Filipe Martins SJ - Director
Filipe Martins SJ is the Director of JESC since September 2022. He arrived to the team in September 2021, for the organisation of the JCEP Loyola 2022 Justice and Ecology Congress. He graduated and worked in Lisbon as an Electronics Engineer, spent a year in Mozambique as a volunteer, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1995. He has worked since then in university pastoral care, education, safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, and extensively in the social field.
Email:Â filipe.martins@jesc.euÂ
Botond Feledy
Botond Feledy is JESC’s Deputy-Director. He is currently serving as the Secretary for Leadership at JESC and managing the European Leadership Programme (ELP). He worked in the Hungarian province of the Jesuits as rector of St Ignatius College, later as director of the Institute for Social Reflection. In 2017 he was elected as member of the #NewEurope100. He is juris doctor, alumni of SciencesPo, GMF, IVLP and DAAD.
Email: botond.feledy@jesc.eu
Benoit Willemaers SJ
Benoit Willemaers SJ is JESC’s Secretary for European Affairs and has started working for JESC in June 2023. He joined the Society of Jesus in Belgium in 2006 and has since worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service-Belgium, as university chaplain at the University of Namur and in various youth and spiritual apostolates. Before joining the Society, he graduated from the University of Liège in Political Sciences and Public Administration before completing a Master of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Europe in Natolin.
Email:Â benoit.willemaers@jesc.eu
Gaël Giraud SJ
Gaël Giraud SJ joined JESC as Senior Officer in September 2025. He studied Economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and ENSAE, earned an Applied Mathematics’ PhD on Strategic Market Games at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and joined the French CNRS-National Centre of Scientific Research in 1999, where he still holds a position as a Director of Research. Following civil service in Chad, where he taught at a local school and founded a shelter for street children, Gaël entered the Jesuits in 2004. Since his ordination in 2013, he worked as the Chief Economist of the AFD-French Agency of Development between 2015 and 2019, and received another PhD on the Political Theology of the Commons at Centre Sèvres in Paris. Most recently, he directed the Environmental Justice Programme at Georgetown University, before moving to Brussels in 2024. His recent research has been oriented towards issues related to the ecological transition and social inequalities, while he has authored books and articles and collaborated with different universities and institutions.
Email: gael.giraud@jesc.eu
Béla Kuslits
Béla Kuslits works as Senior Officer in the Ecology team of JESC focusing on environmental policy and in the ecological transition of the wider network of the European Jesuits. Béla graduated in medicine, sociology and anthropology at CEU and holds a PhD in environmental management. Before joining JESC, among other projects he has worked for the Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary, for Birdlife Hungary, the Ecological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Email: bela.kuslits@jesc.eu
Eleonora Vitale
Eleonora Vitale is JESC Development Consultant. She has been involved as collaborator of the Jesuit since 2018 firstly in assisting the re-organization of the Brussels office and in the development of new leadership and youth projects. She contributed to the launch of the Ignatian leadership training for young professional ELP. Currently, she collaborates with the Director and Deputy Director to create a development plan and to provide strategic opportunities for increased fundraising and development of JESC and the related networks. She is a multilingual Project Manager with particular reference to Development, Networking and Fundraising. She holds a Double Degree Master’s in International politics and Economic Relations from the University of Macerata and MGIMO University. She also holds an Executive Degree on Development Law, Policy and Advocacy from University Sant’Anna of Pisa and Caritas Internationalis.Â
Email:Â eleonora.vitale@jesc.eu
Enikő Fehéreková
Enikő supports the advocacy work of the Ecology Department and manages administrative tasks at JESC. She joined the organization in December 2021 and served as the ELP Officer until early 2024. Of Hungarian origin from Slovakia, Enikő volunteered with AIESEC, Learning Enterprises, and Erasmus+ during her university studies, and helped organize the annual summer university for Hungarian minorities in Slovakia. She holds degrees in Translation, Interpreting, and Business.
Email: eniko.feherekova@jesc.eu
Telmo Olascoaga
Telmo Olascoaga Michel is JESC´s Ecology Officer and works at the intersection between Ecology, International Economics, Public Policy and Justice. Telmo holds a Double BA in Law and Business Management from the University of Deusto and a Double Master’s Degree in International Relations and International Political Economy from King´s College London. A former Trainee at the European External Action Service, he has previously worked on Human Rights and European Governance and is passionate about International Development, Green Economics and Transnational Law.
Email: telmo.olascoaga@jesc.eu
Colm Fahy
Colm Fahy works in the Ecology team of JESC focusing on advocacy. His interests can be found in the intersection between human rights and ecology with just transition being one particular focus. Colm has a Masters in World History and Cultures from King’s College London and previously worked at the Jesuit’s international development office in the UK before moving to Brussels.
Email: colm.fahy@jesc.euÂ
Lucia Trubenová
Lucia Trubenová is the European Leadership Programme (ELP) Officer. She holds a Master in International Politics from KU Leuven. Before joining the JESC team in March 2024, Lucia interned for NGOs in Slovakia, Belgium and Denmark with Erasmus + Projects or the European Solidarity Corps, focusing especially on youth engagement.Â
Email:Â lucia.trubenova@jesc.eu
Stella Cheng
Stella Cheng is the JESC Communications Officer, contributing to strategic communication and public outreach across the Centre’s flagship programmes. Her work brings together skillful stroytelling, visual media and Catholic social values in the European context. Stella holds a Master’s in Cultural Studies from KU Leuven, and pursued studies in Theology. She previously worked in European policy consulting, managed EU project communications and conducted original research on EU cultural policy. She also has experience coordinating projects and events across various academic and institutional contexts.
Email: stella.cheng@jesc.eu
ABOUT US
Jesuit European Social Centre
Chaussée de Wavre 205, 1050 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 (0) 465 38 99 34
Email:Â info@jesc.eu
Applications: apply@jesc.eu