Board
Josefa Domingos
President - Portugal
Josefa was elected Parkinson's Europe President in 2023, and has served a Board Member since 2020. She is a physiotherapist, and her career has focused on creating and implem... Show More
Gary Boyle
Vice-President - Ireland
Gary was elected Parkinson's Europe Vice-President in 2023, and has served as a Board member since 2021. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife, son and daughter. Gary sp... Show More
Antonella Moretti
Treasurer - Italy
Antonella was elected as Parkinson's Europe Treasurer in 2023, and has served as a Board member since 2021. She spent 25 years managing non-profit organisations at a national... Show More
Andy Butler
Member - UK
Andy was elected as a Parkinson's Europe Board member in 2023. Andy started gathering information about the condition and the challenges people living with Parkinson's face r... Show More
Cvetka Pavlina Likar
Member - Slovenia
Cvetka was was was elected as an Parkinson's Europe Board Member in 2020. She is a biologist, and has been the President of the Slovenian Parkinson's association Društvo Tre... Show More
Brian Magennis
Member - Ireland
Brian was elected as a Parkinson's Europe Board member in 2023. Brian has 22 years of professional expertise as a Parkinson's Nurse Specialist. He works at Mater Hospital in ... Show More
Patricia Pérez Librero
Member - Spain
Patricia was elected as a Parkinson's Europe Board member in 2021. She is a neuropsychologist and she has been working with the Spanish Parkinson's Federation (FEP) since 201... Show More
Tsipi Shaish
Member - Israel
Tsipi was was was elected as a Parkinson's Europe Board Member in 2020. Following her Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2005, she began painting and went on to do so professionally ... Show More
Karl Wouters
Member - Belgium
Karl was elected as a Parkinson's Europe Board Member in 2023. He lives in Belgium, has a Masters in German Philology, is alumnus of the Vlerick Management School and studied ... Show More
Executive Committee
Josefa Domingos
President - Portugal
Josefa was elected Parkinson's Europe President in 2023, and has served a Board Member since 2020. She is a physiotherapist, and her career has focused on creating and implem... Show More
Gary Boyle
Vice-President - Ireland
Gary was elected Parkinson's Europe Vice-President in 2023, and has served as a Board member since 2021. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife, son and daughter. Gary sp... Show More
Antonella Moretti
Treasurer - Italy
Antonella was elected as Parkinson's Europe Treasurer in 2023, and has served as a Board member since 2021. She spent 25 years managing non-profit organisations at a national... Show More
Team
Russell Patten
Director General
Russell, a British-Belgian national, was appointed Parkinson's Europe Director General in 2019. From 2017, he advised the organisation on political advocacy as well as assisti... Show More
Dominic Graham
Operations Director
Dominic was appointed Parkinson's Europe Operations Director in January 2019. He has vast experience in organisation and team management, as well as project development within... Show More
Francesco De Renzis
Partnership Project Manager
Francesco was appointed as Partnership Project Manager in September 2021 having worked with Parkinson's Europe since 2018 as Information Manager and Project Officer. Francesc... Show More
Amelia Hursey
Research Manager
Amelia joined Parkinson's Europe team in January 2022 as Research Manager. She has been working in the field of Neurodegenerative research since 2009. She previously worked f... Show More
Lisa Wong
Finance Manager
Lisa joined Parkinson's Europe in April 2021 as Finance Manager. She has over 20 years' experience in accounting and finance roles across different sectors including hospitali... Show More
Natalie Levenhagen
Membership and Logistics Lead
Natalie is a freelance consultant working with Parkinson's Europe on membership liaison, logistics, and administration support. Her background is in event management, where s... Show More
Fiona Montague
Insight and Engagement Manager
Fiona was appointed Insight and Engagement Manager in September 2022 having worked with Parkinson's Europe since 2020 as Project Manager. Fiona has more than 25 years’ expe... Show More
Laura Vickers-Green
Communications Manager
Laura joined the team in 2022 as a social media consultant and since January 2024, she works as Parkinson's Europe's Communications Manager. She has a decade of experience in... Show More
Adrien Moyroud
Project Support Officer
Adrien joined Parkinson's Europe in 2021. Adrien’s key responsibilities are to support Parkinson's Europe’s advocacy activities and to assist on the organisation’s vario... Show More
Research Steering Group
Alexandra Karadimou
Greece
I am a dietitian passionate about human nutrition and its impact on health disease balance with a piercing interest in neurodegenerative diseases. I am a Ph.D. student at the ... Show More
Ivona Čudová
Czech Republic
I am 51 years old and I live in the Czech republic. I care about my mother, she is 77 years old and will soon be 78. My mother was diagnosed with PD in 2012. Since then I am i... Show More
Jean-Alain Jachiet
Luxembourg
I am an IT guy and can bring to the steering group my experience with IT technology and tools (audio, video, sensors, detection, …) which could help patients and their famil... Show More
Marco Ramelli
Italy
I am 61 years old and living in Florence, Italy. I have been sick with Parkinson from 2016, DAT scan response, but in reality from the beginning of 2015. I work actually in a... Show More
Matthew May
UK
I’m Matthew or Matt (I don’t mind) and I joined Roche in March 2020 as Patient Partnership Director for rare movement disorders. Since autumn 2021 I also lead Patient Part... Show More
Veronica Clark
Malta
I've been a Parkinson's advocate for the past 12 years. I wear many hats including being a healthcare professional working with People with Parkinson's, the daughter of a pare... Show More
Lisa Wynne
Ireland
I'm a Parkinson's nurse specialist working within the Parkinson's role for over 10 years. Living in Dublin, Ireland. I trained as a general nurse initially, with a slight det... Show More
Rita Botelho
Portugal
I am a 40 year old Portuguese product and jewelry designer based in Porto. After traveling around the world and living in different countries (Japan, Italy, Switzerland and Ge... Show More
The Political Advocacy Group (PAG)
Political Advocacy Group
(PAG)
This working group is made up of representatives from member organisations of Parkinson’s Europe. It was established to unite members with a common interest in political adv... Show More