Board of Trustees

Daphne Büllesbach is the Executive Director at European Alternatives and a member of the Transnational Board. She coordinates and oversees the annual events of EA, the Transeuropa Festival and the Campus of European Alternatives, alternating each year. In 2012 she founded the Berlin office after having been an activist with EA for a couple of years. She is also a member of the board of the German think tank Institut Solidarische Moderne which looks at the potential and pathway of a red-red-green government on the federal level in Germany.

Previously, she worked in social science research and the evaluation of government programmes. She also has a background in international humanitarian and development organisations in Kenia, Morocco, Argentina and Belgium. Her studies in European Studies and Social / Political Sciences brought her to London, Paris and Cambridge. In case its Thursday, she likes to play volleyball, preferably on sand.

Ségolène is Cultural Director of European Alternatives and coordinates TRANSEUROPA Festival (www.transeuropafestival.eu). She believes that the future of Europe can only be built in one integrates cultural and artistic perspectives as well as political and economic considerations. Ségolène was trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK and Germany. At EA, she has developed an extensive experience in designing and implementing transnational cultural programmes and stimulating volunteers groups around Europe. Ségolène is interested in thematics such as democracy, equality, feminism, migrants & minority rights in Europe. Ségolène is also passionate about the city, public space and the urban environment and has developed activities for EA in that field.

Lorenzo Marsili is a philosopher, activist, and one of the co-founders of European Alternatives. He previously worked in cultural journalism in London and Beijing, where he founded the journal Naked Punch Review. He was the initiator of the European Initiative for Media Pluralism, an international campaign demanding better protection for media pluralism and freedom at European level, and of Transnational Dialogues, a multi-year arts exchange programme between cultural innovators in China, Brazil and Europe. In his book Citizens of Nowhere: How to Save Europe for Itself (Zed Books 2018, written with Niccolo Milanese), he tells the story of European Alternatives within a wider political and philosophical analysis of the crisis of the nation-state. He is a regular commentator on European media and has degrees in philosophy and sinology from the University of London. He tweets @l_marsili