ALDE Delegation

Hon. Graham Watson, MEP
ALDE Head of Mission
United Kingdom

Member of the European Parliament Delegations for Relations with the Korean Peninsula and Relations with the People's Republic of China

Hon. Jules Maaten, MEP
Netherlands
Member of the ALDE Bureau   

Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and substitute Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Member of the European Parliament Delegations for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Hon. Eugenijus Gentivilas, MEP
Lithuania
Member of the ALDE Bureau 

Member of the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development and European Parliament Delegation for relations with Belarus and Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia

Hon. Ignasi Guardans, MEP
Spain
Convergència Democràtica Catalunya

Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade and Member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations for the countries in South-East Europe.

Hon. Anders Samuelsen, MEP
Denmark
Member of the ALDE Bureau  

Member of the European Parliament Committee on Budgets and European Parliament Delegation for relations with Iran Substitute Member on the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China

Hon. Fiona Hall
United Kingdom

Member of the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and substitute Member on the Committee on Development Member of the European Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Hon. Lydie Polfer
Luxembourg
Member of the ALDE Bureau 

Member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and European Parliament Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Substitute Member Committee on International Trade and Delegations for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) and the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen

Mr. Niccolò Rinaldi
Deputy Secretary General ALDE Group

ALDE Staff Responsible for European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Committee, the European Parliament Delegation for Central Asia, ALDE Delegations, External Meetings and Networking.

Ms. Therese Murdock
ALDE Secretariat


CALD Delegation 

Hon. Henedina Razon-Abad, MP
CALD Head of Mission
Philippines

Henedina Razon-Abad is the Congressional Representative of the lone district of Batanes in the Philippines. She has been actively involved in Metro Manila public affairs for many years. She is the Vice President for Sectors of the Liberal Party and Chair of the CALD Women’s Caucus.  Abad was the former dean of Ateneo de Manila University’s School of Government and remains a member of the faculty. She was a teaching assistant at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where she received her Master’s in Public Administration.

Hon. Saumura Tioulong, MP
Cambodia

Madam Tioulong obtained her MBA as well as her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Paris. She later started her successful business career in Paris. From 1993 to 1995, she became the Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. Madam Tioulong has been supporting the democratic development in Cambodia since she was in Paris.   She was an elected parliamentarian from Phnom Penh since 1998. 

Hon.  Rhina Bhar, MP
Malaysia

Senator Rhina Bhar obtained her Diploma in International Relations at the University College London and a Barrister-at-Law degree at Gray’s Inn at the Royal Court of Justice in London, England.   She is also a strong supporter of the Women's Centre for Change in Penang, a non-profit organization set up in 1985 to help women and children facing crisis, irrespective of race, religion or social background.

Amb. Kasit Piromya
Thailand

Mr. Kasit Piromya, was the former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United States of America from 2004 to 2005.   He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in the School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University in 1968 and a Diploma in International Relations at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, Netherlands in 1971. His previous posting as Thai Ambassador includes the following countries: Russian Federation (formerly Soviet Union), People’s Republic of Mongolia, Republic of Papua New Guinea, Federation Republic of Germany, and Japan.

Hon. Willa Chandra Supriandi, MP
PDIP, Indonesia

Madame Willa Chandra Supriandi is representing Bandung Regency, West Java.  She is a member of Parliament Commission VIII dealing with religion, people’s welfare and women empowerment.  She is also a member of the Central Board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle or PDIP for the Legal and Law Section of the Central Research and Development.  Madame Willa Chandra Supriandi, a professor by nature, teaches at the Parahyangan Catholic University.

Hon. Cecep Syarifuddin, MP
PKB, Indonesia

Professor Cecep Syarifuddin is a Member of Parliament representing the Nation Awakening Party or PKB.  He is also the Dean of Faculty of Islamic Education at the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) in Bandung Indonesia.  He is also a member of the National Research Board (Dewan Riset National) and the People Consultancy Assembly.

Hon. Badyiyah Fayumi, MP
PKB, Indonesia

Mrs. Badyiyah Fayumi, is a Member of Parliament representing the Nation Awakening Party or PKB.  She is also a member of the Parliamentary Commission VII on religion, people’s welfare and women.  She is currently the Vice-Chair II of the PKB for the women’s movement, the Vice Chair of the party’s advisory board and its secretary.

Mr. Hubertus von Welck
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung

Mr. Von Welck is the Regional Director for East and Southeast Asia of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation based in Bangkok, Thailand. From 1998 to 2005 he was the FNF Regional Director for South Asia based in Delhi, India. He has worked in the FNF head office in Germany as Head of the Human Resources, Assistant to the Deputy Chairman and Head of the International Affairs Programmes. He was FNF Project Director for Zimbabwe and South Africa and Program Officer of the Africa Project. He received his Master in Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Mr. John Joseph S. Coronel
CALD Secretariat

Mr. Coronel is the Executive Director of the Council of Asian Liberals & Democrats, a position he held since CALD opened its permanent secretariat in Manila in 2000.  Mr. Coronel previously served as Vice President of the Philippine liberal think tank, the National Institute for Policy Studies; consultant of Amnesty International; and consultant of Philippine Senate Majority Leader Senator Francis P.N. Pangilinan. He has been involved in various electoral campaigns in the local and national levels. He studied at the University of the Philippines and the University of Hawaii where he was a scholar of the East West Center.

Mr. Carlo Religioso
CALD Secretariat

Mr. Religioso is the newest CALD Program Officer.  Prior to his CALD posting, he was with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Philippine Office as Program Assistant of the administration section.  He has participated in different trainings and conferences held in Lithuania, United Kingdom, France, Cyprus and the Czech Republic.  Mr. Religioso finished his Bachelor of Arts major in Consular and Diplomatic Affairs at the La Salle University, College of St. Benilde in 1999.