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CID Executive Committee (2009-2013)
Mr. Prof. Dr. Alkis Raftis (Greece) President Ms. Prof. Dr. Gillian Bottomley (Australia) Vice-President Ms. Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Hanley (U.S.A.) Vice-President Mr. Daniel Lommel (Belgium) Vice-President Mr. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Victorovich Vasiliev (Russia) Vice-President Ms. Geneviève Dahan-Seltzer (France) General Secretary Ms. Adamantia Angeli (Greece) Deputy General Secretary Mr. Dr. Constantin Kontogiannis (France) Deputy General Secretary Ms. Hind El Khoury (Lebanon) Treasurer Maître Georgia Kouvela-Piquet (France) Legal Counsellor Countess Françoise Duboc de Caulaincourt (France) Dame Marina Keet de Grut (U.K.) Ms. Prof. Dr. Karen Lynn Smith (U.S.A.) Ms. Prof. Dr. Maria-Louisa Agati (Italy) Ms. Prof. Dr. Nadezda Mosusova (Serbia) Ms. Dr. Adelina Brenes Kikut (Costa Rica) Ms. Dr. Kate Goodwin (New Zealand) Ms. Dr. Lucia Carro Marina de Nayyar (Pakistan) Ms. Dr. Toshiko Sato (Japan) Ms. Lale Babacan (Turkey) Ms. Patricia Clancy-Kuhlmann (South Africa) Ms. Kadidia Doumbia (Côte d'Ivoire) Ms. Hazel Franco (Trinidad and Tobago) Ms. Rea Madella-Ioannidou (Cyprus) Ms. Risima Risimkin (FYR of Macedonia) Financial Committee Ms. Anastasia Anastasopoulou (Greece) Ms. Anna Cirigliano (Italy) Ms. Catherine Godon (France) Ms. Judith Chestnut (Australia) Ms. Mary Damigos (U.S.A.) CID Honorary Members Princess Christina of Sweden Princess Norodom Buphha Devi of Cambodia Ms. Alicia Alonso (Cuba) Ms. Susana Frugone de Basualdo (Uruguay) Ms. Mariemma Guillermina Martinez Cabrejas (Spain) + Former Presidents Mr. Kurt Joos (Germany) + Mr. Prof. Bengt Haeger (Sweden) Mr. Milorad Miskovitch (Serbia) Mr. Mario Bois (France) CID staff Executives Ms. Adamantia Angeli, economist, Executive Director Ms. Lambrini Raikou, anthropologist, Executive Secretary Area Supervisors Mr. Haris Bakopoulos, dance teacher and researcher Ms. Eleni Sfaktou, pianist & musicologist Management Assistants Mr. Yan Zhou, economics graduate Ms. Evmorfili Takunaki, marketing graduate Mr. Aleksejs Telepna, business and law graduate
IT Engineers Mr. Stamatis Theocharidis, Systems Analyst Mr. Stergios Theocharidis, Communications Engineer The International Dance Council CID UNESCO, Paris, France www.unesco.org/ngo/cid
All CID officers are elected every four years at the General Assembly, where CID Members vote (also by proxy, to ensure that those who do not have the means to travel are not deprived of their right to vote). The current Executive Committee was elected on 19 July 2009 in Malaga, Spain. Total number of CID members at that date was 5499 in 146 countries. 1561 members were considered active. Out of them, 107 members from 38 countries were present and 62 members from 25 countries were represented. The current CID President Mr. Alkis Raftis was born in Athens in 1942. He holds degrees from 4 universities and speaks 6 languages. He has taught at 4 universities and has lectured in another 15.
He has authored 22 books on dance, culture and management. He has edited 28 books, 8 CDs,9 CD-ROMs and a bi-monthly review, as well as the Dance
Pandect portal. Prof. Raftis has held top posts in industrial, banking and cultural organizations; since 1987 he is president of the national Dora Stratou Dance Theater in Athens. He works mostly in Athens, regularly in Paris, and is often attending meetings of members in other countries. When in Paris, you can visit the CID Headquarters, where liaison matters with UNESCO are handled. You can meet there: Ms. Geneviève Dahan-Selzer General Secretary Countess Françoise Duboc de Caulaincourt Executive Committee Member Mr. Mathieu Gemon Management Trainee The current CID President's Office is in a prestigious 5-storey mansion in Plaka, the old town of Athens, under the Acropolis (picture below). Contacts with members are maintained from this office.
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