Organisation: The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)

Nilda Bullain (Hungary) is executive director of the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), promoting an enabling legal environment for civil society in Europe. ECNL was previously operated as the Budapest branch office of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), an organization headquartered in Washington, DC, where Bullain has been serving as senior legal advisor. She has worked on NGO legal reform in several Central European countries joining the EU. She has expertise in legal and fiscal areas concerning NGO and civil society development, particularly the NGO-government cooperation framework, NGO taxation, philanthropy, public benefit status, volunteering and delivery of social services. Prior to joining ICNL, Bullain was executive director of the Civil Society Development Foundation Hungary (CSDF), a leading resource and support center for NGOs in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe.