Connecting Eisenhower Fellows in and with Europe
March 30, 2012 Leave a comment
2012 USA Fellow Carol Hibbard, Director for Procurement Financial Analysis at Boeing, will be visiting Belgium in May. During her fellowship she will be looking at issues around women in leadership. We’re sure that the Belgium and EU fellows will give her an excellent welcome.
March 30, 2012 Leave a comment
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.
March 29, 2012 Leave a comment
It’s that time of year when all MNP alumni start feeling nostalgic, remembering their arrival in Philadelphia, and feeling envious of the new cohort. We wish them all the best possible Eisenhower experience over the next two months.
There are 7 Europeans among the 2012 MNP Fellows:
Dr William Crawley, a journalist from Northern Ireland
Pascal Dupeyrat, a strategic investment lobbyist from France
Roxana Damaschin Tecu, a social entrepreneur from Romania
Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler, a lawyer from Germany
Faik Tunay, a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly
Dearbhail McDonald, a journalist from the Republic of Ireland
Dr Valerie Cummins, a research director from the Republic of Ireland
All descriptions and the full list of 2012 MNP are available on the Eisenhower website.
++UPDATE++
19 April 2012
William Crawley is blogging about his experiences on the Fellowship, you’ll be able to follow his journey at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/
January 5, 2012 Leave a comment
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!
January 5, 2012 Leave a comment
I’m sure we’ll all remember with nostalgia the excitement when the list of all fellows for our programme went live, so we could get our first impression of the people with whom we would be spending those incredible months. The 2012 list has now been published and there are a number of Europeans among them:
You can find their details and those of all 2012 MNP Fellows on the Eisenhower website.
We wish them all the best for what will undoubtedly be an amazing experience, and hope that they will stay in touch with other European fellows on their return.
November 1, 2011 2 Comments
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.
October 26, 2011 Leave a comment
We send warmest Eisenhower Fellowship congratulations to Won Soon Park (MNP 99, Korea), newly elected mayor of Seoul, South Korea.
October 17, 2011 1 Comment
The Fellows and their guests celebrate EF Day 2011 at the Royal Flemish Theatre
The Belgium/EU alumni fellows celebrated EF day 2011 at the theatre. Jan Goossens (MNP 2009) and Director of the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) invited Fellows and their guests to attend the premiere of “A Louer”, a piece of contemporary dance theatre produced by his theatre in association with the Peeping Tom Company. After the show, the Fellows enjoyed a reception in the theatre building, where they heard from Valére Moutarlier (EU, MNP 06) and Robert Faucher, Deputy Head of Mission at the US Embassy, as well as a welcome from Jan Goossens. It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know each other, and was clearly appreciated by the Fellows – there were several requests to meet more often, with Micheline Jonckheere (MNP 96) offering a musical invitation for the Spring.
Opening speeches:
Welcome from Jan Goossens
For more photos of the event, see our Flickr photoset.
The following Fellows were present:
Philippe De Buck (Belgium, MNP 86)
Jan Goossens (Belgium, MNP 09)
Dirk Heremans (Belgium, MNP 80)
Micheline Jonckheere (Belgium, MNP 96)
Michel Tondeur (Belgium, MNP72)
Marc Van Der Stichele (Belgium, MNP 66)
Michael Voordeckers (Belgium, MNP 10)
Fabio Colasanti (EU, MNP 92)
Antonia Mochan (EU, MNP08)
Valere Moutarlier (EU, MNP06)
Herbert Ungerer (EU, MNP 84)
October 13, 2011 Leave a comment
As we approach the Eisenhower Day of Fellowship on 14 October, we have received the following message from the Chairman of the fellowship, General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
Since we instituted the Eisenhower Day of Fellowship in 2008, hundreds of Fellows around the world have gathered annually to renew their commitment to Dwight Eisenhower’s vision of a world where cooperation replaces confrontation and understanding replaces ignorance. The expression of their commitment takes many forms, ranging from a nationwide high school essay contest in Sri Lanka to a regional conference in Indonesia to the launch of the Eisenhower Alumni Association of Saudi Arabia.
I view these annual events as the first step of a strategy to provide our alumni with a varied menu of rewarding opportunities to work together in order to better the world around them. This year, Eisenhower Fellowships took the second step at the annual Alumni Advisory Council meeting in Istanbul. The Council decided to reconstitute itself as a self-directed Alumni Council that will deepen its institutional structure in order to undertake together consequential actions in a range of areas.
Let me extend my congratulations to all the Fellows who organize and participate in the worldwide events that mark this year’s Eisenhower Day of Fellowship. I strongly encourage all of you to make being an Eisenhower Fellow a lifelong identity.
Sincerely,
General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
Here at the EF Europe website, we’d love to hear about what you are doing to mark it. It’s also the birthday of one of our EF Europe Alumni, Irina Anghel (MNP 08, Romania) so we wish her a happy EF birthday!
