Nina Križnik
Zveza potrošnikov Slovenije (Slovene Consumer Association)
Biography
Nina Križnik holds a degree in Food Science and Nutrition and works for the Slovene Consumers' Association ZPS. At ZPS, she participates in different national and European projects, focusing on promoting public health, nutrition recommendations, food labelling and food safety. Nina is also part of Consumers International's Next Generation Leaders Network.
Speaker session
EC-UNCTAD workshop - Panel 2: Next generation of product safety ambassadors
2022 being the European Year of Youth and to conclude the week on the new horizons of product safety, we will look at the new generation of product safety ambassadors. What do they see as the most important product safety topics? What is their advice for effective communication towards the younger population on product safety issues? What do they think should be looked at in terms of new horizons?
Speakers:
- Elizabeth Iberico Robles - Head of department, ASPEC (social organisation promoting consumer rights in Peru)
- Nina Križnik- Zveza potrošnikov Slovenije (Slovene Consumer Association)
- Mihaela-Magdalena Margel, Web communication consultant, Product Safety and Rapid Alert System Unit, European Commission
- Ugochi Obidiegwu- Social Development Strategist, Founder of The Safety Chic (a child safety social enterprise) and UGIP Foundation (non-profit organization)
- Akshay Yadav- Teaching Associate, National Law School of India University
Mihaela Magdalena Margel
Web communication consultant, Product Safety and Rapid Alert System Unit, European Commission
Biography
Mihaela Magdalena Margel is a Web communication consultant at the European Commission for the Product Safety and Rapid Alert System Unit. She contributes to the streamlining and editing of content for the website, developing strategies to reach consumer’s attention and ensuring the system’s public interface adequately informs the public about products posing risks. She assists the Consumer Safety Network (CSN), Safety Gate contact points and other external users on how to best proceed when providing the Commission with information on products posing risks to consumers, and on measures taken to address such risks. In addition, she works on Campaigns for the consumes, in collaboration with different stakeholders such as Health Canada, and she follows the development of the Artificial intelligence (AI), connected products and future challenges in product safety.
She started her journey in the product safety field as a former (Blue Book) trainee in the Product Safety and Rapid Alert System Unit.
She is a graduate of a Double Degree Program at the University of Padova in Italy and Jagiellonian University in Poland, at the Centre of European Studies (where she obtained a Double Degree in European Studies and Global Communication Policies). She also obtained a Bachelor Degree in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights.
She applies everything she is learning every day to her two passions: safety and performing arts.
Organisation
DG JUST
European Commission
Speaker session
EC-UNCTAD workshop - Panel 2: Next generation of product safety ambassadors
2022 being the European Year of Youth and to conclude the week on the new horizons of product safety, we will look at the new generation of product safety ambassadors. What do they see as the most important product safety topics? What is their advice for effective communication towards the younger population on product safety issues? What do they think should be looked at in terms of new horizons?
Speakers:
- Elizabeth Iberico Robles - Head of department, ASPEC (social organisation promoting consumer rights in Peru)
- Nina Križnik- Zveza potrošnikov Slovenije (Slovene Consumer Association)
- Mihaela-Magdalena Margel, Web communication consultant, Product Safety and Rapid Alert System Unit, European Commission
- Ugochi Obidiegwu- Social Development Strategist, Founder of The Safety Chic (a child safety social enterprise) and UGIP Foundation (non-profit organization)
- Akshay Yadav- Teaching Associate, National Law School of India University
Neville Matthew
General Manager, Australia Competition and Consumer Commission
Biography
Neville Matthew is a General Manager in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. He has been working on consumer product safety since 2013. Neville also has experience across chemical regulation, environmental protection and managing financial risks to major public programs. Neville started his public sector career in law enforcement in 1986.
Neville has been actively participating in the OECD’s Working Party for Consumer Product Safety since 2015 and was appointed as the Chair of the Working Party as of 1 January 2019. Neville has also represented Australia since November 2018 on the consumer product safety expert Working Group formed by UNCTAD.
Speaker session
EC-UNCTAD workshop - Panel 2: Next generation of product safety ambassadors
2022 being the European Year of Youth and to conclude the week on the new horizons of product safety, we will look at the new generation of product safety ambassadors. What do they see as the most important product safety topics? What is their advice for effective communication towards the younger population on product safety issues? What do they think should be looked at in terms of new horizons?
Speakers:
- Elizabeth Iberico Robles - Head of department, ASPEC (social organisation promoting consumer rights in Peru)
- Nina Križnik- Zveza potrošnikov Slovenije (Slovene Consumer Association)
- Mihaela-Magdalena Margel, Web communication consultant, Product Safety and Rapid Alert System Unit, European Commission
- Ugochi Obidiegwu- Social Development Strategist, Founder of The Safety Chic (a child safety social enterprise) and UGIP Foundation (non-profit organization)
- Akshay Yadav- Teaching Associate, National Law School of India University