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.NameAntennaPeriod in office
1Franck Biancheri
ParisApr 1985 - Apr 1988
2Vieri Bracco
MilanoApr 1988 - Nov 1988
3Frédéric Pélard
ToulouseNov 1988 - Nov 1989
4Adolfo Dominguez
MadridNov 1989 - May 1990
5Achim Boers
DelftMay 1990 - Nov 1990
6Georgina von der Gablentz
BerlinNov 1990 - Apr 1992
7Jeroen Hoogerwerf
AmsterdamApr 1992 - Apr 1993
8Pavel Cernoch (Miladinovic)
PrahaApr 1993 - Nov 1993
9Zsuzsa Kigyós
BudapestNov 1993 - Apr 1994
10Dorian Selz


GeneveApr 1994 - Nov 1994
11Christina Wejshammer (Thorsson)
LundNov 1994 - Apr 1995
12Egens van Iterson Scholten
EnschedeApr 1995 - Nov 1995
13Christoph Strohm
KölnNov 1995 - Apr 1996
14Jordi Capdevila
BarcelonaApr 1996 - Nov 1996
15Gerhard Kress
Mainz/WiesbadenNov 1996 - Apr 1997
16Peter Ginser
KarlsruheApr 1997 - Nov 1997
17Sergio Caredda
GoriziaNov 1997 - Apr 1998
18Hélène De Rengerve (Berard)


Aix-en-ProvenceApr 1998 - Oct 1998
19Stefan Seidel
AugsburgOct 1998 - Apr 1999
20László Fésüs
SzegedApr 1999 - Nov 1999
21Faní Zarifopoúlou
AthinaNov 1999 - May 2000
22Oana Mailatescu Matei
Cluj-NapocaMay 2000 - Nov 2000
23Karina Häuslmeier
PassauNov 2000 - Nov 2001
24Pedro Panizo



ValladolidNov 2001 - May 2002
25Tomek Helbin


WarszawaMay 2002 - Nov 2002
26Mark de Beer
EnschedeNov 2002 - May 2003
27Diana Filip
Cluj-NapocaMay 2003 - Oct 2003
28Adrian Pintilie
BucurestiOct 2003 - Apr 2004
29Nicola Rega
TorinoApr 2004 - Nov 2004
30Silvia Baita

CagliariNov 2004 - May 2005
31Burcu Becermen
AnkaraMay 2005 - Nov 2005
32Leon Bakraceski
SkopjeNov 2005 - May 2006
33Alistair De Gaetano
VallettaMay 2006 - Nov 2006
34Theijs van Welij
UtrechtNov 2006 - Nov 2007
35Laure Onidi
ToulouseNov 2007 - Aug 2008
36
Dragan Stojanovski



NišSeptember 2008 - August 2009
37Agata Patecka



PoznańSeptember 2009 - August 2010
38Manos Valasis
PeiraiasSeptember 2010 – August 2011
39Alfredo Sellitti
SalernoSeptember 2011 – May 2012
40Marko Grdošić


ZagrebMay 2012 – August 2012
41Luis Alvarado Martinez
Las PalmasSeptember 2012 – July 2014
42Paul Smits
EnschedeAugust 2014 – July 2015
43Aleksandra "Ola" Kluczka
43 Ola Kluczka
KrakówAugust 2015 – July 2016
44Réka Salamon




Debrecen & AachenAugust 2016 – July 2017
45Loes Rutten
UtrechtAugust 2017 - July 2018
46Spyros Papadatos

IoanninaAugust 2018 - April 2019
47Evrim Emiroğlu

EskişehirApril 2019 - July 2019
48Daniël Amesz

LeidenAugust 2019 - July 2020
49Diederik de Wit



EindhovenAugust 2020 - July 2021