2009 LIBERTY CAMP PARTICIPANTS
Miss. Andjelija Babić, Montenegro
Mr. Boris Meglič, Slovenia
Mr. Božidar Dračun, Montenegro
Miss. Diana Ecaterina Oprinescu, Romania
Mr. Enes Banda, Montenegro
Mr. Galagan Dmytro, Ukraine
Miss. Ikonija Djukanović, Montenegro
Miss. Iryna Tumanova, Ukraine
Miss. Iuliia Obikhod, Ukraine
Miss. Kateryna Rymarenko, Ukraine
Miss. Lea Štumberger, Slovenia
Miss. Liudmyla Lompas, Ukraine
Mr. Lovro Jurgec, Slovenia
Mr. Luka Gubo, Slovenia
Miss. Monica Elena Vlaicu, Romania
Miss. Nadiia Stechyshyns, Ukraine
Miss. Nadiia Goroshchuk, Ukraine
Mr. Necip Sinan Sevilir, Turkey
Miss. Oana-Luminita Flintasu, Romania
Mr. Oleksandr Iaroshenko, Ukraine
Mr. Petar Radović, Montenegro
Miss. Raluca Ceaunica, Romania
Mr. Šimun Selak, Croatia
Dr. Tom Dyble, United States
Mr. Vadim Panashcha, Estonia
Miss. Veronika Korčekova, Slovakia
2009 FREEDOM AND TRANSITION PARTICIPANTS
Miss. Adriana Stefanova, Bulgaria
Miss. Alina Sviderska, Ukraine
Miss. Anca Dinita, Romania
Miss. Anna Parfjonova, Latvia
Mr. Borislav Ristić, Serbia
Mr. Domen Zafred, Slovenia
Mr. Dominik Saran, Poland
Mr. Duško Martić, Serbia
Mr. Frederik Cyrus Roeder, Germany
Mr. Ivan Lovrić, Serbia
Mr. Jure Baloh, Slovenia
Miss. Justina Seikyte, Lithuania
Miss. Karina Horvathova, Slovakia
Miss. Milica Predić Arsenijević, Serbia
Mr. Milutin Pavicević, Montenegro
Miss. Monica Elena Vlaicu, Romania
Mr. Nemanja Kovačević, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miss. Oksana Nagnichuk, Ukraine
Miss. Oleksandra Matushenko, Ukraine
Miss. Olga Kravets, Ukraine
Mr. Primož Kocuvan, Slovenia
Dr. Tom Dyble, United States
Mr. Tony Štupar, Slovenia
Mr. Vadim Panashcha, Estonia
Miss. Vlada Suković, Montenegro
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2008 LIBERTY CAMP PARTICIPANTS
Alexandra Sabolova
Alexandra is a journalism student at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her areas of specialization are broadcast media and foreign politics. She intends to finish her degree by July 2009 and pursue graduate studies in international relations in Germany. Before going for a master's degree, she will take a year off to volunteer in Chile. Alexandra's journalistic experience includes internships at a Slovak daily newspaper, at the Slovak Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is an active member of the Young Liberals youth organization. Alexandra also enjoys sports and meeting inspiring people. She is open-minded, travels extensively, reads plenty in the process and loves learning about foreign cultures.
Anahid Alice Danielian
Alice was born in Romania, but has Armenian roots. She lives in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Since December 2007, she has been working as corporate loans processing officer at the Risk Division of Raiffeisen Bank. Anahid holds a BA in Finance and Banking from the Academy of Economic Studies. Currently, she is pursuing a MA in Financial Management and Financial Market at the Academy of Economic Studies because she would like to become a financial analyst. While studying, Anahid took part at two Scientific Communications Sessions - External Sources for Financing the Romanian Infrastructure (2005) and The EU Insurance Market (2005). She also attended German language classes at Goethe Institute (obtaining a Zertificat Deutsch), pedagogy classes at the university, flute and guitar classes at Music and Art School, and painting, dance and language classes at the Armenian School in Bucharest. Her hobbies include reading, playing the guitar and flute, and traveling.
Andjelija Babic
Andjelija is studying at the Faculty for International Economy, Finance, and Business at UDG University in Donja Gorica, Montenegro � the first European faculty founded on classical liberal thought. Andjelija's view of life is based on similar ideas and principles. Andjelija is a very open person and likes people very much. She believes she is an interesting person and she likes a little bit of danger in her life. Hence, she tried many extreme sports, including skydiving. Andjelija respects honesty. She believes there are no limits in success, freedom and libertarian way of thinking.
