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CEELI Spotlight:

Come one, come all to the
1999 CEELI Luncheon
on Saturday, August 7th.
President Emil Constantinescu of Romania
will be honored.
Justice Richard J. Goldstone, will deliver
the keynote address.

CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Dr. Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania

Born on November, 19, 1939.
Married to Nadia Ileana Constantinescu. Two Children, Dragos and Norina.

STUDIES:	1956 -1960	Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Diploma in Law, 1960
	1961 -1966	Faculty of Geology-Geography, University of Bucharest, Diploma in Geology, 1966
	1979	Doctor in Geological Studies, University of Bucharest
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:	1960 - 1961	Judge at the Commercial Department, Tribunal of Pitesti. Restrictions imposed on the judicial system by the communist regime make him decide to abandon his position and to pursue studies in geology.
	1966 - 1990	Assistant lecturer, lecturer and senior lecturer in the Faculty of Geology-Geography, University of Bucharest.
	1991 - present	University Professor in Mineralogy-Crystallography with in the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest.
	1990 - 1992	Vice rector of the University of Bucharest.
	1991 - 1992	Visiting Professor at Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
	1992 - 1996	Rector of the University of Bucharest, Chairman of National Council of Rectors of Romania.
	1994 - 1998	Member of Steering Committee of the Association of European Universities. Member of the International Association of University Chairmen.
	1996 - present	Honorary Chairman of Bucharest University Senate.
	1989 - 1998	Lectures at the Universities of Tubringen (Germany), Oxford (Great Britain), Berkeley, Georgetown, Indiana-Bloomington (USA), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Sydney (Australia), Caroline University in Prague (Czech Republic), Lublin (Poland), Turku (Finland), Cairo (Egypt). Chairman and key-speaker in international congresses and conferences of nature and human sciences in France, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, Japan, China, Korea, Greece.
POLITICAL ACTIVITY:	1990	Founding member and leader of the Universitarian Solidarity, an organization of professors, researchers and students working for the democratic reconstruction of Romania. Founding member and member of the Steering Committee of the Civic Alliance, the most comprehensive and influential organization of the civil society in Romania, which aimed at and succeeded in supporting the democratization of Romanian society and in promoting inter-ethnic co-operation.
	1991 - 1994	President of the Civic Academy.
	1991	Chairman in office of the Romanian Democratic and Anti-totalitarian Forum which, in November 1991, set up the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR), a broad center-right political alliance bringing together Christian-Democrat, Liberal, Social-Democrat and Environmental parties, as well as civic organizations and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania.
	1992	Sole candidate of the Romanian Democratic Convention for presidential elections in autumn 1992. He goes into the second electoral round with the then-acting President (Ion Iliescu) and gains 38% of the votes. He is elected President of the Romanian Democratic Convention.
	1993 -1996	He implements a CDR organizational conception based on the following understanding the citizens' real needs, drafting a clear and precise political offer; selecting and training specialists capable of offering solutions to the serious economic, political, social or administrative problems Romania is facing. In March 1995 he is re-elected President of the CDR and becomes the sole candidate of this alliance for the up-coming presidential elections. In November 1995 under his leadership, the CDR launches the Contract with Romania, a political and electoral program based on a series of clear objectives, with a precise timeframe, aiming at solving the most difficult problems of Romania. As leader of opposition in Romania, he has meetings with heads of state and governments and also party leaders from many countries of the world; he builds a system of international political relations for the center-right Romanian opposition, in this context his voice becomes stronger and more credible.
	1996	In February, the Democratic Convention led by Emil Constantinescu wins the local elections in most of the cities of Romania, including the capital - Bucharest.
		On November 3, the Romanian Democratic Convention wins the parliamentary elections, thus becoming the main political grouping of the Government.
		On November 17, Emil Constantinescu is elected, by direct vote, President of Romania.
	1997 - 1998	As head of State, he sets up and leads the Committee for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime, launches and co-ordinates several programs, including "The Children of Romania" Program, "Romania at the Crossroads" as a program for the development of regional infrastructure, and the &quote;Poverty-combatting&quote; Program. At the international level, he strongly supports Romania's integration into NATO and the European Union; the consolidation of bilateral relations and the development of trilateral agreements in Central and South-East Europe, in the political and economic fields and in combating cross-border crime. He promotes the historical reconciliation with Hungary and Ukraine.

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

1979

The Prize of Romanian Academy, the highest scientific distinction in Romania.

1992 - 1998

The Order "The Sun of Peru- Great Cross with brilliants", 1998

Great Cross of the French Honor Legion, 1996.
Aristide Calvani Prize for peace, democracy and human development conferred by the Christian-Democrat International, Paris, 1997.
European Statesman of the Year, Award conferred by the Institute for East-West Studies, New York, 1998
Doctor Honoris Causa bestowed by the University of Liege (Belgium), Free University of Chisinau (Republic of Moldova), Bilkent University in Ankara (Turkey), Superior Normal School in Paris (France), Politechnical University in Athens (Greece), University of Beijing (China), University of New Delhi (India), University of Montreal (Canada).
Medal of "The Center for Democracy", 1998.
Medal of the Caroline University in Prague (Czech Republic).
Medal of the Academy of Science of the France Institute.
Medal of the University of Paris (France).
Medal of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Citizen of honor of Athens, Prague and Budapest.

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC FOR A

Honorary member and member of: Royal British Geological Institute, 1991;

German Mineralogists Society, 1992;

Geological Society of Greece, 1992;

Geological Society of South Africa, 1993;

Mineralogical Society of America, 1994;

Japanese Society of Mineralogy, 1995;

Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, 1996;

French Society of Geography, 1997.

PUBLICATIONS

10 books, 54 scientific studies in geology published by prestigious magazines in Romania and abroad (USA, Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Canada; Greece, Japan, China). Over 100 articles, interviews, dissertations on political, economic, social, educational, cultural and environmental topics, published in daily newspapers and magazines (Time, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and volumes throughout the world.

R J Goldstone
     Justice of the Constitutional Court

     Richard J Goldstone was born on 26th October 1938. After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BA LLB cum laude in 1962 he practiced as an Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. In 1976 he was appointed Senior Counsel and in 1980 was made Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. In 1989 he was appointed Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. Since July 1994 he has been a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

     From 1991 - 1994, he served as Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and Intimidation which came to be known as the Goldstone Commission. He is also Chairperson of the Standing Advisory Committee of Company Law. From 15 August 1994 to September 1996 he served as the Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
     Justice Goldstone is National President of the National Institute of Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders (NICRO), chairperson of the Bradlow Foundation, a charitable educational trust, and heads the board of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA).

     His other responsibilities include being the Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a member of the Board of its School of Law, a Governor of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and President of World ORT (an international technical and technology training organization). He is a member of the International Panel established in August 1997 by the Government of Argentina to monitor the Argentinean Inquiry to elucidate Nazi activities in the Argentine Republic since 1938.

     The many awards he has received locally and internationally include the International Human Rights Award of the American Bar Association (1994)and Honorary Doctorates of Law from the Universities of Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Natal, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Notre Dame, Maryland University College, Wilfred Laurier in Ontario, the University of Glasgow and the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg, the Netherlands. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, London, an Honorary Fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge, an Honorary Member of the Association of the Bar of New York, and a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs of Harvard University. He was a member of the faculty of the Salzburg Seminar in 1996 and 1998.

     He is married (wife Noleen) and has two married daughters - Glenda and Nicole. He has two grandsons, Jason and Sean.