Sarah is finally not alone in the office anymore. On Monday our new intern Andreas started his term at IFLRY headquarters. While interns were a regular sight when IFLRY was still located in Brussels, since we moved to London the executive director(s) had to spend their office hours alone. Fortunately, things have changed.

Andreas is from the city of Münster in Germany and he is studying for his MSc in Economics there. He has just returned from living a year in Granada, Spain (and will hopefully not be bothered too much by the London rain). Besides studying, Andreas is also the president of the students union at the Münster School of Business and Economics.

During his time in the office Andreas will mainly work on the IFLRY Alumni Project together with me. He is responsible for gathering information on our past bureau members and find out what they are doing today and how we can reach them.

In the last couple of years we have repeatedly been contacted by former members of the federation's executive who were keen to get to know what happened to their former colleagues. As we are facing IFLRY's 60th birthday this August, the bureau decided that this will be an excellent occasion to assemble all the people that spent hours, days, month and years of their lives striving to make IFLRY more effective and efficient year after year.

We believe that it will be very interesting and highly beneficial for past and present bureau members to engage in an ongoing dialogue with each other. Therefore we will use IFLRY's birthday to launch a network for all of them. If one starts researching what happened to our former executive the surprises don't stop. A lot of them stayed in politics, but many also have made impressive careers in business, media and other fields. I hope that we will be able to interest them in having a look at what IFLRY has become. 

As the entire process of gathering, distilling and utilising information is a lot of work, I am very happy that Andreas will support us on this project and I am looking forward to working with him. Of course, both Andreas and I will also depend on the help of our member organizations' help in tracking down some "lost" bureau members. So, if anyone has information, especially about "the current whereabouts" of bureau members from the 60s and 70s, we would be glad if you could send me an email to frederik@iflry.org.

Frederik