Suncica Sazdovska holds a Master's degree in International Management from the Institute of Economy at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, with her thesis focused on strategic management. She brings over 25 years of professional experience in capacity building, democracy, and civil society development, serving as a project manager and consultant on numerous national and international projects.

Her expertise lies in designing, developing and delivering development interventions and capacity-building programmes — including capacity-building needs assessments, stakeholder mapping, capacity-building plans, training, mentoring and organisational development. She has facilitated multi-stakeholder processes, institutional strengthening and networking initiatives, with a strong focus on creating an enabling environment for civil society organisations in North Macedonia and the Western Balkans.

Her skills cover strategic management and planning, project and programme management, human resource management, partnership building, and monitoring and evaluation, as well as a deep understanding of CSO capacities and related EU policies and donor funding mechanisms. She is also the author and co-author of several publications, manuals, reports and articles in the field of civil society, such as “Needs assessment of CSOs in Macedonia”, “Human Resource Management for CSOs”, “Civil Society Index in Macedonia” and “Citizen participation”.

Slavko Sazdovski has over 20 years of professional experience in roles requiring coordination, organisation, planning and assessment, as well as the development and delivery of training within international projects and projects in the private and public sector. He holds a Master's degree in economic sciences from the International Management programme at the Institute of Economics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.

Since 2008 he has worked in management roles in financial institutions: until 2017 as Training and Development Manager at Ohridska Banka — Société Générale Group, from 2017 as Director of Human Resources and Academy at Croatia Osiguruvanje Život AD Skopje, and since 2023 in the same role at Triglav Osiguruvanje Život AD Skopje.

His expert work centres on human resource development across the private, public and civil sectors — recruitment and selection, talent development, performance appraisal, leadership, mentoring and talent management. He has designed and delivered more than 1,500 days of training covering sales techniques, customer relationship management, leadership and managerial skills, team management, negotiation, communication and presentation skills, human resource management and emotional intelligence.

He is a certified Genos Emotional Intelligence practitioner (Swinburne University of Technology) and a certified Strengths Coach (Gallup methodology), and holds trainer competence certificates from Jönköping University for Social Science in Sweden at levels A, B and B+. He is a member of the Management Board of the Macedonian Human Resources Association and a guest lecturer at several universities in North Macedonia.