The Empress Theophano Foundation
Foundation
The Prize is awarded annually by the Governing Council of the Empress Theophano Foundation, set up for this purpose in Thessaloniki, the second most important city of the Byzantine Empire.
It does so upon the recommendation of an Advisory Council, which acts as the jury and comprises people with different backgrounds from the various historic-cultural parts of Europe.
The Governing Council
Chairman
Stavros Andreadis
Honorary President, Sani/Ikos Group
Chairman, Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece (GR)
Members
Nikolaos Efthymiadis
Chairman, EFTHYMIADIS Agrotechnology Group
Honorary Chairman, Federation of Greek Industries (GR)
Evangelos Gerovassiliou
Chairman, Gerovassiliou Wines (GR)
Constantinos Gleoudis
Chairman, Kavex
Member of the Board, Hellenic Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage (GR)
Theodoros Ikonomou
Chairman, Greek Forest Property Association
Head of a forest management and wood production firm (GR)
Nada Korac Kakabadse
Professor of Policy, Governance and Ethics, Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK)
George Mylonas
Chairman, Alumil Group (GR)
Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann
Professor Emeritus of Political Theory and European Politics, University of Salzburg (AT)
Stefan Schepers
Secretary General, High Level Groups on EU Policy Innovation (BE)
Foundation Member
Vassos Konstantinidis
Chairman, INART (GR)
The Advisory Council
Chairman
Herman Van Rompuy
President Emeritus of the European Council
Minister of State of Belgium (BE)
Members
Mary McAleese
Former President of Ireland | Professor of Children, Religion and Law, University Glasgow (IRL)
Chantal Colleu-Dumond
Directrice du Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (F)
Nikiforos Diamandouros
Former European Ombudsman (GR)
Tarja Halonen
Former President of Finland (FI)
Sonja Licht
Sociologist, Former Chair of Open Society Foundation (RS)
Alessandra Mignolli
Professor, Sapienza University, Rome (I)
Sigrid Müller
Professor, University of Vienna (A)
Camilla Nothhaft
Professor, Lund University (S)
Maria Luisa Poncela
Former Secretary of State for Trade, Secretary General for Science and Innovation of Spain (ES)
Michel Praet
Vice-President, Museum of European History (BE)
Georges Prevelakis
Professor Emeritus, Paris-Sorbonne University (FR)
Sir Ivan Rogers
Former UK Ambassador to the EU (UK)
Eveline Riemen-van der Ham
Vice-President Nexus Institute (NL)
Vassilios Skouris
Former President, European Court of Justice of the EU (GR)
Rita Süssmuth
Former President of the German Parliament (DE)
Panos Tzonos
Professor Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Project Management
Vicky Papadimitriou, General Manager (Thessaloniki, Greece) info@theophano.eu
Andrew Fielding, Senior Advisor (Brussels, Belgium) andrew.fielding@skynet.be
SYMVOLI Conference & Cultural Management, Project Management (Thessaloniki, Greece) theophano@symvoli.gr
Logo, Jan Witek (Warsaw, Poland)
Web design, DSIGÑ (Madrid, Spain)
Foundation supporters
The establishment and operation of the Theophano Foundation is supported by:
· King Baudouin Foundation, Fund Joseph Schepers-Germaine Lijnen
· EPPA SA