Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF)
The Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF)[1][2][3], was established in February 2004.
Board of Trustees
CREF is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading personalities of the international academic, political and business world; it is currently chaired by Dan-Olof Riska, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Helsinki and treasurer and former president of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters[4]. The Board of Trustees constitutes the governing body of The Cyprus Institute. It holds the duty to govern CyI, to oversee the stewardship of CyI for its well-being and stability, and to ensure that CyI adheres to the purposes for which it was established. More specifically, the Board and its committees have responsibility for reviewing and providing guidance on strategic directions, approving annual budgets, exercising long-term fiduciary responsibility, conferring degrees, ratifying appointments of tenured faculty and other senior appointments and being available (individually and collectively) to advise the CyI President on various issues when requested.
The Board of Trustees consisted of:[5]
- Mr. Nicos Anastasiades (Honorary Chair), President of the Republic of Cyprus
- Prof. Dan-Olof Riska - Chair of the Board, Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
- Prof. Ruth Arnon, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Former President, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Prof. Michael Cates, Theoretical physicist, Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- Dr Günay Çerkez, Electrical Engineer and Businessman, Former President of T/C Chamber of Commerce
- Prof Daniel Cohen, Professor of Economics, École Normale Supérieure and the Université de Paris-I and at the École d'économie de Paris
- Prof Massimo Inguscio, Professor, University of Florence, President of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Italy
- Prof. Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University, USA
- Dr Symeon Kassianides, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Hyperion Systems Engineering, Cyprus
- Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus
- Prof Iain Mattaj, Honorary Professor, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Prof. Wajih Owais, Senator in the Jordanian Senate
- Dr George Pamboridis, Senior Partner of Pamboridis LLC
- Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas, President, The Cyprus Institute
- Dr Andreas Pittas (Chair, Executive Committee), Founder and Chairman, Medochemie, Cyprus, Former Chair, Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation
- Dr Janez Potočnik, Former EU Commissioner for Environment
- Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University; Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
- Prof Stavros Thomadakis, Professor of Finance at the University of Athens
- Mr Theodosis A. Tsiolas, Director General of the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development
- Prof. Harold Varmus, Lewis Thomas University Professor, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- Mrs. Androulla Vassiliou, Former European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth and Former Commissioner for Health
- Mr. Sotirios Zackheos, Executive Director, RCB Bank Ltd, Cyprus, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus
Trustees Emeriti:
- Prof. Edouard Brézin, École Normale Supérieure, France, Former President, French Academy of Sciences, and Chair of The Cyprus Institute Scientific Advisory Council
- Mr. Philippe Busquin, Former European Union Commissioner for Research
- Prof. Richard Cooper, Professor of International Economics, Harvard University, Former Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, USA
- Mr George Georghiou, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defense
- Prof. Anastasios Giannitsis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Former Minister of Interior, Greece
- Baroness Susan Greenfield, President of NeuroBio, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK, UK Member of the House of Lords
- Prof. Mahfouz Helal Hany, Cairo University, Egypt, Former Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research of Egypt
- Mr. John Joannides, Chairman, CIIM Board of Governors, Former CEO, Cyprus Development Bank
- Prof. Joshua Jortner, Former President, Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Professor of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Dr Petros Kareklas, Mayor of Kythrea, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Cyprus
- Prof. Linda Katehi, Chancellor Emerita, University of California, Davis, USA, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis
- Dr Anastasios Paul Leventis, Director of the Leventis Group international Companies, Chairman of the A G Leventis Foundation
- Mrs. Edmée Leventis, Former Ambassadress of Cyprus to UNESCO
- Prof. Ghislain de Marsily, Emeritus Professor, Sorbonne University, France
- Mr. Manthos Mavrommatis, Chairperson, University of Cyprus Council, and Former President, Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Dr Andreas Moleskis, Former Permanent Secretary of the Planning Bureau Cyprus, and Director of Administration and Finance, Neapolis University
- Prof. Ernest Moniz, Former Secretary of Energy, USA, and Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus and Special Advisor to the MIT President
- Prof. Didier Roux, Vice-President, Research and Development and Innovation, Group Saint-Gobain, France
- Prof. Herwig Schopper, Prof. Emeritus, University Hamburg, Former Director General, CERN, Switzerland
- Prof. Ismail Serageldin, Former Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
- Dr Khaled Toukan, Director General, SESAME, Jordan, and Former Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jordan
- H.E. Dr George Vassiliou, Former President of the Republic of Cyprus
References
- ↑ "The Cyprus Institute - CREF". CyI. Retrieved 24/02/20. Unknown parameter
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