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Andrea Razum
Contact: andrea.razum@zagimun.org
Born in 1984, Andrea is currently working at her parents’ company at the same time developing her own business ideas and traveling. She graduated in December 2007 majoring in Finance with highest honors at Graduate School of Economics and Business in Zagreb. As a part of her studies she has spent a year abroad studying in Barcelona at Universidad Pompeu Fabra after which she moved to Budapest to take advantage of an internship opportunity. She loves dancing salsa and undertaking random trips with her vice-presidentas. After participating in several MUN's, including last year’s ZAGIMUN, she decided to take part in organizing this year’s edition of such brilliant conference.
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”, Audrey Hepburn
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| Finance |
Dinka Dumičić
Born in 1985, Dinka is about to finish her studies at the University of Zagreb, majoring in Accounting. As an exchange student in 2007, she spent a semester studying at the University of Sydney, but only after having sent Lea to GIMUN, which set off the avalanche of diabolic events that led to the foundation of the ZAGIMUN Conference. She is currently doing an internship at the UNDP Office in Zagreb. This year, Dinka will use her accounting super-powers to keep the ZAGIMUN finance and fundraising in order, closely collaborating with the Supervisory Board.
“I love tiaras. They are so cute.”, Paris Hilton
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| Recruitment team |
Contact: recruitment@zagimun.org
Ema Gojković Vidak and Sandra Milanko will be in charge of recruiting and selecting participants of the 2008 ZAGIMUN Conference. They will be your contact persons before and during the conference and assisting participants in any way possible (accommodation, visa, etc.).
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| Logistics team |
The ZAGIMUN Logistics team this year consists of five people. Their job is to make sure that everything functions during the conference. They are here to make your ZAGIMUN experience as comfortable as possible.
“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”, Carl Sandburg
Members
Filip Žafran, born in 1984, is a final year student at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. This year at ZAGIMUN you'll be seeing him running around again, this time as the Logistics team manager, but feel free to stop him and ask him all sorts of questions.
Luka Čolić, born in Zagreb in 1986, is a third year Law student at the University of Zagreb. Last year’s ZAGIMUN was his first MUN experience where he participated as ECOSOC delegate. He is looking forward to meeting you all and can’t wait to see you in Zagreb!
Tea Piacun, born in Zagreb in 1984, she currently studies Law at the University of Zagreb. Last year she participated in ZAGIMUN as a delegate, but this year she is in charge of helping you all to have a great time.
Ivan Radek, born in Brezice, Slovenia, in 1982, he was raised in the picturesque city of Samobor. He graduated from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science with a degree in aeronautics last year. Participating in his first MUN in Ljubljana this year, he realized this is an excellent opportunity to improve his professional skills and to gain new insights.
Marija Šutalo was born and raised in the beautiful city of Đakovo. After she finished high school she came to Zagreb where she is studying at the Faculty of Economics and Business. Last year she participated at ZAGIMUN as a secretary of Conference of Disarmament and today she can proudly say that she is a member of the logistics team.
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| ZAGINEWS Editor-in-chief |
Iva Šulentić
Born in 1983, she majored in Marketing at the University of Zagreb this year, and she is thrilled about the future. Last year she was amongst the few pioneers in organizing ZAGIMUN. This year she climbed up the ladder, compared to her first MUN appearance in Milan, where she acted as a journalist. After making a quick stop as co-editor for MUNUSAL, she is now Chief Editor of ZAGInews, a multi-faceted journal which will cover all daily happenings in the committees and in ZAGIMUN's social life. A bit of stress and a number of sleepless nights for her, but as she suffers from insomnia, that's all good. Will be a helping hand for the ExCom, whenever and wherever needed so - get out of her way! Loves to talk, move, dance and giggle, can’t stay at one place for too long, loves everything what young people love. And so do her vice-presidentas and sneezing pandas! Rock on!
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”, Charles Bukowski
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| Secretary General |
Rami Rasamny
Born in Westminster, London, Rami has recently graduated from the University Of Westminster with an LLB in Commercial Law. After the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, Rami moved to Lebanon, his country of origin, and continued his high school degree graduating from the International Baccalaureate Program. During his school years he was recognized for his diplomatic skills and awarded the European Community of International Schools (ECIS) Award for international understanding, and diplomatic ability. He was also the recipient of the International College Model United Nations Award.
Rami first began Model United Nations in 2003 at the Yale International Model United Nations for High School students. Since then he has participated in numerous MUNs from Beijing to Geneva. He was also founder of the University of Westminster Model United Nations Society and President-elect 2005/2006. Recently, he was given the honour of chairing the Security Council at GIMUN 2008, and is a former Zagichair himself, chairing the Security Council at ZAGIMUN 2007.
Rami is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Law from King's College London.
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”, George W. Bush
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| Security Council |
Simon Walters
Studying for an MA in History at The University of Edinburgh, Simon became a regular participator in MUN events whilst studying at La Universidad de Salamanca for an Erasmus year. Beforehand Simon was heavily involved in all things UN related, and was the founding President of the Edinburgh United Nations Youth and Student Association (EDUNYSA), which organised a series of events, including meetings at the British and Scottish Parliaments to help raise awareness and education among students of Great Britain of global issues.
Outside of the MUN world, Simon works as an English teacher to non-native speakers, and can be occasionally heard on local radio stations.
