Our Structure
Kopin is directed by a Board of experts who are passionate about fostering social justice, sustainable development and human rights.
Our day-to-day work on global education, migrant support and development cooperation in East Africa is managed by an equally passionate team of culturally diverse professionals, who are staff members, collaborators and volunteers.
Our Board Members
William was a board member of SKOP (Solidarjetà u Koperazzjoni – the National Platform of Maltese Development NGOs – VO/0366) between May 2007 and November 2017. He is national focal point of the Maltese AidWatch Working Group of SKOP and helped set up the Development Education and Awareness Raising working group. He represents SKOP in CONCORD structures, particularly in advocacy and monitoring of international aid for sustainable development.
William enjoys reading, travelling, good food and spending time by the sea. He has a keen interest in Italian football, especially strategy and tactics, the arts and global politics.
In his work, he focuses on strategic planning, project development, team management, networking, training, advocacy and research. Dominik is a Steering Committee member for Destination Unknown, an initiative for the rights of children and youth on the move, and the coordinator for the campaign’s efforts in the Euro-Mediterranean region (Europe, MENA). He is active in Malta’s Development NGO platform SKOP and its working groups AidWatch and DEAR and represents Kopin in the planning group for the ‘Free the #ElHiblu3’ campaign.
In his free time, Dominik enjoys outdoor activities with his family, friends and dogs, travelling, good food and the sea. He is passionate about other cultures, education and experiential learning as well as global politics.
Michael has been involved in different development NGOs since 1983 and has participated in various activities and campaigns, occupying different roles along the years. His main interests are advocacy work in relation to development policy, as well as capacity building. He has represented Kopin in seminars and meetings both locally and on a European level, and has experience in a number of development cooperation initiatives. He is Kopin’s liaison officer with Eurostep and Social Watch. He is also the coordinator of SKOP’s AidWatch Working Group.
Her main research interests primarily lie in the migration-human rights nexus. She has mainly used ethnography as a method in the larger projects, other forms of qualitative methods and policy analysis for shorter projects. Daniela has published on irregular migration, deportation, human rights, EU migration policies, EU border policies. although she has also produced work in other fields notably citizenship, children’s rights and social policy. Her work has been published internationally in academic journals and books. Daniela has volunteered for many years with different non-governmental organisations in the field of justice, human rights and migration with local, national and global interests.
Stefano’s recent research activities include health and economic assessments, in the face of climate change, of urban communities in Africa and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Prior to join academia, Stefano worked in the Italian Parliament as manager and policy analyst. He also worked as a consultant in several development projects based in Albania, Mexico, Mali and Ethiopia, mainly in relation to socio-economic, health, and environmental funded activities. He has worked with the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) as senior research officer, where he was in charge of the development of impact assessment tools. Stefano is also member of the board of the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta, and part of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI). He is active in numerous outreach and knowledge-transfer initiatives, including training courses and consultation sessions for public, private, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
Our Executive Team
She is primarily involved in the planning, supervision and implementation of educational and awareness-raising initiatives targeting the general public as well as primary and secondary schools and University, focusing on topics related to sustainable development, global citizenship, human rights and migration. She also supports the team in the development of international projects and the delivery of training on a variety of topics. Federica coordinates Kopin’s volunteers offering support services to refugees, asylum seekers and other communities in Malta.
Federica is a member of the National Maltese NGDO Platform SKOP’s DEAR Working Group; she represents the platform within CONCORD Europe’s Global Citizenship Education Group, of which she is a Steering Group Member since 2018.
Karen focuses on projects and initiatives that deal with children’s and young people’s rights, refugee and migrant support and gender-based violence. She has an interest in the use of community, empowerment and collaboration as tools to bring about positive change and has a specialist interest in supporting vulnerable populations through this approach, especially within the migrant population. Karen has a background in journalism, in which she completed her first degree, and has done post-graduate studies in sustainability, where she explored the intrinsic links between social and climate justice. Karen enjoys snorkeling and exploring new cultures, cities & wide open spaces.
