Board & Secretariat

Barbara Grazzini is the Deputy President of InEuropa Srl, GAP’s member organisation in Italy, which she founded in 2006 and has managed since.

In 1996, she graduated in Languages and Foreign Literatures, Social Urban Geography branch, at Pisa University. She first approached European issues while she was earning a postgraduate Master’s in Economy and Law Issues, European Countries, that same year. She has been working on the design and management of European projects since then, delivering training, information and technical assistance for private and public organisations in Italy and in Europe.

Barbara is a facilitator, certified LEGO@SERIOUS PLAY, applying the learning-for-change process in her job and in her everyday life. She is a determined and outgoing person, with very important qualities to ensure successful results in the design/projecting, management and coordination of European and international projects.

Barbara works with public authorities and private organisations all over Italy and in Europe to foster European cooperation in many fields, and promotes the importance of education and training to sensitize people to sustainable approaches. In 2009, InEuropa started a cooperation with the GAP network to run programmes on behaviour change in Italy.

Frans Lenglet is an independent researcher in the domain of learning, education and schooling and social, economic and environmental development. For many years, he was involved in designing, conducting and managing training, evaluation and research projects and programs in educational information technology, agricultural extension, internationalization of universities, educational management and reform, and international labour standards, in five continents.

He was the first Director of the Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development (SWEDESD) at Uppsala University, Sweden (2008-2014). Currently, he is member of a number of international networks involved in designing and applying ‘sustainability learning’, through which individuals, communities and organizations – in their diversity – gain understanding, make decisions and act on choices about just cultural, social, economic and bio-physical conditions affecting their own livelihoods and well-being as well as those of other people and future generations, within planetary boundaries.

Serra Titiz has been working on sustainable development since 2003. She is the founder and the managing director of a social enterprise: Mikado Sustainable Development Consulting, based in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Mikado, is a social enterprise that crafts models for sustainable development. Three pillars are responsible management, social impact and social innovation. (www.mikadoconsulting.com). Mikado is the first B Corp Company in Turkey and the oldest active B Corp in Europe.

Serra is also the founder of a vocational orientation platform, “Future is Brighter” Youth Platform (www.futureisbrighter.org); an online and offline platform, targeting youth unemployment and enabling knowledge and experience sharing without any time and space restriction for youth to make more informed decisions about their education, career and life. The e-mentoring module is a prominent tool developed to enable corporate volunteers to meet and share professional expertise with students.

Serra also serves as key expert at various UNDP projects.

• Serra has been named Ashoka Fellow in 2013. She is an Eisenhower Fellow since 2013. Serra holds BMW Foundation’s Responsible Leader Award, 2014.

Serra obtained her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Bosphorus University, Istanbul; then obtained her masters degree in Business Administration from Aston University, Birmingham, England.

Vu Dang Hoang is a Project Officer come Researcher of the Centre for Development of Community Initiative and Environment (C&E), an NGO working on promoting   participation and improving capacity of local groups and organizations for better solutions to environment and climate change issues that are related to their life, contributing to the development of civil society and sustainable environment in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. 

Hoang’s passion is sustainability and psychology in education. His work mainly focus on promoting sustainable behaviours through interventions and research. In his private time, he follows political movements and enjoys trekking mountains.

Vivien Führ is founder and general manager of agado – Association for Sustainable Development based in Munich, Germany.

She studied law in at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University College London and holds a Master in Environmental Law. Previous engagements include working for the European Commission on climate change, coordinating European projects on sustainable public procurement for the international city network ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and working for a consultancy on European projects with a focus on energy and mobility. Vivien is focussing on sustainable public procurement and educational programmes.

agado has been a member of Global Action Plan International since it was founded in 2010. agado is assisting people and organisations towards sustainable practices through research, individual support and by running educational programmes in various topics.

Maina WaGĩokõ is the Head of the Professional development centre at the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa (a Microsoft Showcase School), and a member of the Aga Khan Schools globally. Maina is the Project Director of the Foundation for learning project ad a Global Coordinator for the Knowledge Innovation project across Bangladesh, Kenya, and Rwanda. 

