Hello, I’m Androulla Kaminara. I’ve spent much of my career serving in European institutions, culminating in my role as the EU Ambassador to Pakistan. From a young age, I dreamed of becoming a marine geophysicist and filling my passport with visa stamps. That...
Social Dialogue & Civil Society
Androulla Kaminara Interviews Dr Jemilah Mahmood Ahead of COP30
I had the pleasure of seeing again my dear friend Jemilah and interviewing her before she goes to the COP30 meeting in Belem, Brazil. #COP30 Dr Jemilah Mahmood is a world expert on health issues associated with climate change and is the Executive Director of the...
2014 in review – the stats of my blog
The kaminaracom.local/ stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that...
Max Watson, Director of PEFM
It is with great sorrow that I learned today that Max Watson, Director of the Political Economy and Financial Markets Programme at St. Antony's College Oxford has passed away. Max had a brilliant mind, an amazing sense of humour and was a very nice person. A very rare...
SEESOX Sept. Newsletter is out – see my article on the year as Academic Visitor to St.Antony’s College Oxford
http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/seesox/newsletter/Review2014.pdf South East European Studies at Oxford The SEESOX Review No. 10 September 2014 Prime Minister Edi Rama delivers the SEESOX Annual Lecture on reinventing politics in the Balkans Inside this issue: SEESOX Annual...
Community workers in Cyprus – the facts
The recent tragic death of a Romanian mother in front of her 5 year old son in conditions of extreme poverty has reignited discussions on the role of Community workers in Cyprus. Let me start by saying how saddened I am by this tragedy. Unfortunately, most of the...