Andreea Moraru
Andrea was born on the 8th of December 1984 in Romania. After obtaining a BA degree in Finance from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Andrea pursued a master�s degree in Finance at the University of Paris I Panth�on Sorbonne. Currently, Andrea is an intern at the National Bank of Romania in Bucharest. In her free time, Andrea is an active member of AMOFIB (Association Monnaie-Banque-Finance of University of Paris I Panth�on Sorbonne), of AEGEE (Association Etats-Genraux des Etudiants Europ�ens) and of the Young Liberal Party in Romania. Her hobbies are numismatics, traveling, and volunteering.
Andrej Stanimirovic
Andrej graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia, majoring in Electronics and Computer Engineering. Andrej rarely has the opportunity to exchange ideas and arguments about libertarianism. Most of his communication with libertarians is done through e-mails and through his blog, Trzisno Resenje. He is looking forward to the discussions at the Liberty Camp. Besides, being an entirely self-educated libertarian, Andrej is looking forward to exchanging ideas with his peers, students and lecturers. Finally, he thinks the venue of the Liberty Camp is very exciting.
Anja Bosilkova / Aњa Босилковa
It was on a 16th of October, in Skopje, Macedonia, when Anja first saw the light of this world and put a smile on her face which she never got off. She had a wonderful childhood and lived through exciting teenage times. Success at school was always a piece of cake for her and her biggest achievement was being unanimously voted to be the class president and standing up to all the injustice. She has always been a fighter for individual rights, a fiery debater and a great listener. Nevertheless, she is a caring and loyal friend, a very optimistic girl in love with music and dancing. In her free time, Anja is both a Sudoku and a gammon professional. And, yes, her dream is to travel around the world not in 80, but in 380 days!
Aurelia Slanina
Aurelia was born on May 15th, 1985. She recently finished her graduate studies of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, at the Department of International Economic Relations. Aurelia is currently an employee of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Moldova, in the Department of International Relations and Foreign Cooperation. As a person, Aurelia is optimistic, ambitious, stubborn and doesn�t like when somebody tells her what to do, because everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. More than anything, she likes being direct, honest and sometimes naughty. Her motto is: a weak person has problems, a powerful one have solutions!
Ayaz Mammadov
Ayaz was born in 1986 in Baku, Azerbaijan. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Azerbaijan�s University of Foreign Languages, Ayaz was admitted to the Near East University in Cyprus for a master�s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy, and is expecting to graduate in 2009. Ayaz has been an active member of youth movements in Azerbaijan and has participated in many international conferences and congresses. For example, in April 2007, Ayaz represented Azerbaijan�s Ministry of Youth and Sport during an international youth conference in Ankara, Turkey. He speaks four languages and his aim is to become a successful diplomat!
Benjamin David Stafford
Ben graduated in 2008 from Hillsdale College in Michigan with a major in Economics. He has interned at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a state-based free market think tank in the United States where he has published numerous articles. He now works as an assistant to Lawrence Reed, the president of the Foundation for Economic Education.
Bogdan Constantin Enache
Bogdan studied political science at the University of Bucharest. Currently, he is working as a journalist for a national business weekly newspaper. Bogdan's systematic interest in classical liberalism (or liberalism tout court, as he thinks it should be called) really kicked off during his college years. Before that, he did consider himself a liberal for some time. Lately, he's been drawn by several fields--economics in particular, but also philosophy--which he plans to explore alongside political science in the future. Bogdan loves exchanging ideas and meeting different people. He looks forward to the Liberty Camp!
Bohdan Kushpler
Bohdan is 20 years old. He is a Ukrainian, born in Lviv, who is currently studying economics. He is working on a research project on measuring human development efficiency. By participating at the Liberty camp, he hopes to get useful experience that will help him improve his research project. In his free time, Bohdan loves to compose music. He is very happy to have been accepted to the Liberty Camp and looks forward to talking to all of you.
Brindusa Birhala
Having just obtained a BA in Political Science in Bucharest, Brindusa is a strong supporter of civil society, and wishes to strengthen its capabilities and voice in Romania. Brindusa considers education to be paramount in this achievement, as her academic background offered various perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of living in a developing country. Brindusa wishes to become involved in designing and implementing policies and legislation in respect to environmental protection in Romania. Next year, she will be studying in a small academic community in Berlin, the European College of Liberal Arts, focusing on environmental ethics. In Bucharest, Brindusa participated in several projects of the Centre for Institutional Analysis and Development, a libertarian NGO. Being in contact with the young people there, she grew quite fond of the mindset always ready to examine and interpret what everybody takes for granted as liberties or constrains in the permanent and intricate relationship between the individual and the state.
Catinca Hanganu
Catinca is a 22 years old undergraduate student in Bucharest, Romania. She is interested in looking at economics, political science and philosophy from a classical liberal perspective. Catinca plans to continue her studies in the United States, following her year off to work as an intern for pro-market think tanks. She is known for saying, "You are all a bunch of socialists!" in the most inappropriate places, at the most inappropriate times.
