The Executive Board

The executive board is governing body of the organization. All board members are volunteers, and are only compensated for their direct expenses. For the period 2025-2026, the executive board, elected by the Committee members of TEJO, is comprised of:

- Ana Ribeiro – President | main responsible about Activist Training, External Relations, Congresses, Strategy and Projects and Grants | deputy responsible about Information and Contact and Culture | prezidanto@tejo.org
- Igor Almeida (Ikvero) – Vice-President | main responsible about Equality, Adolescents, Information and Contact, Volunteers | deputy responsible about Projects and Grants | ikvero.almeida@tejo.org
- Snehaja Venkatesh – Secretary General | main responsible about Universities, Patrons | deputy responsible about Sciences, Online Events | snehaja.venkatesh@tejo.org
- Manohimiharintsara ANDRIANIRINA (Mihary) – Treasurer | main responsible about Finances and Online Events | deputy responsible about Departamental Activity | mihary.andrianirina@tejo.org
- Alexandre Basque – Board member | main responsible about Sciences, Pasporta Servo | deputy responsible about Congresses | alexandre.basque@tejo.org
- Espoir Ngoma Kasati – Board member | main responsible about Country and Culture | deputy responsible about Strategy | espoir@tejo.org

Committee

The Committee is the decision making body of TEJO. It usually convenes during the International Youth Congress in July/August, and if possible another time during the New Year’s period. Between meetings, the Committee discusses through an online discussion board and it can also vote online and by post.

(The list is updating)

Committee Members:

Committee:

The members of Committee A are the representatives of the national and specialist sections of TEJO.

For the Country Departments

Marton Paulo | Brazil (BEJO)
Gilbert Niyukuri | Burundi (JEBUO)
Vít Guglielmo Mišurec | Czech Republic (ĈEJ)
Tobias Nowak | Denmark (DEJO)
Wayne Adrian Federigan | Philippines (FEJ)
Inès Kahin | France (JEFO)
Jean-Paul Kuhfahl | Germany (GEJ)
Victoria Schmidbauer | Germany (GEJ)
Giulia Costanzi | Italy (IEJ)
Pol Jimenez Isach | Catalonia (KEJ)
Yoan Michel Rodríguez Martínez | Cuba (KEJO)
Aušrinė Tamošiūnaitė | Lithuania (LEJO)
Konrad Orawski | Poland (PEJ)
Paulína Jalakšová | Slovakia (SKEJ)
John Emmanuel Magessa | Tanzania
Vu Thu Ha | Vietnam (VEJO)

Committee B (4):

The members of committee B are directly elected by the individual members of TEJO. Their maximum number depends on the number of individual members of TEJO.

Ramazani Amisi Nanjira
Abdou Karim Fall
HyunJoon YANG (Ĵun)
Jean de Dieu Kasereka Kikako
Xuyuan Hou (Ŝujano)
Ranja Robertine Jeanne d’Arc Lydie Zafinifotsy
Roman Ralko
Jonathan Schneider

Committee C:

This is a new type of committee member as a representative of the Young Friends of Esperanto.

Committee Ĉ (4):

The committee members A and B can elect committee members Ĉ:

Mung Biu
Tyron Surmon
Adam Zylka
Michael Bimemyimama
Konstanze Schönfeld
Jaime Tapia Zaragoza

Election Commission

The Election Commission is an organ of TEJO, whose existence and function is described in the Regulations for the Election of the Executive. Its task is to collect candidates por the exectuvie (and also to speak to possible candidates), judge the candidates and present a proposal to the committee for the election of the new executive. The Election Committee works for the same duration as the Executive, so it is elected in uneven years (after the election of the executive) and works until the election of the new Executive (usually two years later). The commission is reachable by email to elekta.komisiono@tejo.org – so send you candidacy (and proposals) there.

Tobiasz Kubisiowski
Espoir Ngoma Kasati
Luana Araújo de França

Commissioners

You can find the list of commissioners on the Commissions and Interesgrupoj pages.

