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The members of the Executive Committee were
chosen by the IPS Board of Directors from among its members,
maintaining regional and cultural balance. The objective of
this body is to provide ongoing support to the agency's General
Management in executing its mission and achieving its goals.
Fifi Benaboud (Chair) |
Fifi Benaboud - Algerian. Divorced, 3 children. PhD
in Political Science. Coordinator of Transmediterranean
Program (" Transmed"), North-South Centre
of the Council of Europe. Senior Advisor of Scientific
Boards for several global organisations. Committed in
International Cooperation for 30 years.
In charge of cooperation and partnership between the
Council of Europe and the Mediterranean region; based
on political dialogue, intercultural dialogue, human
rights promotion, education and communication, mainly
with Maghreb and Mashrek countries.
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Mario Lubetkin |
Mario Lubetkin, Italian-Uruguayan journalist, IPS Director
General.
He served as correspondent for several Italian and
Latin American print media, and as communications adviser
for several U.N. agencies and regional integration organisations
such as ALADI (Latin American Integration Association),
CEFIR (Training Centre for Regional Integration), ARPEL
(Latin American Oil Companies Association) and also
for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
and the United Nations Development Programme (PNUD).
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Giovanni Spinelli |
Giovanni Spinelli is an Italian
journalist, born in 1942. In the 1960s he was the national
representative of Italian NGOs and worked as a political
reporter.
From 1979 to 1985 he served as Mayor of
the Municipality of Historic Central Rome, and in 1980,
UNFPA commissioned him to organise the First World Conference
of Mayors in Rome. He also worked as a consultant for
UNESCO on the creation of a Francophone African news
agency.
Between 1972 and 1979, he held the
positions of Italy correspondent, Chief Editor and Secretary
General of the IPS news agency. From 1986 to 1996 he
again joined IPS and served as Secretary General. He
is currently a Board member of the IPS International
Association, responsible for legal and corporate affairs.
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Walther Lichem |
Walther Lichem, Head of the Department for International
Organisations in the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
with studies in law (Univ. of Graz, Austria) and political
science (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Institute
for Advanced Studies, Vienna) started his professional
career in 1966 at the United Nations Secretariat in
New York in the field of international water resources
with development cooperation missions to Ethiopia (1971),
Argentina (1971-74) and to the Senegal River Development
Organisation (1980). He was also Rapporteur on international
river basins at the International Conference on Water
Law (Caracas, 1976) and at the IVth World Water Conference
(Buenos Aires, 1982).
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