• Dr. William Crawley of Northern Ireland
• Pascal Dupeyrat of France
• Roxana Damaschin Tecu of Romania
• Dr. Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler of Germany
• Faik Tunay of Turkey
• Dr. Valerie Cummins and Dearbhail McDonald of Ireland

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.

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.

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)

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!