Leading  Zinc Network 's  USAID-funded project to support financial sustainability of independent digital media in Central Europe through a combination of grant support, hands-on training workshops, and expert guidance and mentoring, including: coordinated expert support and mentoring for independent media outlets  in designing audience dashboards, social media best practice, newsletter development, and short-form video, reaping results, including The average digital platform audience growth rate of 151%; oversaw grant support to media partners with a view to growing audiences and revenue and to building sustainable financial models; launched CEMediaTrends, an annual event on the latest trends and tools available to online media outlets, and hands-on workshops for more than 80 representatives of CE media outlets.

  Lead international expert on policy dialogue and participatory tools for civil society actors and government officials in 11 countries: advised local authorities in Ukraine, Georgia, Kosovo, and Armenia on policy dialogue; promoted Civil Participation in Democratic Decision-Making in Ukraine, including designing a Participatory Democracy Academy for civil society organisations and public officials resulting in tools on policy dialogue and participatory budgeting, including for schools, now applied in Georgia and Moldova; authored Council of Europe studies and guidelines on civil participation in policymaking;  led multi-stakeholder workshops and participatory schools in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, mentoring local government officials and civil society representatives in Ukraine on citizens’ engagement, AI and smart cities (smart cities education in schools).

NEW DIPLOMACY - placing strategic thinking and security at the heart of international relations.   NEW DIPLOMACY was launched in 2015 to address the policy challenges facing global and regional policymakers in the eastern and southern neighbourhoods of the European Union, not least the insecurity in the post-Soviet space and the crises of democracy and instability in the Middle East. In May 2016, New Diplomacy launched an Independent Journalism Fellowship for Eastern Partnership Countries, an initiative to raise standards of journalism covering the post-Soviet space, in particular the Eastern Partnership countries of Ukraine and Georgia. The programme included placements of journalists from Ukraine with ZDF public television and Spiegel Online in Germany, and another with Eastbook.eu in Poland. In all three of these cases, the journalists also wrote a range of stories , and contributed to other stories, for their host media and their home media back in Ukraine. A high-leve...

As the first Executive Director of PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society), Jeff conceived and implemented seminars training think-tank directors and their staff in strategic communications, developed an advocacy handbook for civil society on influencing EU policymaking, and oversaw the emergence of PASOS as one of the leading civil society networks in the region. PASOS is a network of independent policy centres spanning 28 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Achievements: Jeff took strategic leadership in projects and civil society development in the Western Balkans and in the EU’s eastern neighbours (in 2011-12 he successfully lobbied the European Commission to launch the European Neighbourhood Policy Civil Society Facility), and diversified the funding base of PASOS. Highlights included: Designed and led key projects, resulting for example in a breakthrough in relations between the Eastern Partner countries and the EU (with projects on free tr...

Jeff Lovitt served as Director of Communications at the international secretariat of Transparency International (TI)  in Berlin, Germany, from 2000-2005. Jeff managed  a staff of 11 and department budget of € 1.2 million (2004 figures) in the media relations, print publications and online resources departments at the Transparency International (TI) Secretariat, the global headquarters of the leading international non-governmental organisation fighting corruption worldwide.  Reporting to Chief Executive and Chairman, and deputising for the Chief Executive, responsibilities included:  Developing global advocacy strategies, maintaining public awareness of the issue of corruption, and keeping arguments for good governance and corporate social responsibility at the top of agenda of key global institutions (e.g. leading corporations, World Bank and regional development banks, OECD, UN); Advising Board of Directors on strategic communications and reputation manag...

  Time to End Putin's Impunity   by Jeff Lovitt and Jan Piekło,  bne IntelliNews , 10 June 2021 Do We Trust Democracy? A Future Agenda for Europe , an Open Government Partnership publication (Chapter by Jeff Lovitt: "Does the EU Want What Its Neighbours Need?"), Open Government Partnership, May 2019 Eastern Partnership Index 2017. Charting Progress in European Integration, Democratic Reforms, and Sustainable Development   (Editor in Chief: Jeff Lovitt), Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, December 2018, ISBN 978-2-930970-01-1   Regulatory Impact Assessment and Public Consultations: Comparative Models, Lessons Learned & Recommendations for Belarus   by Goran Forbici and Jeff Lovitt, Council of Europe, July 2018 Eastern Partnership Index 2015-2016. Charting Progress in European Integration, Democratic Reforms, and Sustainable Development   (Editor in Chief: Jeff Lovitt), Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, December 2017, ISBN 978-2-930...

August 2015- Member, Roster of Experts,  GPSA (Global Partnership for Social Accountability),  World Bank January-June 2015 and again since January 2017, Member,  Advisory Group on Media Freedom in the Eastern Partnership countries , chaired in 2015 by the Latvian Presidency of the EU Council and in 2017 by the European Commission 2011-2012, 2013-2014: President and Co-Chair, Steering Committee,  Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum October 2013: Founding member,  Partnership For Transparency Fund, e.V.,  Munich, a non-profit fund supporting anti-corruption efforts by civil society organisations in Europe and worldwide (German affiliate of PTF in USA) 2012-2013: Chair of Board,  DEMAS - Association for Democracy Assistance & Human Rights,  Czech Republic 2010: Jury member, Journalism Prize 2010, Czech Republic,  Open Society Foundation Prague 2008-2009: Member, Advisory Board,  United Nations Human Development Policy Ne...