1. APRIL 2012 S E P . 2AIESEC ALUMNI INTERNATIONAL & AIESEC INTERNATIONAL
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AIESEC ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2012
Dear Alumni,
Dear fellow alumni, benefit alumni, student AIESEC, and
everything AIESECers believe in.
I’m excited to write to you
On a personal level, AAIM ’12 in
today, because of a couple
Hungary was transformational, rather We have some refinements to make, in
reasons.
like condensing our student AIESEC close consultation with AI, with national
experience into a few days of sparkling associations, and with alumni-at-large,
First and foremost, I would like
celebratory dinners, intense work but we’re shifting from analysis to
to share some thoughts on the
sessions, and dynamic interactions with action, from committees to capabilities,
success of the Alumni
AIESECers into the early morning and from debate to delivery. We can do
meeting in Hungary this past
hours. this. With your help, we will get it
February.
done.
On an organizational level, it was
It was a truly transformational
transformational because the “AIESEC We are all indebted to the outgoing EB
meeting, consolidating the past and starting up the
Alumni of the World Unite” Working members for their very significant
future, which I personally, along with my entire
Group received formal support for its contributions to the alumni reform effort.
team, believe has a great potential to become a
proposals to unleash AIESEC’s global
reality very soon.
alumni potential. Following months of We are especially grateful for the
work with alumni, with AAI and with AI, tireless efforts of outgoing AAI
On behalf of AIESEC International I would like to
during which alumni completed President Victor Loewenstein who has
congratulate the new Board of AAI and wish them
hundreds of surveys and visited the contributed so much to our movement
all the best for the up coming year. AIESEC
group’s blog more than 15,000 times, over so many years of dedicated
International is looking forward to closely
we engaged in a spirited 3-hour service, and who has promised to stay
collaborating with the Board and alumni in general.
discussion about our future. involved. Thank you, Victor.
On another note, at the same Congress we elected
The many participants included former On behalf of AAI’s new Executive
the new President of AIESEC International for the
PAIs, distinguished national and Board, thank you all for your support
term 2012-2013. I’m happy and honored to
international alumni leaders, founders and engagement. Please stay tuned,
introduce to you Florent Meiyi from Mainland (of)
of AAI, and Jean Choplin, a founder of and please stay
China as the new President of AIESEC
AIESEC. By the end of this discussion, in touch. We
International.
the participants gave their strong have a great
support for the proposals, and later that future ahead of
This month of February has been absolute
day, AAI’s General Assembly supported us.
successful for both the alumni network
with conviction a motion endorsing
t r a n s f o r m a t i o n a s w e l l a s f o r A I E S E C ’s
them and calling for their
transformation toward 2015 and we are looking
implementation. AIESECly
forward to having more events which can bring us
yours,
closer together to what we envision to be the new
As a result, AAI’s new Executive
organization.
Board is dedicated to putting these David Epstein
proposals into place, and on AAI’s 25th President AAI
On behalf of AIESEC International
anniversary, we are one step closer to
Tetiana Mykhailiuk
creating a truly global network that will
President AI
Become a member of AAI
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and cooperation with AIESEC, and broad internet-based access to events, programs and services driven by
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2. AIESEC ALUMNI INTERNATIONAL NEWS
From Feb. 16th to 19th an AAI Meeting and Congress took place in Hungary,
beginning in Budapest and ending in Tapolca. 150 alumni attended all or part of
the events, stemming from 34 countries. A great success for which the
Hungarian OC should be gratefully thanked! For all the details of the
programme, photos and the entirely report of the conference please click here
AIESEC Alumni Award
One of the highlights of the recently held
AAIM in Hungary was the Alumni Award,
which was launched for the first time and which acknowledged exceptional and successful
work performed by an AIESEC student entity towards its local or national alumni population.
The first winner of this Prize – sponsored by PwC – was the MC of AIESEC In Kenya whose
achievement was to have successfully rallied its alumni community in the organization,
implementation and finance of the recently held International Congress of AIESEC.
To achieve this challenging goal, students and alumni worked closely together so as to
host in Nairobi nearly one thousand students from almost one hundred countries. The event
will be long remembered, and Kenya can be proud to have shown the world how effective
and hospitable the country and its people are thanks to the multigenerational collaboration
between students and alumni espousing common objectives.
Through this Alumni Award AAI underlines the fact that while of different ages, cultures and backgrounds, we are all proud to be “one
and the same” and consistently supportive of AIESEC student initiatives.
The elected AAI Executive Board
During our AAI Congress in Tapolca, Hungary on Saturday, February
18th, AAI members elected a new Executive Board that includes (left to
right in the photo) Andrew Rowe, Bernd M. Thomas, David Epstein,
Lionel Simons, Hiro Kinashi and Sudeep Malhotra.
The EB subsequently named David Epstein as President and Bernd M.
