ICPA Team
| Lisa Quinn | Director & Co-founder |
| Eóin Young | Programme Director & Co-founder |
| Diana Paiva | Finance and Grants Officer |
ICPA Associates
We have worked with a team of policy experts and trainers since 2006.
| Ashot Khurshudyan | Senior Policy & Strategic Comms Trainer |
| Elena Klitsounova | Senior Policy Trainer |
| Katarina Staronova | Senior Policy Trainer/Researcher |
| Lucian Ciolan | Senior Policy Trainer |
| Vladimir Pavlovic | Policy Trainer |
ICPA has also trained and certified teams of policy trainers in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Mongolia and West Africa. On the narrative change track, ICPA has trained and certified teams of Strategic Communications/Narrative change experts in Germany and has a training team in Italy.
Please get in touch with us at info@policyadvocacy.org if you’re interested in our broader team.
Our History
We began our work in 2002 as a training group within the Local Government Initiative of the Open Society Institute, based in Budapest. Our focus was firmly on expanding the circle of NGOs/Thinktanks, Academia and Civil Servants producing and advocating for evidence-informed policy advice mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, The Balkans, The Caucuses, Central Asia and Mongolia. In this area of policy work, we have supported 19 different policy fellowship programmes from Portugal to Mongolia and produced market-leading policy skills resources.
In 2012, we decided to set up our own independent NGO and registered as a Non-profit company in Berlin. With the growth of populism around the issues of migration and civic space in the 2010’s, we also began to focus on public advocacy and narrative change, as the centre ground in these issues was eroding to divisive narratives that had previously been the preserve of the far right. In the area of narrative change and strategic communications, we have run 5 Narrative Development Labs to develop multiple pilot campaigns and projects and produced the Go-To toolkit for progressive migration campaigners on narrative change.
See more detail on our projects and resources.
Where we work
Our Annual Accounts
As a non-profit company in Germany (gemeinnützige GmbH or gGmbH), we are required to publish our end of year accounts with the Chamber of Commerce. These accounts are prepared by Wagemann & Partner and can be seen here:
ICPA Annual Accounts (2014 – 2022)