Register your email address so we let you know when a new newsletter has come out. We do not pass on email addresses to third parties.
Boards
Boards of Directors and Board of Advisors.
A. Boards of Directors
Anthony Asael: President, and Co-Founder
Anthony Asael is the founder and executive director of AiA. Having traveled around the world and encountered so many different cultures, Anthony hopes to build more tolerance through ARTistic communication. He wants AiA to be the international platform of art exchanges between children from all the countries of the world. A graduate of Solvay Business School in Belgium, he held management positions at various IT and telecommunication companies. Since 2005 he has dedicated 100% of his time to the nonprofit sector when he co-founded AiA with his partner Stéphanie Rabemiafara. His famous photographic works of “Colors and Scents” and the “UN Millennium Goals for Development through the eyes of the children” and other bodies of work have been exhibited on several continents. More of his work can be seen online at www.anthonyasael.com
Regis Verschueren: VP SecretaryRegis Verschueren, from Belgium, joined the Art in All of Us team at the beginning of 2006. Regis has a solid academic and professional background in marketing and business management, which are invaluable assets for AiA. Additionally, his very valuable experience as President of other non-profit organizations is also key to Art in All of Us’ daily management. He serves today as Secretary of our Board.
Sybille Smets – Director BelgiumBio coming soon
B. Board of Advisers
Ruggero Gabbai - Film Producer and Founder of Forma International
Born in Belgium in 1964, Ruggero received his B.F.A. at Rochester Institute of Technology (Kodak). He studied Film directing at Columbia University where he graduated in 1993. While at Columbia he studied and collaborated with directors such as Milos Forman, Emir Kusturica, Paul Schrader, and Martin Scorsese. His thesis project was also his first documentary, “The King of Crown Heights” which was aired on prime time by PBS America and was distributed worldwide. In New York, he funds the post-production company Arc Pictures. In 1994 he returned to Italy. His documentary Memoria, filmed in Auschwitz was selected for The Berlin Film Festival in 1997 and won numerous prizes. Since then, Ruggero has directed more than 25 documentaries. He recently completed a docu-fiction in Palermo called IO RICORDO, based on the testimony of the relatives of mafia’s victims and produced by Indiana Production of Gabriele Muccino (director of Will Smith’s “Pursute of Happiness”) and Paolo Borsellino Foundation. www.formainternational.it
Lisa Tucci : Director Europe
Originally from the United States, American Lisa R. Tucci has been living in Italy for over 15 years. For ten of those years, she’s been producing audioguides for museums, art cities, palaces and churches throughout the country. She is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of her own Company, Art&Media Communications, producing the Artineraries line of downloadable audio tours for iPods.
She met Anthony & Stephanie while visiting Tel Aviv, and, after falling in love with their work, is trying to promote their mission by organizing shows in Italy. She lives with the love of her life, her little dog Trevor.
Jerome WaterkeynJerome joined AiA at the end of 2006 to help with organizing the first AiA event in Belgium. Jerome fearlessly and successfully organized the AiA yearly event that year, and in 2007 and 2008 as well. Jerome has a degree in commercial engineering from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve. He works as an audit manager within PwC.
Travel lover, Jerome has crossed Southern Africa, South East Asia and South America. Jerome also decided to lead our board of advisers who will provide guidance to the Board of Directors in the development of Art in All of Us programs and in sticking to the mission and vision that direct’s AiA’s activities.
Stephanie Rabemiafara: VP, Treasurer, photographer and Co-Founder
Stephanie Rabemiafara is the founder, treasurer and Program Officer of AiA. She was born in a Madagascar, into a binational family, and showed interest in cultural diversity and exchanges from an early age. She has lived in Madagascar, Belgium, Germany, and Chile, filling herself with the local customs and cultures. She is a strong believer in the need for cultural diversity in one’s life from a young age. It is a necessary part of challenging your beliefs and building tolerance for foreign cultures and people. With this set of beliefs behind her, she found AiA with Anthony Asael, giving children a voice and the opportunity to learn from one another. Rich with a strong set of values, her extensive experience in different countries, and her professional work as an auditor for different auditing companies (such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte) and consulting companies (GFA Consulting Group), she is dedicating all of her time to the growth of AiA. Her work focuses specifically on program implementation, as well as accounting.
