina is a student of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Augsburg, Germany.. Her academic focus is on Critical and Constructivist Theories and she is particularly interested in the politics of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Sina is a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and funded by the Bavarian Max Weber Program. She was engaged with the Global Marshall Plan group in Augsburg and is a member of AEGEE. Sina had the opportunity to gather experience working for a local newspaper, as an intern to a member of the European Parliament and at the Austrian Embassy’s cultural forum in Cairo, where she lived for six months. She also spent a year at the University of St Andrews studying International Relations and had the chance to return to the Middle East for several months afterwards.
Contact: sina.birkholz@wscsd.org
Vice-President: Carl Justin Kamp
Justin is currently a PhD student at the chemical reaction engineering department at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. The PhD thesis work is based on a project for the Volvo Corporation, where the goal is the reduction of particulate emission from diesel engines through increased physical and chemical understanding, simulation and design. Justin has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the California Polytechnic University, a master’s in Environmentally Sustainable Process Technology (Chemical engineering) from Chalmers and is working on a second master’s in Engineering Mathematics at Chalmers. Justin is currently on the advisory board of AGS-Chalmers, and is consulting for the high-energy physics group, LIGO, at the California Institute of Technology.
Contact: carl.kamp@wcsd.org
Director of External Relations : Christopher Baan
Christopher Baan is currently studying his Bachelors in International Development at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, with a specialisation in natural resources, climate change and international security. In the year 2008-2009, he was chair of the board of ‘Morgen’, the national student umbrella organisation for sustainability initiatives at Dutch universities. Christopher is member of the advisory group for the Dutch Youth Delegates to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. In 2006 he cycled for half a year through India as part of an IT support programme at Ashray Trust, a local NGO in Varanasi, India.
Contact: christopher.baan@wscsd.org
Director of Internal Relations : Tamilla Khalilova
Tamilla has graduated from the Tashkent Medical Academy as a General Practitioner. She is currently the first year resident of cardiology at the Republican Specialized Research Center of Cardiology.
She is the founder of an NGO in Tashkent. Together with the members of NGO she worked on several projects encompassing health issues of Sustainable Development- air quality and health of population. Tamilla is currently the member of the Organizing Committee of the annual International Conference “New informational technologies in medicine, biology, pharmacology and ecology”.
Contact: tamilla.khalilova@wscsd.org
Director of Strategic Development: Ruth Moko (Kenya)
Ruth Moko graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Before starting a Master’s degree, she is currently working as an advisor in Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services, KPMG East Africa. Her experience spans through the banking, insurance, manufacturing and petroleum industries.. During her graduate years, she helped establish Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS) at her University. SfGS is one of the member student communities within the World Student Community for Sustainable Development (WSC-SD). Driven by a commitment of giving back to society, she joined the WSC-SD Executive Board in October 2009 to assist in the development of its long term strategy.
Contact: ruth.moko@wscsd.org
Director of Online Collaboration: Pieter Ploeg (Sweden/The Netherlands)
Pieter is a student of the International Youth Initiative Program for Social Entrepreneurship. He also holds a Bachelor of Art. He founded a Dutch youth network called Idem, as part of an international youth platform organisation called Idem – Identity through Initiative. He is one of the founding facilitators and organizers of the Connectivity Network & Conference in South Africa in 2011. He works on different Social and Sustainability projects from Järna, Sweden as consultant, facilitator and web-developer.
Contact: pieter.ploeg@wscsd.org
