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BOARD MEMBERS
(Last Update: 14.01.2011)
Secretary General |
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Mr. Rudolf JENNY Moosweg 9 CH-3112 ALLMENDINGEN SWITZERLAND Tel. +41 (0)31 951 60 62 Mobile: +41 (0)79 421 64 77 Fax: +41 31 332 72 75 E-mail: RJOrchid@gmx.ch |
| Biography of Rudolf Jenny Rudolf Jenny is chemist by training and was active in environmental and ozone-technology until his retirement in 2008. He has been working with orchids for more than 40 years, had a large collection of tropical orchid plants until 1995. Over many years, he has travelled in Central and South America in connection with his studies in pollination ecology and taxonomy. He has published some 450 articles in many of the world's leading orchid journals and published monographs of the genera Gongora, Stanhopea, Paphinia and Sievekingia. He is regular lecturer at conferences around the world and owner of one of the most complete orchid libraries in private hands. He maintains BibliOrchidea, the world's largest and free accessible database for orchid literature with more than 165'000 entries, covering about 90 % f the existing literature He is research associate at the Jany Renz Herbarium, University of Basel, Switzerland and honorary member and secretary general of the European Orchid Council. In addition to orchids cave-climbing has been a hobby for many years. |
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President of the European Orchid Congress |
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Ildikó PÁLMAI Magyar Orchidea Társaság Pöltenberg u.147 H-1154 BUDAPEST HUNGARY Tel. +36 30 51 57 941 E-mail: palmaiildiko@t-online.hu |
| Biography of Ildikó Pálmai My name is Ildikó Pálmai. I was born in Budapest, Hungary,in 1965. I am married, and have a 3-year old son.I was educated as a Hungarian literature – history teacher.I have been a member of Hungarian Orchid Society since2004., and I was appointed onto the Board of the society in2005.I regained my appointment to continue my Board duties in 2010.My responsibilities are: PR activities of exhibitions,taking care of the good reputation of the society,maintenance of the website, watching the relevant tenders,and keeping contact with the societies in other countries.This year, in November, I was appointed as the President ofEuropean Orchid Congress. Apart from my Orchid Society activities – in the civilsphere I work for a psychiatric foundation, calledAwakenings Foundation as a Manager of General Duties. I speak fluent English and German, and un poco Italiano. At our home we have a green house, and have a nicecollection of orchids, cacti, and succulents. We growmainly cold-house plants as this way we can keep the orchidstogether with the cacti. www.horvath-palmai.fw.hu |
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Treasurer |
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Mrs. Inger BORG Petters väg 3 SE-245 63 HJÄRUP SWEDEN Tel. +46 705 94 13 97 E-mail: inger.borg@android.se |
| Biography of Inger Borg Inger BORG, educated Batchelor of Arts, mainly economy, at the University of Lund. She is a member of the Swedish Orchid Society and first appeared as an international judge at the WOC in Rio de Janeiro in 1996. Since then fascinated by the Laelias and Cattleyas. Partly involved in the EOC in Copenhagen 2000 and thereafter a member of the EOC Board. Other passions beside orchids are Rhododendrons and playing golf. |
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Prof. Dr. Charlotte DUPONT 25, avenue de l’Europe F-92310 SEVRES FRANCE Tel. +33 (0)1 4626 7982 Mobile: +33 (0)6 1517 4273 E-mail: charlotte.dupont6@wanadoo.fr |
| Biography of Charlotte Dupont Charlotte DUPONT, retired in 2003 from the University, was Professor of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Paris. With her husband, she was among those who founded the SFO (Société française d'Orchidophilie) in 1969 and she has always been a member of this Society since then. She is currently member of the Board of the SFO, devoted to external relationship. She is also member of the newly created orchid section of the SNHF (Société nationale d'Horticulture de France). |
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Dr. Johan HERMANS 17 Rosewood Drive ENFIELD GB-MIDDLESEX EN2 9BT ENGLAND Tel: +44-2078 1456 47 Fax: +44-2076 0010 58 Email: orchids1@btinternet.com |
| Biography of Johan Hermans Johan Hermans is Chairman of the RHS Orchid Committee and the Advisory Committee on Orchid Hybrid Registration. He is a World Orchid Conference Trustee and an Honorary Research Associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. He has a special interest in the Orchids of Madagascar. |
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Mr. Carsten HAMMER Im Bornstück 5 D-65529 WALDEMS GERMANY Tel. +49 (0)6087 919934 E-Mail: carsten.hammer@yahoo.de |
| Biography of Carsten Hammer Carsten Hammer is group leader of the D.O.G.-Group Hessen-Nassau, Administrator of www.orchidee.de and local and international judge of the D.O.G. He has a special interest in the Pleurothallids, Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae and Dendrochilum and he likes to travel to different places to see how the orchids grow in the wild. |
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Co-opted Members |
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Mrs. Vinciane DUMONT 37, chemin Jean-Achard CH-1231 CONCHES SWITZERLAND Tel. +41-(0)22 346 93 45 Fax +41-(0)22 789 28 91 E-mail:vinciane@demessey.com |
| Biography of Vinciane Dumont As President of the Swiss Orchid Society, groupe de Romandie and Secretary General of the EOC, both for 20 years, as Deputy Chair of the Orchid Specialist Group at the IUCN and Member of the Expert Committee for Endangered Species appointed by the Swiss Federal Council for 12 years, Vinciane Dumont has been very much involved in the CITES revisions on orchid trade in Kyoto and Fort Lauderdale, where it has been approved to exempt orchid flask from CITES regulation. She has been co-editor of the Orchid Action Plan for the IUCN in 1996. In 2002, she resigned of all those responsibilities to dedicate herself in the organization of the World Orchid Conference in Dijon in 2005. |
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Auditor |
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Mr. Hans CHRISTIANSEN Hillerødvejen 25 DK-3480 FREDENSBORG Denmark Tel. +45-48 48 04 71 Fax +45-48 47 54 64 E-mail: orchidegartneriet@christiansen.mail.dk |
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