Officers

Manuela Burghelea | General Director
David Ruíz Sánchez | Council of Europe External Relations and Grants Officer
Albert Stallin Garrido | Event Managing Officer
Carlos Pesquera Alonso | Projects and Grants Officer
Severija Marija Banaitytė | Communications Officer [part-time]
Gabriele Esposito Guido | Coordinator of volunteers

Past officers were:

Mia Nordentoft | AKSO officer
Clément Baleyte | UEA and TEJO employee and coordinator of volunteers
Spyridon Papadatos | Full-time External Relations Officer
Ariel Giorgio Nikolov | Communicator [part-time]
Paulína Jalakšová | Grants Officer [part-time]
Said Balouchi UEA and TEJO employee and coordinator of volunteers
Fatma Eroğlan ECY Project Manager [quarter time]
Łukasz Żebrowski | Country activist and AEJK project [quarterly]
Quentin Weber-Seban | External Relations Officer [part-time]
Mounir Abijou | Grant applicant

Volunteers

Giovanni De Lucia (Italy)
Thomas “Korsako” Demeyere (Belgium)
Gabriele Esposito Guido (Italy)

Past volunteers have been:

Salvatore Iozzo (Italy)
Maria Tsagari (Greece)
Cyril Schultz (France)
Héloïse Lellouche (France)
Jonas Löser (Germany)
Jeanne Grimaud (France)
Lenka Doškářová (Czech Republic)
Wojciech Oreszczuk (Poland)
Livia Noghi (Romania)
Leonardo Popov (France)
Guaroa Emmanuel González Cuevas (Spain / Dominican Republic)
Renato Guedes Filho (Brazil / Portugal)
Valentin Ceretto Bergerat (France)
Quentin Auduc (France)
Afroditi Konstantopoulou (Greece)
Maria Leonor Fernandes Pacheco (Portugal)
Ernesto Sánchez Hernández (Spain)
Mia Nordentoft (Denmark)
Clément Baleyte (France)
Manuela Burghelea (Romania)
Valia Tamvaki (Greece)
Paul Helly (France)
Olga Sevcenco (Moldova)
Gilbert Niyukuri (Burundi)

Editors

Thiago Ballestero Assumpção | Kontakto Magazine
Igor Almeida | “Movada Rubriko” in Kontakto

Representatives

Representatives of TEJO at other organizations

Observantoj de TEJO ĉe UEA: Tyron
Observanto de TEJO ĉe ILEI: Snehaĝa
Reprezentantoj de TEJO en la Komitato de UEA: Hans Becklin, Albert Stalin Garrido
Reprezentanto de TEJO en Fondumo Zamenhof: Iwona Zalewska

Representatives of other organizations at TEJO

Observantoj de UEA ĉe TEJO: Fernando Maia Jr, Aleks Kadar
Observanto de ILEI ĉe TEJO: Yuro Jung (Unika)

Honorary Titles

The Regulations of TEJO include the titles of Honorary Presidents and Honorary Members. According to these regulations, TEJO is not to honor more than one person with these titles each year. The proposal to elect Honorary Members or Honorary Presidents can be made either by the leadership, 10 delegates or 25 individual members from at least 5 different nations. The committee decides on the outcome of this proposal.

Honorary Presidents of TEJO

s-ino E. van Veenendaal-Bouwes, Nederlando (1947–1966)
s-ro G. Becker, Germanio (1964–2008)
prof. d-ro H. Tonkin, Usono (1971)
prof. d-ro R. Corsetti, Italio (1973)
d-ino F. Szabó-Felső, Hungario (1975)
s-ino C. Nourmont, Luksemburgio (1978)
d-ro S. Tsiturdis, Grekio (1979)
prof. d-ro A. Wandel, Israelo (1989)

Honorary Members of TEJO

F. Gabalda, Francio
I. Tarrant, Britio
A. Gonĉarov, Rusio
D. Ederveen, Nederlando

Lifelong Patrons of TEJO

subtena kategorio

s-ino A.J. Bakker-ten Hagen, Nederlando
s-ro D. Besseghini, Italio
s-ino C. Bracke, Belgio
d-ro S. Bosga, Svedio
s-ro J. Brozovsky, Usono
s-ro Manuel M. Campagna, Kanado
s-ino P. de Caspary, Norvegio
s-ro R. Clerici, Italio
s-ro K. Peder Hoff, Norvegio
s-ino Honda Machimura Terumi, Japanio
d-ro B. Johnson, Kanado
s-ino E. Kehlet, Danio
s-ino K. Kikusima, Japanio
s-ro A. Kronenberger, Germanio
s-ro J. Stryhn Meyer, Luksemburgio
s-ro R. Moerbeek, Nederlando
s-ro B. Moon, Luksemburgio
s-ino B. Muizelaar-Borger, Nederlando
s-ro J. Nordfalk, Danlando
s-ro A. Ruysschaert, Luksemburgio
s-ro Sibayama Z., Japanio
s-ro T. Sormunen, Finlandio
s-ino I. Tautorat, Germanio