Thomas as Vice President. Their initial areas of focus are as follows:
• Andrew Rowe (signature programs);
• Bernd M. Thomas (policy coordination, including preparations for
Moscow’12, and liaison with AIESEC SG, AI and legal counsel);
• David Epstein (oversight of joint effort with AI on next generation
website/networking, newsletter and social media; communications)
• Lionel Simons (sponsorships and finance);
• Hiro Kinashi (alumni and network database); and
• Sudeep Malhotra (membership).
Refining our mission statement and branding
Two of the “10 Steps” in the global alumni reform effort are core identity issues, namely, “Who are we?” (elevated branding that enhances our
emotional appeal) and “Why are we here?” (an aspirational mission statement).
Though the reform proposal was approved in Hungary, we agreed to seek more input from alumni and NAAs on the mission statement and
branding proposals in order to “tweak” them if need be. For more information, visit a separate blog that has been set up for this purpose here:
http://aiesecalumniidentity.wordpress.com/
First Thursdays global initiative To find out which cities are already participating and to get more
information, visit the First Thursdays Facebook page and click the
Imagine that no matter where on earth you may be, you can join events button. If there is no event in your city yet, we encourage you
fellow alumni AIESECers on the same day to network, to have fun, to organize one let us
and to have impact. know about it on the
Facebook page. We
Already today, alumni meet on regular basis in a number of cities will be happy to help
around the world, and we know that many more would participate if and promote it for
they knew when and where to go. During a brainstorming session at you.
AAIM 2012 in Hungary, we discussed an idea to elevate these
meetings into a global program, and “AIESEC Alumni First We would like to thank
Thursdays” appeared on the horizon. alumni leaders Peter
Mandl and Fabian
We are as many as one million strong, and our potential “to the Tschan who launched
power of AIESEC” is huge! Let us unleash this potential together the Facebook page for
on the First Thursday of every month in as many cities worldwide as this initiative and have
we can. We invite YOU to get engaged in this global effort in your built strong momentum.
city every First Thursday of each month!
Now let us build on their great work and move on it together!
Every AIESECer is welcome to join us… alumni, students, trainees
and our corporate partners.
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3. S E Q U ALUMNI NEWS
O I A C L U B
Prime Minister Monti’s support and our collective alumni potential
We are all immensely proud to learn that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has taken
time from his pressing governing duties to write a letter of support to Luca Torosani,
Secretary General of AIESEC Alumni Italia.
Prime Minister Monti wrote: “Never before, have the institutional objectives of AIESEC to
help the younger generation and promote professional success been so important for the
social and economic environment. Personally, I do remember with special affection and
joy and a bit of nostalgia my time as an AIESEC member as a university student. I wish
you all the very best for your future endeavours and activities of the Association.” Read
the full endorsement at the AAI Transformation project blog, here:
http://aiesecalumniunite.org/
ALUMNI EVENTS CALENDAR
MAY JUL
• May 5-6: AIESEC Alumni Italy alumni weekend • July 7th in Tokyo:
Salice Terme close to Milan, Italy www.aiesecalumni.it "50th Anniversary of AIESEC in Japan"
Contact person: Mr. Hiro Kinashi Email: hiro.kinashi@gmail.com
• May 19th & 20th in Shanghai, China:
"10th Anniversary of AIESEC in Mainland of China" • July 13th - 15th in Seoul, Korea:
Contact person: Ms. Elyn Hu Jiangchuan Email: "4th AIESEC Alumni Asia Pacific Conference - in commemoration
hujiangchuan.aiesec@gmail.com of 50th Anniversary of AIESEC in Korea and Asia Pacific"
Website URL: http://aapc2012.com/2012/
Contact person: Ms. Sooyeon Jin Email: soojin12@gmail.com
JUN
• July 28th in Singapore:
"40th Anniversary of AIESEC in Singapore"
• June 15th in Hong Kong: Website: click here
"45th Anniversary Dinner of AIESEC in Hong Kong"
Contact person: Gavin Ng Email: gavinng@pacific.net.ph
www.aaahk.com
Contact person: Mr. Ivan Chiu Email: ivanchiu60@gmail.com
AUG
• June 28-30 in Berlin: 60th Anniversary of AIESEC in Germany
www.aiesec-alumni.de August 21-28 in Moscow, Russia: AIESEC Alumni International
contact person: Susanne.pfeuffer@aiesec-alumni.de Meeting: www.ic2012.ru
AIESEC ALUMNI International Meeting 2012 Russia
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Following the very successful AAIM in Hungary this past February, AAI is calling for a second Meeting in
August to coincide with the AIESEC’s International Congress (IC). The venue is to be in the legendary city of
Moscow and the dates are as follows:
Pre-AAIM Moscow Study Tour from Tuesday 21 to Wednesday 22
AAIMeeting from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26
Post-AAIM St. Petersburg Study Tour from Monday 27 to Tuesday 28
For more details of Agenda, Programme, Pricing and Registration please visit: http://ic2012.ru/aaim
More information in the next AAI newsletters.
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