Raphael Guilbert: Director
raphael(at)artinallofus.org
Raphael was born in France, grew up in several African countries and had the chance for years to travel all around the world. Thanks to some fulfilling personal experiences and a solid academic and professional background in business, he now dedicates himself to preserve and support the richness and potential of human nature, as he likes to say. Raphael joined in 2005 and is now part of our global marketing team.
Hans Verheggen – Director
Hans Verheggen is a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Brussels, Belgium. He has more than eight years experience in management consulting with a focus on project management, financial accounting and cost controlling. Before starting work as a management consultant, Hans obtained a master's degree from the University of Antwerp specializing in International Economic and Diplomatic Relations. As part of his degree, he studied economics and finance at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne for one year and participated in an exchange program with Georgetown University's School for Continuing Education. Hans obtained scholarships from the European Commission, the Koning Boudewijnfonds and the Belgian Foreign Trade Board.
Roberto Edwards - Photographer and President of the Fundación América
The Chilean photographer Roberto Edwards was born in 1937, and after taking his first images at the age of 14 his professional vocation was established. After completing his studies of architecture, economy and cinema, at the age of 30, he built two projects that would ultimately mean an overturn in the editorial world in Chile: the publication of the magazine Paula, and the introduction of revolving news in four colors in Editorial Lord Cochrane.
From their first issue and for more than three decades, Roberto Edwards was in charge of the fashion photography in Paula. In 1976, at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago, he exhibited one of his more emblematic works: Los Oficios. He registered a series of characteristic activities of the Chilean popular identity, saving them from extinction in the fragile collective memory.
The central theme of Roberto Edwards consolidates in the human being that will always remain as main character of all its work. Within this theme, in 1981 he conceived one of the most ambitious projects in the cultural history of his country: Painted Bodies.
Today, Roberto concentrates his energy on Foundation America which works on a selected amount of projects that always include the social integration of the people and human beings
Egidio Crotti - UNICEF Representative Southern Cone
Mr Crotti joined UNICEF in 1985 as Assistant Program Officer in Bamako, Mali. He became Program Officer in 1987, a position which he held until his transfer to UNICEF Peru in 1991, as Program Coordinator. He was responsible for the coordination, implementation and management of the UNICEF country program of cooperation to improve the status of women and children in Peru.
In 1994, he served also as Coordinator of UNICEF’s Rwanda emergency operation in Goma, DRC.
Afterwards, Mr Crotti served as UNICEF Representative in Tunisia from 1997-2002. He was responsible for policy development, implementation and management of country programs, human and financial resources management and communication.
From, 2002-2009, Egidio was Unicef Representative for the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay). Today, Egidio Crotti is Representative of the Unicef in Uruguay
Liliane Petty
Lillian Petty is one of the most USA recognized Corporate experts in leading, designing, and implementing total health population strategies designed to improve employee health and reduce medical expenditures associated with chronic, preventable disease and associated health risks. Because of her work as a manager for Schlumberger she successfully implemented health programs resulting in high participation engagement and cost savings.
Lillian works to provide health education tools and resources for children, families and everyone. She believes that the old adage of 'an apple a day' combined with daily movement and positive behavioral support can sustain a healthier population - good for all!
Lillian sees Art is All of US as a look to the future for all children of the world to ensure a better tomorrow for all.
Lillian is a Licensed Social Worker (Texas, MSW) and a graduate of the University of Houston, Texas (BA).
Sharad Sapra, Communication Director, New York, UNICEF
Bio coming soon.
