The Bureau

IFLRY's executive board (called Bureau) is responsible for the management of the association and for the control of all assets. It meets at least six times a year. It is elected every two years at the General Assembly. The current board was elected at the General Assembly in Skopje, the Macedonia, in November 2005.

Visit the Bureau Members' blog for more information about their work

Bureau members

Paola Silva (President)

Paola Silva is colombian and she is political scientist. She has been involved in youth participation and politics since she was at high school when she was elected as student representative for Directive Council at her school. After that she has been involved in youth organizations and campaigns to promote youth participation and also youth involvement on polítics. Since 2001, she has been member of UCJD and as International Officer she had the opportunity to attend several IFLRY events. She was elected as IFLRY vicepresident for the period 2003-2005 and she was reelected this year. In her professional work she works as a a researcher in a colombian NGO with topics related with peace and human rights. Right now she is working in a projetc to build a process of reconciliation and construction of post-conflict society in Colombia. She likes to dance and to read.

Contact Info

gsm: +573158500064
e-mail: paola@iflry.org

Calle 119 # 39-50 int. 5 apto 101
Bogotá
COLOMBIA

Bart Woord (Secretary General)

Bart is a 24 year old MA student in International Relations at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has been involved in political work for several years, mostly as International Officer of the Jonge Democraten, his Dutch member organization. Before, he took up numerous positions and responsibilities in different organizations, and also lived (and pretended to study) in Denmark for a while.

As deputy president of the organization, Bart is involved in every facet of the day-to-day work. He is also in charge of the Membership and Communications departments, and is the IFLRY representative for Western Europe as well as Russia, Belarus and Ukraine which he coordinates together with IFLRY VP Jelena Spasovic.
Contact Info

gsm: +31615624560
e-mail: bart@iflry.org

Chris Gallaway (Treasurer)

Chris Gallaway is formerly the President of the Young Democrats of America

Contact Info

e-mail: chris@iflry.org

Anihassata Camara (Vice-President)

Contact Info

e-mail: aicha@iflry.org

Frederik Ferié (Vice-President)

Frederik was born in the small city of Georgsmarienhütte in the north-west of Germany. As the cities name unspeakable for most non-Germans and way to long for any immigration form he decided to find a new home for himself.

During the last couple of years Frederik has studied Business Administration at Münster University, Germany and Tel Aviv University, Israel and now is about to obtain his degree as a Diplom Kaufmann (German M.Sc.), majoring in Marketing, International Management as well as Production- and Supply-Chain Management.

In his free time Frederik loves to travel - especially in the Near and Middle East and enjoys learning languages. If you ever want to send him a birthday present, a bottle of single malt Scotch is more than welcome - also when it's not his birthday.

Contact Info

gsm: +491776147475
e-mail: frederik@iflry.org

Holunderstr. 1
49124 Georgsmarienhütte
GERMANY

Jan Argy Y. Tolentino (Vice-President)

Jan-Argy Tolentino is currently Secretary-General of the Young Liberals and Democrats of Asia or YLDA and seved as Secretary General of the Filipino liberal Youth organization Kabataang Liberal ng Pilipinas (KALIPI). He served as Political Affairs Officer for the Commission on Appointments in the Philippine Congress and he is a part-time faculty of the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Drawing from his immense experience and knowledge on youth concerns, he has been a constant speaker and facilitator on various seminars on politics. He has a degree on Political Science with specialization on Public Administration from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Contact info

Gsm: +639175262749 / +639284843868
Email: janargy@iflry.org
Personal Email: jr_pilipino@yahoo.com.com

4525-B Pag-Asa St., Sta Mesa
Manila 1016 Philippines