Can you spontaneously tell, how many presidents AEGEE-Europe had so far? 25? 30? 40? 50? The right answer: 49. It started with AEGEE’s founder Franck Biancheri in 1985. Biancheri also had the longest term ever with three years.
Current President of AEGEE-Europe is Diederik de Wit from AEGEE-Eindhoven. He was elected at the spring Agora in June 2020. Diederik is also the first original member of AEGEE-Eindhoven ecer to join the Comité Directeur (CD), AEGEE’s board of directors.
Most presidents only held the office for six months. This was a result of several facts. Different from now, the CD cycle was not from August to July, but from Agora to Agora. So the elected CD members were in power right after the day they were elected. Since the elections were held twice per year, many CD members stayed for just half a year. The newly elected presidents were always normal CD members in the previous board. So they usually were in the CD for half a year or a year already. Half a year as president was then the maximum they could offer to AEGEE. In addition, up until 2004, CD members did not get money for living expenses in Brussels, where the CD lived since 1996. So, being president was not also time-consuming and stressful, but also expensive.
This list does not include acting presidents who took over for a few days without being elected. Such a case was Marco Daniele, who was President of AEGEE-Europe for five days in April 2019.
By the way, nine presidents were from locals, which don’t exist anymore – among them all six presidents between autum 1996 and autumn 1999!
Here is the list of all Presidents of AEGEE-Europe – with photos of every one of them. Enjoy the list!
And if you are curious who was in every Comité Directeur, check out this page!
Nr. Name Antenna Period in office
1 Franck Biancheri
Paris Apr 1985 - Apr 1988
2 Vieri Bracco
Milano Apr 1988 - Nov 1988
3 Frédéric Pélard
Toulouse Nov 1988 - Nov 1989
4 Adolfo Dominguez
Madrid Nov 1989 - May 1990
5 Achim Boers
Delft May 1990 - Nov 1990
6 Georgina von der Gablentz
Berlin Nov 1990 - Apr 1992
7 Jeroen Hoogerwerf
Amsterdam Apr 1992 - Apr 1993
8 Pavel Cernoch (Miladinovic)
Praha Apr 1993 - Nov 1993
9 Zsuzsa Kigyós
Budapest Nov 1993 - Apr 1994
10 Dorian Selz
Geneve Apr 1994 - Nov 1994
11 Christina Wejshammer (Thorsson)
Lund Nov 1994 - Apr 1995
12 Egens van Iterson Scholten
Enschede Apr 1995 - Nov 1995
13 Christoph Strohm
Köln Nov 1995 - Apr 1996
14 Jordi Capdevila
Barcelona Apr 1996 - Nov 1996
15 Gerhard Kress
Mainz/Wiesbaden Nov 1996 - Apr 1997
16 Peter Ginser
Karlsruhe Apr 1997 - Nov 1997
17 Sergio Caredda
Gorizia Nov 1997 - Apr 1998
18 Hélène De Rengerve (Berard)
Aix-en-Provence Apr 1998 - Oct 1998
19 Stefan Seidel
Augsburg Oct 1998 - Apr 1999
20 László Fésüs
Szeged Apr 1999 - Nov 1999
21 Faní Zarifopoúlou
Athina Nov 1999 - May 2000
22 Oana Mailatescu Matei
Cluj-Napoca May 2000 - Nov 2000
23 Karina Häuslmeier
Passau Nov 2000 - Nov 2001
24 Pedro Panizo
Valladolid Nov 2001 - May 2002
25 Tomek Helbin
Warszawa May 2002 - Nov 2002
26 Mark de Beer
Enschede Nov 2002 - May 2003
27 Diana Filip
Cluj-Napoca May 2003 - Oct 2003
28 Adrian Pintilie
Bucuresti Oct 2003 - Apr 2004
29 Nicola Rega
Torino Apr 2004 - Nov 2004
30 Silvia Baita 
Cagliari Nov 2004 - May 2005
31 Burcu Becermen
Ankara May 2005 - Nov 2005
32 Leon Bakraceski
Skopje Nov 2005 - May 2006
33 Alistair De Gaetano
Valletta May 2006 - Nov 2006
34 Theijs van Welij
Utrecht Nov 2006 - Nov 2007
35 Laure Onidi
Toulouse Nov 2007 - Aug 2008
36
Dragan Stojanovski
Niš September 2008 - August 2009
37 Agata Patecka
Poznań September 2009 - August 2010
38 Manos Valasis
Peiraias September 2010 – August 2011
39 Alfredo Sellitti
Salerno September 2011 – May 2012
40 Marko Grdošić
Zagreb May 2012 – August 2012
41 Luis Alvarado Martinez
Las Palmas September 2012 – July 2014
42 Paul Smits
Enschede August 2014 – July 2015
43 Aleksandra "Ola" Kluczka
Kraków August 2015 – July 2016
44 Réka Salamon
Debrecen & Aachen August 2016 – July 2017
45 Loes Rutten
Utrecht August 2017 - July 2018
46 Spyros Papadatos
Ioannina August 2018 - April 2019
47 Evrim Emiroğlu
Eskişehir April 2019 - July 2019
48 Daniël Amesz
Leiden August 2019 - July 2020
49 Diederik de Wit
Eindhoven August 2020 - July 2021
