Your congress team
Congress Planning Office
George Simons
Julia Fernández
Terry Taucer-Samson
Fatima Haddad
Sara Duarte
Christine Longé
Mail Address:
Résidence L'Argentière, Bât-A,
637 Boulevard de la Tavernière,
06210 Mandelieu la Napoule, France.
Tel: +33 9 77 92 33 70
Fax: +33 4 56 80 91 65
We can respond in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Program Development & Plenary presentations are being coordinated by this committee with assistance from the Presentations Committee and the following members.
Jonathan Levy (Humanitarian issues)
Pari Namazie (Women in Islam)
Pascale Sztum (Cultural work in Africa)
Marianne van Eldik Thieme (Film Festival)
Anne-Claire Frank (Young SIETAR)
Public Relations
Sabine Amend, SIETAR Europa member, founded Kultur & Management in 1998. An intercutural trainer and consultant working from the USA and Germany, she will assist you with what you need to present, market and enroll others in the congress process.
Adrienne Piersol is serving as an intern with Sabine Amend and will be available to provide you with resources from that office.
Marketing
Maria Jicheva, past president of SIETAR Europa and member of its governing board. She is an international consultant and trainer with Coghill-Beery in London where she lives with her family.
USA marketing Team
Rita Wuebbeler, M.A. owner of Interglobe Cross-Cultural Business Services, Inc., an Atlanta-based cross-cultural training and consulting firm. A dual US-German national, Rita specializes in global business skills training, relocation training and teambuilding programs for global virtual teams serving clients in the for-profit and non-profit sectors in the U.S. and Europe.
Candice Hughes
International Networking Liason
Melissa Lamson, co-founder and partner in Diversity Works, supplier of diversity, intercultural and anti-discrimination consulting and training will be promoting participation and sponsorship in Granada 2008 as an online networking liaison and congress sponsor.
Elena Groznaya is a researcher with Diversity Works.
Finance Committee
Elio Vera, representes the direct members of SIETAR Europa on its governing board, where he also chairs the external communications committee.One of the organizers of SIETAR Italia, he is Director of the Centro Esperienze e Studi di Management. He lives in Milan.
Monica Mumford
Scholarship Committee
Klara Falk-Bano
Louis Bregger
Presentation Committee
Peggy Pusch
Esther Louie
Pre- and Post-Congress Certification Programs
Robert P.K. Johnson, SIETAR UK president, is a London-based intercultural consultant and trainer who worked extensively on the programming of the SIETAR Europa Congress in Sofia in 2007.
Leah Davcheva is an intercultural trainer and consultant in Sofia Bulgaria where she heads AHA MOMENTS. Together with Rob Johnson she managed the SIETAR Europa congress in Sofia in 2007.
Website Consultant
Stephan Winiker, Young SIETAR webmaster, Advisor Projects, intetercultural Learning & IT at AFS Switzerland, created this internet presence and advises and supports the coordinating team in all issues related to webpublishing and online collaboration.
Volunteer Training Team
Alex Scheitza
Mirka Lachka
Jana Holla
Logistics Research Team
Belén Pérez
Edith Finkbeiner
Awards Committee
Kate Berardo
Conference Photographer
Vanessa Landry-Claverie, member of SIETAR Europa, living in Montreal, who recorded the first SIETAR India Congress and last year's SIETAR Europa Congress in Sofia, will document the Granada events.
Translation/Interpretation Team
Anna Zelno
A native of Barcelons, Mar Jimenez works as a chemist in a biotech in the South East of England, Trained as a translator over the last four years she has actively volunteered to render NGOs documents and websites from English into Spanish.
Gemma Ferrández
Ann Rupp
Ecological Consultant
Florence Bourdon
Info Volunteers
To make it easier to decide on and plan for your attendance at Granada 2008, seasoned SIETAR members, some from local SIETARs and others from areas were no SIETAR yet exists, have volunteered to serve as informal, nearby sources of information and networking. Should you wish to volunteer to do this as well, please let us know.







































