Slovak fellow elected to Parliament

15 years on from his Fellowship and 20 years after his last speech there, Mikulas Huba (MNP 97, Slovakia) has been elected to the Slovak Parliament as part of the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities’ Party, which won a total of 16 seats.

Happy New Year

All the best for 2012 to all Eisenhower Fellows, in Europe and beyond. May this be a year of many contacts amongst us all, with as many as possible recorded here!

Latest news on European fellows

The latest news on the Eisenhower Fellowships website has news of several European fellows:

Irina Anghel (MNP 08, Romania) presents at TECHVENTURE 2011 in Singapore

Elena Panfilova (MNP 09, Russia) is elected to the global board of Transparency International

Dr Susan Baragwanath (MNP 94, New Zealand) has moved to the Hague, where her husband will be President of the Hague Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Fellow elected mayor

We send warmest Eisenhower Fellowship congratulations to Won Soon Park (MNP 99, Korea), newly elected mayor of Seoul, South Korea.

Alumni Council meets in Turkey

The EF Alumni Council met in Istanbul on 18 September. Former Turkish President and Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel (54) was present and wrote about his Eisenhower experience for a large Turkish daily. Fellows from all over the world were there and the buzz seems to have been very postitive!

Irish Fellow at Clinton Global Initiative

Caroline Casey (Ireland, MNP 07) recently spoke at the Clinton Global Iniatitive gathering, in a session on Value-Based Leadership. Her inspirational appearance, talking about her work on business and disability, starts about 35 minutes into the online video.

Hungarian Fellow hosts George Washington Uni visitors

As a result of her fellowship, Dr. Tunde Tatrai (MNP Hungary, 2011) hosted Professor Chris Yukins and Professor Steve Schooner of George Washington University Law School in Budapest on May 24 and 25, only one week after she completed her fellowship. She organized a conference for them at the Bar Association of Hungary, two presentations at Corvinus University of Budapest and at the Chamber of Commerce of Budapest. In addition, she arranged some meetings with decision-makers, a member of the Constitutional Court and the Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest. The visit was a golden opportunity to develop and strengthen her network within Hungary and to continue building international connections. 

A photo slideshow of the visit is available.

Belgium/EU Fellows announce their event for Eisenhower Day of Fellowship

To mark the Eisenhower Day of Fellowship, the Belgium/EU Association has today announced a special gathering on 15 October 2011 to watch the play “A Louer” at the KVS, the Royal Flemish Theatre, run by Jan Goossens (MNP 2009, Belgium). The play follows a number of tenants within an apartment building. The show will be followed by a reception for Fellows and their guests. Any other fellows who will be in Brussels on 15 October are encouraged to contact the Belgium/EU fellows via the contact form page to register their interest.

Belgian Fellow appointed to new post

Michael Voordeckers (MNP 2010, Belgium) has been appointed by Hill & Knowlton International Belgium as Associate Director on the EU Public Affairs team.

Hungarian Fellow publishes new book

Csaba Mako (MNP 87, Hungary) has published a new book, Working It Out? The Labour Process and Employment Relations in the Knowledge Economy.

The book is the fruit of number of years of collaboration amongst a group of experts (labour lawyers, economists, sociologists) with a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and multinational background. It draws together a series of studies investigating different dimensions of this change centred on the reconfiguration of the labour process and employment relations within the context of institutional transformation. Hungary, as with most of the Central and East European (CEE) post-socialist countries, is affected by these changes. Almost twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, these countries are still groping their way forward as capitalist systems, and their still transforming politics, civil society and economies are creating a variety of models of capitalism in the region. Whether these models are transitional or more permanent remains to be seen.

The book is available for online purchase.