Delia Oniga
Delia just graduated in journalism, but she already has a two years work experience at a financial newspaper in Bucharest. In the future, she is determined to do a master's program in anthropology. Delia is still trying to find out what she wants to do with her life (hopefully, she will figure it out soon). Meanwhile, she will try to discover and improve herself.
Diana Maria Deaconescu
Diana lives in Bucharest since 2003. After graduating from the Academy of Economic Studies - Department of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange, Diana enrolled into the master program in Management of Banking Systems. Diana's strong desire is to attend an MA in Economics/Banking abroad. She has not decided which country she will choose, since she is currently in the "research phase". She is working as relationship manager at Alpha Bank Romania. Previously, Diana has worked as loan administrator, mortgage adviser and non-residents manager. Her hobbies include tennis, dancing, music, traveling, banking, and literature. Also, Diana likes changes, a lot of them.
Drazen Cvjetkovic
Drazen was born in Sarajevo. Growing up in Pale, he finished the primary and secondary school there. Drazen is a student of law in his third year. In his free time, Drazen likes to go to the gym and hang out with friends. After graduating from school, Drazen would like to find a job, and to be successful in it.
Elnur Asgarov
Elnur was born in 1985 in Baku, Azerbaijan. He has received bachelor's degree from Azerbaijan University of Foreign Languages, receiving an Honors diploma for very high grades and extensive research activities. Later, Elnur was admitted to the Near East University in Cyprus for a master's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy, and is expecting to graduate in 2009. He loves sports and cars. Elnur wants to pursue a successful career in diplomacy.
Ileana Grigorescu
Ileana comes from Bucharest, Romania. She can�t really tell what makes her different from the other participants until she gets to know them, which she is eager to do. She can say that she is a music & film fanatic, a fruit gourmet, and that no calamity could prevent her from sleeping late if she really feels the need to. Ileana would like to find some common ground with the other participants regarding libertarianism, because she is very passionate about this topic and hopes to approach it in depth through her studies and work.
Ivan Lovre
Ivan lives in Novi Sad in Serbia. Prior to becoming a postgraduate student in economics, Ivan was a research assistant at a business college in Novi Sad. He hopes that one day he will get his PhD in Finance and Banking. Ivan is very interested in economic theory, history and political philosophy. Ivan likes music (hard core, punk and classic) and computers. He is a smoker. His native language is Serbian, but Ivan also speaks English and Slovakian.
Jan Geder
Jan was born on the 19th of August 1986 in Murska Sobota, Slovenia, as the first child of his family. Since then, he lived with his parents and a younger sister in Radenci, a small town in NE Slovenia, where he attended elementary school. At that point in his life, he got interested in natural sciences and technology. Hence, he made a decision to study chemical engineering at the University of Ljubljana, after successfully finishing high school in Ljutomer. This was one of the best decisions in his life. In the last academic year 2007/2008, Jan spent a year studying at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen in Germany as an exchange student.
Jelena Krgovic
Jelena was born in Montenegro. In 1998, she won a scholarship to attend the Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway. Jelena was lucky to spend the next two years of her life in a very diverse community, engaging in its ideals and ethos which, ultimately, broadened her horizon and had a substantial impact on the way she sees the world. Since then, Jelena graduated in Philosophy at University of Philosophy in Belgrade. Jelena is interested in examining the role of the individual within society, and notions relating to one's freedom and rights. She feels compelled to actively engage in the processes that shape these notions and hopefully also to improve them.
Jozef Priputen
Jozef is studying at the Department of Business Management at the University of Economics in Bratislava. He is also working closely with the F. A. Hayek Foundation in the Slovakian capital. Moreover, as a junior analyst, Jozef has been involved in several projects dedicated to supporting and disseminating entrepreneurial education in Slovakia. Currently, he is mainly focused on the introduction of program budgeting within local and regional governments. But his life is not just about work and studying! Jozef also loves music and he plays the guitar a lot :)
Kresimir Cvitanovic
Kreso was born in 1980 in Croatia's capital, Zagreb. He enjoys reading, learning and discussing ideas. Lately, he became more aware of the importance of ideas. Therefore, Kreso quit his job as a computer game developer and applied (and was accepted!) to the College of Philosophy in Zagreb. He'll see where this road takes him.
Luka Vidoni
Luka was born on July 23rd 1988 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Currently, he is studying Corporate Finance and Economics at the University of Ljubljana, and hoping to continue his education in the UK. Luka is very interested in everything related to economy. His particular area of interest is taxation, but also fiscal and monetary policy. He is also concerned about the climate change and would love to come across an idea that would sufficiently connect the free market approach with the preservation of our precious green planet. Also, he would love to know more about liberal ideas and how to implement them. Most importantly, he would like to learn more about consequences of such reforms.
