PASOS Secretariat staff

Jeff Lovitt was Director of Communications at the Berlin-based international secretariat of Transparency International, the global anti-corruption NGO, from November 2000 until leaving to become the first Executive Director of the PASOS Secretariat upon its establishment in Prague in March 2005. From 1999-2000, he worked as an editor and media consultant in Prague and Bratislava for international companies, including Commerzbank Capital Markets Central Europe, and NGOs, including Forum 2000, the foundation of then Czech President Václav Havel. From 1995-1998, he was Central Europe correspondent for The European newspaper. From 1987-1995, he worked as an editor and journalist in London for The European, the Sunday Times, New Statesman and other publications. He has also reported for the Financial Times, and written as an op-ed contributor for the International Herald Tribune. From 1991-93, he was Reviews Editor of the British political weekly Tribune.

Petr Jan Pajas retired from the post of Vice-President (Administration) of the Anglo-American College in Prague after holding the post from 2002-2005. Originally a physicist and mathematician, he was forced to work as a transportation system analyst from 1972-1989. After November 1989, he became known more as a leading NGO spokesman and as an expert on the NGO legal environment. Since 1992, he has worked in co-operation with ICNL - International Center for Non-Profit Law (USA) - and as co-founder and Executive Manager of a consulting company advising NGOs. From 1995-2000 he was Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Free Enterprise in Prague. Before, he held several senior NGO roles, including as Executive Director of the Czechoslovak Charta 77 Foundation during 1989-1992, as Executive Director for the Office for Establishing the Central European University in Prague during 1991-1993, and as Executive Director of the Institute of Municipal Informatics of Prague during 1993-1995. Affiliated with EUROPEUM, the PASOS member in the Czech Republic, he is also the author and editor of a number of books on the European Union, and is a trainer on EU affairs.

Eva Rybková is a communications professional and journalist who has worked on a wide range of international NGO projects, primarily focused on journalism training and media policy. In 1996 she was Project Co-ordinator of the Open Society Institute Regional Media Programme, overseeing a continuing education project for directors of OSI regional media programmes from Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. She has also worked for OSI EUMAP (the Open Society Institute's EU Monitoring and Advocacy Programme), and in 2006 was author of the Czech Republic country report for the EUMAP publication, TV Across Europe: Regulation, Policy and Independence. Eva has worked as a project manager and trainer for Transitions Online, where she managed the Diversity Reporting Project. She has also worked in a variety of events management roles, and as a journalist and producer for Czech and international media, including ABC News, Associated Press Television News, TV Nova, BBC World Service, and Czech Radio.