Europe & CIS

Mr. Daniel Hanspach

UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre
Emerging Donors and EU: Emerging Donors Policy Specialist

Summary: Daniel Hanspach is Emerging Donors Policy Specialist at Bratislava Regional Centre since December 2002. He designed and currently manages the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Trust Funds, the new donor countries' delivery mechanisms of Official Development Assistance. He also provides policy advice to other emerging donor countries and oversees national capacity-building projects for development cooperation. He began working for UNDP in 1998 as a National Liaison Officer in the Czech Republic. Before coming to UNDP, Mr. Hanspach worked at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences as a researcher in the area of local government, decentralization and regional development. He also taught political sociology and local government at the Charles Univerity and at the University of Economics in Prague. Mr. Hanspach received his MSc. in Sociology at the London School of Economics in 1991.

Languages: English, Russian, Slovak, Czech

Grosslingova 35 811 09, Bratislava
SLOVAKIA

Expertise: Emerging Donors

Responsibilities/specialization: Development cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe, new EU member states, Turkey and Russia