“Sin Locura No Hay Aventura!”
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Kaspar Paur
Born and raised in a little village close to Zurich, he decided in 2006 to exchange cows and farms with the "Jet d'Eau" and "Palais the Nations" and he is now studying International Relations at the University of Geneva. After participating in various Model United Nations around Europe, he decided to dedicate large portions of his free time to the GIMUN (Geneva International MUN) during the last year, where his mandate as President is about to end and the one as President of the EMUNNET (European MUN Network) about to start! He had the pleasure to participate in the first edition of the ZAGIMUN and he is very much looking forward to chair the SC in the second edition!
For Kaspar, the MUN-movement is…neither a drug nor a sect, but once you're in there you get addicted and you'll never leave!
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| Human Rights Council |
Hassan Yassine
Hassan will be chairing the HRC committee at ZAGIMUN. He is 22 years old, of Lebanese origins, but has lived all his life in the Netherlands. He is a student of the CEMS International Management master programme for which he is currently on exchange at Bocconi until July. He is very interested in MUNs and debating/international relations as a whole. He speaks English, Dutch and Lebanese fluently and is currently learning Italian at intermediate level. His hobbies are football, traveling and learning new things. A good mix of studying hard and partying hard is an essential balance for a student, and this will happen at ZAGIMUN too!
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Georgiana Ungureanu
Georgiana is a 23 years old Romanian, currently finishing her third year of Law and also a European Studies graduate (2007). Her interest in the international affairs (especially the European Union) appeared somewhere in high school, but came of age when she decided to study international relations and European studies and, some time later, law. She was also an Erasmus student at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, the turning point in her international life, when she fell in love with this small country and became passionate about simulation games. She caught the MUN virus only in 2007, at the WorldMUN in Geneve; the experience was amazing, since she had no idea what a MUN was and she started from top down. Ever since, she has attended a few other MUNs and simulations, both as a chair and as a delegate. She absolutely loves travelling, the sea and the sun.
I look forward to meeting you all in Zagreb!
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people!”, Eleanor Roosevelt
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| Disarmament and International Security Committee |
Ine Declerck
Born in Belgium and raised around the world, Ine has built up MUN experience for the past five years. She attended several MUNs in Europe and the world, participating as delegate, ambassador and chair (Harvard WorldMUN 2004 & 2005, OxIMUN 2005, GIMUN 2006 & 2007, MILMUN 2006 & 2007, MEF 2007 (Model NATO) and MUNUSAL 2008). She graduated in Law (European and Public International Law) from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) in July 2007. During the final year of her law studies she studied a semester at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) with the Erasmus exchange program. Since then she has been backpacking around Australia and worked as a lawyer in the field of Belgian corporate and European competition law at the Brussels office of the American law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. She will be flying in from New York, where she is currently studying a Master in Law (LL.M.) International Legal Studies at NYU, to chair the Disarmament and Security Committee together with Matija at ZAGIMUN 2008, which will be her 10th MUN.
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Matija Blaće
Matija was born in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, but after three months he moved to Šibenik where he was living for the next 18 years. He then moved back to Zagreb to study at the Faculty of Law, where he is currently third year student. A year and a half ago, he joined debating club In Flagranti. It was like a volcano erupting! Within months, a brave new world opened with unlimited possibilities to travel, meet new people and expand horizons.
He registered for ZAGIMUN 2007 and fell sick, was knocked on the floor and probably won’t be the same ever again. Yes, it was the MUN virus... GIMUN 2008 only made it worse. A powerful speaker concentrating on important things, his ability as a delegate is far outmatched by his capacity for partying which is making him the last man standing on most social events.
Given the general theme of reforming, he is determined to make this ZAGIMUN something extra – it is easy to criticize, but difficult to actually set things right. So get ready for something that will blow you off your feet, get ready for ZAGIMUN 2008!
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”, James Thurber
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| Economic and Social Council |
Flladina Dibra
Born and raised in beautiful Albania, Flladina moved to Switzerland in 2001 to study. After some French lessons and a Bachelor's degree in business administration, she is in her second (and hopefully last) year of the Master of Science in Finance in Geneva. Ironically, Flladina hesitated a long time between international relations studies and financial analysis. She decided to go for the latter and even though she doesn’t regret her final choice, she remains very keen on international matters. Flladina became interested in MUNs while she was trying to find a way to escape a little from the randomness of financial markets. She got her big break in GIMUN 2006 when she applied and was offered the position of WTO chair. She swore this would be her last MUN but she ended up participating as ambassador of Brazil in GIMUN 2007 and was the Fundraising and Finance Coordinator for GIMUN 2008. However, she realized that she missed chairing and that she had never visited Croatia, so she decided to do one more MUN before she is sucked up in the financial world again.
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money”, Everett Dirksen
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Manuel B. Wilmanns
Manuel is a student of Political Science, International Law and American Literature and Language at the University of Bonn, Germany. During the last two semesters, he has been on a study year abroad at the University of Norte Dame in Indiana to focus on International Relations. He’s been a delegate at OxiMUN in 2006 and at NMUN in 2007, and he has been responsible for Committee Preparation at BIMUN/SINUB 2006 and 2007. Apart from that, he enjoys photography, eating interesting food and going out with his friends. He is looking forward to chairing the ECOSOC at ZAGIMUN 2008!
“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.”, Mae West
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