Milesh Gordhandas Email & Phone Number

Brussels Area, Belgium

A full-time, permanent job, with three promotions since Sep 2007: from Assistant Europe Representative (2013), from Coordinator – Europe Representative Office (2015) and from Advisor - Europe Office (2020). Functions (past and present) include:• Membership and Academics: researching prospective new members and outreaching through telephone, email and face-to-face, with support of SalesForce.com; managing the cooperation with a law students’ association and delivering presentations to visiting groups of students; daily user of Impexium, our association management software.• Marketing: implementing marketing partnerships with relevant organisations; preparing and managing the stand of the Association when exhibiting at external events; contacting members and prospective members to promote events in Europe;• Committee liaison: staff liaison of the Young Practitioners Committee and the Brands and Innovation Committee, supporting volunteer members in achieving Committee objectives. Former staff liaison to two “Europe and Central Asia” subcommittees (Famous and Well-Known Marks; Non-traditional Marks).• Interns: managing the office’s internship programme including recruitment, selection, training and supervision of interns.• Communications: exploring visibility opportunities with Brussels-based media; coordinating with Communications Manager on interviews with Association representatives; managing and writing content for selected social media channels including Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook;• Public Policy: monitoring activities of relevant EU Institutions; setting up meetings with relevant Members of European Parliament and officials from the European Commission and Permanent Representations of Member-States; attending and reporting back on relevant meetings and events.

London, United Kingdom

Marketing: a full-time, permanent job as Membership Administrator and Marketing Assistant. Promoted from an internship position as Marketing Assistant in September 2005. Responsible for: • Managing and updating the database of members and non-members and entering new data;• Managing the collection of subscriptions and of delegate attendance fees at major events;• Supporting membership development activities by following up with non-members attending our events;• Assisting in the setting up of our reception room for in-house events and representing the Association when we sponsor external events;• Updating and managing the website content (diary of events, directory of members) and web-searching potential delegates for our events

London, United Kingdom

Market Research: a shift-based job as a Project Administrator, Quality Supervisor (promoted March 2004) and Senior Telephone Interviewer. A trilingual role with tasks such as: • Proof-reading translations from English into Portuguese, testing Portuguese- and Spanish-language surveys on our appropriate software and reporting on issues found (as Project Administrator)• Briefing, monitoring, evaluating and coaching interviewers (as Supervisor);• Conducting business-to-business and consumer surveys in the UK, Spain, Portugal and Latin America, in our appropriate CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview) software (as Interviewer).

Executive Education: Accelerated Management Programme, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

A 17-day (spread over 5 months) intensive general management training for professionals with no previous education in management..

Ba Combined Honours, International Relations And European Studies, Upper Second Class Honours (2:1)

Modules included: Modern European History 1905-1989; European Security; EU Foreign Policy; Foreign Policy Analysis; International.

International Relations, Social Sciences

First Year completed. Modules included: Introduction to Social Sciences; Introduction to Law; Theories of International Relations.