Former Executives

Former ESSE Executive members and other ESSE officers

These are the lists of previous presidents of ESSE, secretaries of ESSE, treasurers of ESSE, editors of The European English Messenger, and webmasters of the ESSE website, with the year and place of their election, and the dates when they held office.

Presidents of ESSE


Piero Boitani
(January 1990, Rome)
(Jan. 1990 – Jan. 1995)


Helmut Bonheim
(October 1994, Lisbon)
(Jan. 1995 – Jan. 2001)


Adolphe Haberer
(August 2000, Helsinki)
(Jan. 2001 – Jan. 2007)


Fernando Galván
OBE (August 2006, London)
(Jan. 2007 – Jan. 2013)


Liliane Louvel
(August 2012, Istanbul)
(January 2013 – January 2019)

Secretaries of ESSE


Robert Clark
(January 1990, Rome)
(Jan. 1990 – Jan. 1996)


Norman Blake
(September 1995, Glasgow)
(Jan. 1996 – Jan. 1999)


Graham Caie
(September 1998, Berlin)
(Jan. 1999 – Jan. 2002)


Hortensia Pârlog
(September 2001, Vienna)
(Jan. 2002 – Jan. 2008)


Slavka Tomascikova
(August 2007, Vilnius)
(Jan. 2008 – Jan. 2014)


Smiljana Komar
(August 2013, Cluj-Napoca)
(Jan 2014 – Jan. 2020)

Treasurers of ESSE


Peter de Voogd
(March 1992, Berlin)
(Jan. 1993 – Jan. 1996)


Carmelo Cunchillos
(September 1995, Glasgow)
(Jan. 1996 – Jan. 2002)


Lachlan Mackenzie
(September 2001, Vienna)
(Jan.2002 – Jan. 2008)


Tim Caudery
(August 2007, Vilnius)
(Jan. 2008 – Jan. 2014)


Alberto Lázaro
(August 2013, Cluj-Napoca)
(Jan 2014 – Jan. 2020)

Editors of The Messenger


Paul-Gabriel Boucé
(June 1990, Brussels)
(Issue zero)


Helmut Bonheim
(September 1991, Norwich)
(From I, 1)


Neil Forsyth
(October 1994, Lisbon)
(From IV, 1)


Martin A. Kayman
(August 1997, Debrecen)
(From VII, 1)


John A. Stotesbury
(August 2003, Oxford)
(From XIII, 1)


Marina Dossena
(August 2009, Szeged)
(From XIX, 1)


Hortensia Pârlog
(September 2012, Istanbul)
(From XXII, 1)


Adrian Radu
(August 2015, Braga)
(From XXV, 1)

Webmasters of the ESSE website


Jean-Louis Duchet


Victor Kennedy
(August 1997, Debrecen)
(1998-2002)


Jacques Ramel
(January 2002, Strasbourg)
(2003-2021)