Maina is a teacher educator, an examiner, an online facilitator, and an innovative learning facilitator. He holds a B Sc. Egerton University, Kenya, a Master’s in Education from Aga Khan University in Pakistan, and a Ph.D. from Swiss Management Center University in Switzerland amongst other professional qualifications. He has coordinated Education Programmes in multi-sectoral, -country, -agencies, and -donors set up in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the USA, and Canada. He is a researcher, author, and journal reviewer.

Mainas’ research interests are in innovative pedagogies, transformative leadership, and sustainable development. Maina is an HGSE FoL Fellow, METIS Fellow, Microsoft Certified Educator, Microsoft Fellow, and a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Some of the notable recognitions include  Second Most Innovative Teacher on Content in Africa(2010) and a finalist Africa representative at World Wide Innovative Education Forum (WWIEF). Most innovative teacher in East and Southern Africa (2011) and the Middle East and African Finalist at WWIEF, Top 100 Influencers of Education Technology in Africa (2018), Top 50 Global Teacher Finalist (2019), Presidential Awardee of Education Innovator (2019), and Baldev Singh Award Top 4 Global Finalis (2020).

Katarzyna Ratajczyk has been a member of the GAP Poland Board since 2017, which involves attending GAPI annual meetings and delivering workshops in recent Green Local Community projects.
She educates people about seasonal food according to climate zones as well as runs her own Facebook group for people to easily access more information on the subject. Her sustainable areas of interest are mostly focused on sustainable food, tourism and cooperation with local authorities.

Katarzyna is experienced in all three sectors of economy: private, public and NGO’s. She started her career in communication business, working for international agencies (McCann-Ericsson, DDB), followed by working with Warsaw City Hall as Director of City Promotion Department for 7 years. During that time she carried out the green audit of the office space together with Skanska company.
Katarzyna is active in the Women Entrepreneurship Network and wrote a book detailing 11 interviews about the value of business failure (Unbreakable, 2015). She acted as Communication Consultant with the organic markets in Warsaw, selling EU eco-certificated products. Katarzyna has also volunteered her time to help Ukraine with relief work (organising transport and accommodation).

Marjoleine Bakker has been a board member of GAP Netherlands since 2023, bringing new energy and spirit to our organisation and to the joint projects GAP Netherlands is running together with various members of the GAP I network.

Marjoleine has a background in business, entrepreneurship and sustainability. As senior Climate Coach, she is actively involved in the Dutch NGO ‘Climate Conversations’. Next to this, she is a speaker representing of NGO ‘Think Big Act Now’, about the hidden impact of our footprints. Her work at Global Action Plan Netherlands, with a focus on behaviour change, impact measurement and empowerment, complements her other activities.

For GAP Netherlands, she is one of the project leaders of the project Climate Action for All, which is a joined project with TVE Hungary and BEF Germany. Next to this she is one of the project leaders of the recently started project GOOD FOOD, which is a joined project with agado, InEuropa and GAP Spain

Her areas of interest are sustainable food, fashion, digital detox and impact driven change management. Marjoleine is an active person with a lot of energy to get things done and make change happen. 

Claire Arnott is Head of Good Life Schools at Global Action Plan UK, working with local authorities, schools and community groups across the UK to address the impacts of excessive consumption. Since joining Global Action Plan UK in 2022, Claire has managed a diverse portfolio of education projects and programmes, including the global delivery of the double-award winning Persil Dirt Is Good Project.

Claire has 10 years’ experience working in the education sector, having started her career as a Primary Teacher in Scotland. Over the past decade, she has worked with schools, small charities and international organisations to create learning opportunities that encourage critical thinking and compassionate action. This has included working with the Fairtrade Foundation to support young people to explore trade justice and global inequality, and leading the global delivery of the double award-winning Dirt Is Good Project – supporting young people to take action on issues they care about.

Claire has an MA(Hons) in International Relations and Primary Education, and an MA in Education and International Development from the UCL Institute of Education.

Ellie Moore has been the GAP International Global Secretariat since February 2024, and works as a Programme Assistant at GAP UK full time. As part of the secretariat role, Ellie communicates with members, plans network meetings, writes and collates the GAP International newsletter and takes minutes at key meetings across the network.

Ellie received her Bsc Ecology and Wildlife Conservation Degree in 2020 and since then, has been working in Special Educational Needs as well as volunteering her time to various wildlife conservation charities. In her spare time, she enjoys long walks and sea swimming.