members
board of directors
Katja Riemann
president
Festival of Friends Office Germany
Susy Cremers
Managing director
Festival of Friends Office Ireland
Susy Cremers born in Maine in 1961, now living in Ireland for the
last 21 years,
mother of three daughters, was trained as a fine
artist and has a masters in painting from the San Francisco Art
Institute. She has a diploma from the Annwn Institute for completing
a two year energy healing course as well as 15 years of self
development training. She has been involved with a wide variety of
community projects and has orgainised and created community events
over the last 20 years. She is a dancer and performer with Akasha
tribal belly dance troupe for 6 years. She teaches dance and drama
to children and runs a Kids camp every summer. A trustee of An
Sanctoir holistic centre, the secretary of Two Rivers steiner based
Kindergarten and a member of the
Galli Group international. She
currently works as a freelance community artist.
Tianxiang Xu
board member
Festival of Friends Office China
Ph.D., Professor of Economics. Tianxiang Xu has been working in China, Japan
and Germany. He got involved in several intercultural exchange programs
since 1990s.
Being interested in researching and understanding different
cultures he joined the
Galli Group at 1998. Tianxiang Xu is major in Agricultural
Economics. He is right now Professor and Deputy Director of Economics Department
of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics in China. Dr. Xu published
four books on Economic Development and Agricultural Policies. He is good
at sports and was Champion of Table Tennis Match of Yunnan Province, China
(1987,1988).
Eric Larsen
board member
Festival of Friends Office Canada