Secretariat

Aleksandar Šušnjar joined EQAR on 9 September 2024. Prior to this, Aleksandar was the YUFE (European Universities Alliance) Institutional Coordinator of the University of Rijeka (UNIRI), in which capacity he coordinated the involvement of UNIRI in the YUFE Alliance and worked on the European degree initiative, development of YUFE educational offer and multilateral mobility schemes.

His professional experience includes contribution to European projects, policy-making bodies and expert groups dealing with inter-institutional cooperation, quality of higher education, social dimension, student engagement, and qualification frameworks. Between 2021 and 2024, he was a member of the EQAR Register Committee.

Aleksandar Šušnjar is a Master of Arts (Philosophy and English language and literature – teaching track) at the University of Rijeka and is currently following a PhD programme in Philosophy at the same university.

Mobile: +32 485 395 460
Email: aleksandar.susnjar@eqar.eu

Giorgi Munjishvili joined the Secretariat in January 2024.

Giorgi holds  a master degree in Education Administration from the Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and did a one-year mobility in Political Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany). Giorgi worked at the European University in Tbilisi as Head of the Strategic Development Office, and before that as Head of Quality Assurance and Strategic Development.

He also worked at NCEQE, the National Center For Educational Quality Enhancement (one of EQAR’s registered agencies) as Deputy Head of Planning, Research, and International Relations.

Phone: +32 489 19 68 17
Email: giorgi.munjishvili@eqar.eu

Blazhe Todorovski joined the Secretariat in October 2022. Blazhe holds a master degree in corporate law (LLM) from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Before joining EQAR he worked as a Review Officer at MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement, quality assurance agency for higher music education. Blazhe also served as Vice President of the European Students’ Union (2015-2017).

Mobile: + 32 488 37 87 48
Email: blazhe.todorovski@eqar.eu

Annelies Traas joined the EQAR Secretariat in 2009. She has a Master Degree in European Studies (Amsterdam) and complemented her degree with a post-graduate degree in European Law (Bilbao, Spain).

Annelies was Acting Head of the Secretariat for the period of 27 March 2024 until 9 September 2024. During this period she was responsible for the daily management of the EQAR Secretariat, including financial management and HR, preparing the meetings of EQAR’s Board, the General Assembly and the Register Committee, ensuring regular communication with the EQAR members, registered agencies and other key partners and external representation.

Previously, Annelies has held various positions (operations manager, legal advisor, director of the board of an international pre-school in New-York) in different fields of expertise (non-profit organisations, business incubation, financial services, education), based in different countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Malta, USA and Austria).

Mobile: +32 474 9009 74
Email: annelies.traas@eqar.eu

Pooja joined the EQAR Secretariat in November 2020 as staff member, having worked already for EQAR in 2019 as temporary agency worker to coordinate the DEQAR project financial reporting.

She has a Master degree from KU Leuven in International Business Economics and Management, and a degree in Commerce from India. Prior to joining EQAR she worked as a tax consultant, project reporting officer, finance assistant and tax analyst at various international organisations, based in India, Belgium and London.

Mobile: +32 474 98 74 04
Email: pooja.venkatesh@eqar.eu

Aleksandra Zhivkovikj joined the Secretariat in July 2020. She holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University “SS. Cyril and Methodius”-Skopje and a master’s degree in educational policies and development from the University of Oslo, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Malta. She has been working in the civil society sector in North Macedonia for a few years, participating in several research projects about higher education, exploring topics such as malpractices in academia, disadvantaged groups in higher education, student services and guidance, student activism and organising. Before joining the Secretariat, Aleksandra worked as a consultant at the OECD’s Directorate for Education and Skills.

Mobile: +32 488 04 59 52
Email: aleksandra.zhivkovikj@eqar.eu