Elected Officers
At the 2022 AEJ General Assembly in Greece the following officers were elected for a 2 years term:
President
Isaia Tsaousidou,Greece
General Secretary
Edward Steen, Austria
Vice-President
Javier F. Arribas, Spain
Vice-President
Tibor Macak, Slovakia
Vice-President
Guiseppe Jacobini, Italy
Treasurer
Pat Humphreys, UK
Representative for Brussels
Gian Paolo Arcado, France
Representative for Media Freedom and Fake News
Kyriakos Pieridis, Cyprus
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Athanase Papandropoulos Greece, Diego Carcedo Spain, Eileen Dunne Ireland and Otmar Lahodynsky Austria are Honorary Presidents of the AEJ.
Carmelo Occhino Italy and Dogan Tilic Turkey are Honorary Vice-Presidents.
Miguel Angel Aguilar Spain, Juraj Alner Slovakia, Peter Kramer Belgium are Honorary Secretary Generals.
AFTER MODIFIED STATUTES (decision of AEJ Int. General Assembly of 23 November 2013, in Brussels) CAME IN FORCE ON 12 DECEMBER 2013, ABOVE MENTIONED ELECTED OFFICERS AND SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES MAKE UP AEJ INT. BOARD
AEJ Int. Audit Committee
Javier Martin-Dominguez, Spain
Hasan Kahvecioglu, Cyprus
Lampros Rodis, Greece
Tim Ryan, Ireland
David Worsfold, UK
AEJ Int. Arbitration Committee
Brindusa Armanca, Romania
Eileen Dunne, Ireland
Pedro Gonzalez Martinez, Spain
Panagiotis Sfaelos, Greece
Short presentations of the board members:
Isaia Tsaousidou, Greece
President of the International AEJ since February 2021
Greek-based freelance journalist; Professor in private school of journalism. Editor-in-chief of Eurozoi.gr, HephaestusWien.com
Vice President of the International AEJ October 2010- February 2021. Treasurer of the International AEJ 2004-2010. President of the Greek section
Edward Steen, Austria
Secretary General since February 2021
Gen-Sec was a columnist at the FT, then foreign feature writer at the London Sunday Telegraph, covering inter alia Polish Solidarnosc, French and German elections etc, the Middle East and the Ugandan civil war. He helped recruit and establish the London Independent, and was its founding editor for Central and Eastern Europe. Later a political adviser at the European Parliament, he subsequently joined the then Economist-owned European Voice in Brussels. Educated in Africa, France, and at Cambridge University, where he read English, he lives in Vienna and has dual Irish and Austrian citizenship.
Javier Fernandez Arribas, Spain Vice President
Vice President of the International AEJ since October 2010; member of executive committee of the Spanish AEJ since 2004; was news and program editor of Punto Radio (Vocento) since 2004 and is now freelance political analyst for TVE, CNN+ and Telemadrid.
Tibor Macak, Slovakia Vice President
AEJ’s Secretary General 2012- February 2021. He is Secretary General of AEJ Slovak section since 2008. He works as editor and commentator by public Slovak radio and television RTVS, foreign news desk. Former was correspondent of public Slovak news Agency TASR in Germany and wrote also articles about foreign politics for some slovak print media.
Guiseppe Jacobini, Italy Vice President
Pat Humphreys, UK Treasurer
Kyriakos Pieridis, Cyprus Representative for Media Freedom
Gian Paolo Arcado, France Representative for Brussels