Maria Grynevych
Masha was born on July 23, 1987. She is currently pursuing an MA in the Theory and Methodology of Higher Education at the Faculty of Arts. She is attending the Liberty Camp with a hope to gain a practical realization of what she has read and experienced so far. More than anything else, Masha is searching for a way to understand what is going on in her country.
Milutin Pavicevic
Milutin is studying computer sciences at the University of Mathematics in Podgorica, Montenegro. He was twice a junior champion of Montenegro in programming. Milutin is a chief of IT Staff and a member of the main board of SNS, the largest opposition party in Montenegro. Milutin is also one of the leading press, screen and web designers in Montenegro, with one of the largest and most complete portfolios in the Balkans. Interestingly, he has a great knowledge and experience in the movie and TV industry, in editing and special effects departments. Since 2002, Milutin has been a journalist at "Index" and "M style" magazines. Moreover, he is a comic book artist and cartoon animator and an owner and author of the only award-winning political satire blog "Дериште". He is a practicing Christian Orthodox.
Nemanja Radoja
Nemanja was born in Belgrade on March 31, 1983. His birthday weirdly coincides with a lot of Euro - integrations deadlines and, even freakier, on his maturity day Slobodan Milosevic was arrested :) So far in his life, Nemanja worked as an electrician, radio marketing producer, night watch, market salesman, driver and a lot of other very various short term jobs that he does not even remember anymore. Currently, he works as a locksmith and a sports journalist. Among other, he is very interested in languages-just try to address him in French, Spanish, Italian or English! ;) He is also very interested in sports, being a professional water-polo player for a while. Currently, Nemanja is a co-coach of a karate team near his home place. He is 184cm tall and weights around 100 kg.
Rok Spruk
Rok lives in Kamnik, a midsized town north of Ljubljana. He studies international economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. His primary fields of interest are macroeconomics, international economics, microeconomics and applied econometrics. His research interests include: economic growth, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade and development, game theory in econometrics and transition in Eastern Europe. As a devoted classical liberal, Rok reads extensively on economic history, history of libertarianism, libertarian philosophy and U.S economic and political history. His favorite authors are: Robert Nozick, Milton Friedman, James M. Buchanan, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand and F.A. von Hayek.
Srdjan Lalovic
Srdjan was born in Sarajevo on September 2nd, 1986. He finished a primary and secondary school in Pale, where he lives and studies. Srdjan is a student of law, and next month he will be in his third year. In his free time, Srdjan plays the guitar and hangs out with friends. After agraduating, Srdjan hopes to be a successful lawyer.
Urska Zagar (aka Ursulla)
Ursulla comes from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. She studies business economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. Beside business economics, entrepreneurship and management, Ursulla is interested in human resource development and global communication. She believes that knowledge in economics and resource development is the key to a successful career in business and entrepreneurship. Recently, she has been introduced to classical liberal thought. She believes that free markets, the rule of law and limited government lead to a free and prosperous economy.
Vasko Dragovic
Vasko was born on August 23rd, 1984 in Berane, Montenegro. He also attended a high-school in Berane. Currently, he is studying at the University of Montenegro Law School in Bijelo Polje. Vasko is a very communicative, reliable, sociable and open-minded person. He would like to improve himself and meet new people.
Vera Milenkovic
My name is Zverka or Verka Zverka. MI 6 is sending me to Slovenia to prepare the field for the Queen. I am a stubborn, talkative and naughty agent, but faithful and funny--you should remember that :) Secret code is: "LIBERTY CAMP", in case something goes wrong... I am co-operative, and I hope that I will travel more in the future and learn, and also teach history, law, human rights in some exotic parts of our world!
Victor Popa
Victor is a 22-year-old from Galati, southeast of Romania. He is still working on his BA thesis on the role of religion in Tocqueville's political thought and hopefully will graduate this winter--he's already running late :D Viktor is also planning to apply soon for a PhD in political philosophy somewhere in Europe and after that, well, he�ll figure out the rest.
Вікторія Нікітюк / Viktoria Nikityuk
Viktoria obtained a bachelor's degree in economics and entrepreneurship from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She is working as a project manager in marketing and is interested in questions related to international trade and free-market economy. During the Liberty Camp, she hopes to apply the ideas of classical-liberalism in developing countries like her own. In her free time, she enjoys being active; she loves caving (speleology), cycling, traveling, skiing, and having "beer fun" with her friends. In addition, she likes jazz, art, and tres to enjoy every moment of her life. Viktoria's motto is "feel free, do what you like, and like what you do!"
Zoltan Kesz
Zoltan is a 34-year-old teacher from Hungary. Eight years ago, he had the opportunity to teach American History to American high school students in California, for a whole year. He is also heading a publishing company which is going to publish two books by Ayn Rand in the near future. In order to change the present system of politics in his country, Zoltan is determined to spread the ideas of Rand, Hayek, Locke and other similar thinkers.
