Beata Olahova
Project evaluator
Beata Olahova works at the Roma Education Fund in Budapest, Hungary, as manager of the grants programme.
With a Masters Degree in Business Administration in her pocket in 2007, Beata Olahova has been through a lot of human rights actions before working for the Roma Education Fund.
Among others, she worked at the European Roma Rights Center as a legal monitor for Slovakia where she was involved in human rights monitoring and fact-finding missions and worked to investigate potential cases of discrimination and human rights abuse. She also worked at the League of Human Rights Advocates in Bratislava, Slovakia, as a project manager.
As a Roma women activist, she represented Romani women at the United Nations office in Geneva in 2004; she was a member of the delegation of the government of Slovak Republic to the annual meeting of the United Nations commission on the status of women , which took place at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2005; she advocated for Romani women issues at the 10th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights in 2005 at Bangkok, Thailand; she represented Romani women at the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2005.
As a student of the post graduate Roma Diplomacy program of the European Roma Information office and the Diplo foundation, she participated and contributed to the international conference on Roma Diplomacy, A Challenge for European Institutions?, in Brussels in 2005.
