SEMINAR SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES
Markos Kyprianou
EU Commissioner for Health
Mr. Kyprianou has been the EU Commissioner for Health as of 1st
May 2004. He has a degree in Law and has specialised in
International Law and Tax Law, Company Law and Taxation. He has
practiced law since 1985 until 2003 and is an associate member of the
American Bar Association, member of the Harvard Law School
Association of Europe, member of the International Bar Association
and member of the Cyprus Red Cross Society.
He has served as Municipal Councillor for the City of Nicosia from
1986 to 1991. He is member of the Democratic Party and has served
as President of its Youth Organisation from 1993-1997. He has also
been member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party
(DIKO) since 1986 and of the Political Committee of the Party since
1990 and of the Executive Bureau of the Party from 1993-1998 and in
2001.
He was member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003
and Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2004.
Dr. Peter Anderson MD, MPH, PhD
International public health consultant
Dr. Anderson is an international expert on alcohol and tobacco policy.
He was trained as a general practitioner and a specialist in public
health medicine at the University of Oxford and the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England. His doctoral thesis was
on the risk of alcohol. Having worked for eight years as the World
Health Organization’s European alcohol and tobacco policy adviser
between 1992 and 2000, he now works as an international consultant
employed on projects financed by the European Commission, the
World Health Organization and several national and regional
governmental organizations throughout the world. He holds honorary
appointments in public health and primary care at the Universities of
Oxford in England and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. From 2002 to
2006 he was policy adviser to Eurocare. He is the European Editor for
the journal Drug and Alcohol Review, has over 100 publications in
international scientific journals and is the author or editor of 16 books
on alcohol and tobacco. He is also one of the authors of the report for
the European Commission “Alcohol in Europe: A Public Health
perspective”. Published last June, this report compiles and analyses
existing research on the impact of alcohol in Europe and was one of
the main inputs which informed the Commission's thinking when it
drew up the Communication on the Alcohol Strategy.
Dag Rekve
World Health Organisation - Geneva
Mr Rekve works as a technical officer in the Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse in the WHO in Geneva. He holds
Degree in Business and Economics and has specialized in psychology
and addiction behaviour. He has over fifteen years of experience
in prevention and treatment of substance use problems. He has
worked in a treatment institution for young drug addicts, as a
municipal drug advisor, as a director of an NGO and as a senior
adviser on substance use problems in the Ministry of Health and
Social Affairs in Norway. Rekve has also worked as media consultant
and programme manager for alcohol and drugs in theWHO Regional
Office for Europe in Copenhagen.
Mr Rekve is a former member of the Norwegian Government`s Drug
Advisory Committee, the European Commission`s working group
on alcohol and health and the network of counterparts to the WHO
European Alcohol Action Plan. He has been the writer or cowriter/contributor to numerous articles and policy papers at local,
national and international level, including a municipal drug strategy
for the city of Porsgrunn, two consecutive national strategies to
combat alcohol and drug problems in Norway and the Framework
for Alcohol Policy in the WHO European Region (2005). He is
currently working at the global level with the follow up of the 2005
World Health Assembly resolution on public health problems caused
by harmful use of alcohol.
Tiziana Codenotti
EUROCARE Vice-chairman
Ms Codenotti has a degree in Philology and Literature and has
specialised in Alcoholism and Alcohol-Related Problems.
For over 13 years, first as a consultant and then as chairman, she has
been working for Eurocare Italia, a non for profit organization
involved in the provision of information to the public, education and
training of voluntary and professional community care workers, the
provision of school based programmes, counselling services, alcoholfree clubs for problem drinkers, and advocacy activities.
In September 2006 she joined the Board of Directors of EUROCARE
as Vice Chairman and on October that same year she was nominated
by the Italian Minister of Social Affairs as alcohol expert in the
National Committee on Alcohol.
She has been involved as collaborating partner in many national and
international projects on alcohol related problems and she is also
presently involved in the national and international training
activities of the Clubs of Alcoholics in Treatment.
Monique Kuunders
STAP – Policy Advisor
Ms Kuunders graduated in 2000 from the Wageningen University
with a master in Cell Biology. She specialized in health
communication and policy innovation. From 2002 onwards, she has
been working for STAP (National Foundation for Alcohol
Prevention, the Netherlands) as a policy advisor. She has conducted
and coordinated research about alcohol marketing regulation and she
works on a broad range of alcohol prevention issues. She has recently
published a book about alcohol policy in the Netherlands ‘Beleid
onder invloed’.
Diane Black
Diane Black is the adoptive mother of three children with Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome. She is co-founder and secretary of the Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome Foundation of the Netherlands, whose activities
include: a Dutch-language website, www.fasstichting.nl;
newsletters; distribution of folders to professionals for use in
counseling pregnant women; organization of national symposia on
FAS; maintaining a Dutch-language mail group for parents of
children with FAS. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University (1986),
and previously held various positions as researcher at the University
of San Diego, Hoefer Scientific (San Francisco), INSERM (Strasbourg)
and Marion Merrell Dow Research Institute (Strasbourg). Since the
adoption of her three handicapped children, she has devoted her
time to her children and other FAS-related activities.