Candidates for 2012 Election

Nilda Bullain

Ms. Nilda Bullain is Vice President – Operations of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), working to improve the legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation around the world.  Ms. Bullain joined the Washington, DC office of ICNL in July 2012; previously since 2004 she has been Executive Director of the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), aiming to promote an enabling environment for civil society in Europe.  Ms. Bullain serves as a member of the Civil Society Advisory Committee to the Administrator at UNDP; as a Young Global Leader she is also a member of the community of the World Economic Forum.

Prior to joining ECNL, Ms. Bullain was Executive Director of the Civil Society Development Foundation Hungary (CSDF), a leading resource and support center for NGOs in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. Before her involvement with CSDF, Ms. Bullain worked as a parliamentary aide in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament and assisted the Alliance of Free Democrats. She currently she serves on the Supervisory Board of Transparency International Hungary and of the Free Market Foundation. Ms. Bullain graduated from the Faculty of Law at ELTE University, Budapest.