AEPL

Board of Directors

Elected members of the AEPL Board of Directors

Claude WACHTELAER

Chairman

Working Group Leader: Europe of rights

Contact details

  • Email : cwachtelaer@gmail.com

Additional information:

  • Teacher and teacher trainer
  • Primary school teacher
  • Psychologist (work and organisations)
  • Honorary Inspector-Director of Municipal Education in Brussels
  • Director of the Institut supérieur de Pédagogie in Brussels
  • Former director and general secretary of the Centre d'Action laïque
  • Former Secretary General of the European Humanist Federation
  • Former president of the dialogue initiative 'A Soul for Europe, Ethics and Spirituality'.
  • Vice-President of the association La Pensée et les Hommes

Guy T'HOOFT

Past Chairman

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  • Former international civil servant (senior executive)
  • Former Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Françoise HELY

Vice-Chairman

Secretary

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  • Former sales executive in the steel industry, specialist in international trade
  • Graduate of the University of Brest, France

Colette PEDANOU

Treasurer

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  • Former executive accountant

Marie-Josée DAMBLY

Director

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  • Former teacher in Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Graduate in Germanic languages and business computing

Joël DE DECKER

Director

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  • Former Public Affairs manager at IBM Europe
  • Former teacher of government relations at the Egon Hogeschool in Gent, Belgium

Yvan DHEUR

Director

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  • Diploma Master International Conflict and Security
  • Graduate Certificate in Security and Defence Studies (ERM-IRSD)

Luc HEIMENDINGER

Director

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  • Training in music, science, management and amicable conflict resolution
  • Mediator, coach, supervisor and trainer in Geneva

Tavana LIVARDJANI

Director

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  • Institutional Relations Officer
  • Former ministerial and parliamentary adviser

Eric PARADIS

Director

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  • Education: business school (ESSEC), economics, mathematics and statistics (Paris)
  • Project manager at the French Ministry of Industry
  • European Commission (1983 -2015): Administrator, Member of the Cabinet of Danish Vice-President Henning Christophersen, Assistant to the Director-General for Budgets, Head of Unit, Director of Resources and Director of the Central Financial Service

Claude RIVIERE

Director

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  • Diplôme d'Études Approfondies en Sciences Humaines (Advanced Studies Diploma in Human Sciences), University of Strasbourg
  • Training as a Social Engineer
  • Retired
  • Deputy Director of Revue Internationale
  • Chargé de Mission at the Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
  • Regional Director of National Association - National Head of European Affairs
  • Director European Alcohol Policy Alliance/European Public Health Alliance
  • Member of Committees of Experts at the European Commission and Parliament
  • Resides in Lille, France
  • Leisure: hiking in the high mountains

Julien VAN GEERTSOM

Director

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  • Master's degree in psychology and education at KU Leuven

Olivier BRISSAUD

Director

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  • Olivier Brissaud born in Neuilly/s/Seine (F) 7.2.1957
  • Bac European School Varese (It)
  • DEA in European and Economic Law University of Nice (F)
  • Executive at BBL (now ING) in Brussels (B)
  • Head of the Coordination Centre at Volkwagen AG (B)
  • Director of various social economy organisations
  • Action et Solidarité 3-GOB Brussels
  • Lives in Brussels (B)
  • Hobbies: choral singing, tennis, design, social and community entrepreneurship
  • See also www.brissaud.info

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