The European Courier is an online magazine covering topics of politics 2.0, foreign policy, democracy, human rights, economy, new media and health. We have developed significant readership in 3 strategic online segments: politics, new media/technology and health issues. We focus on providing written content with small emphasis on video communication. Our present editorial model consists of news curation plus production of original content, predominantly in an op-ed form with some reporting from events in the technology industry and politics.
We regularly cooperate with non-profit organizations helping them to promote social causes that they fight for and we do so by directly engaging our readership through feedback channels (social media), newsletters and publications at our site.
Our work have been featured or quoted on Ebru TV (Channel 53), Noticias 24, Noticiero Digital, Latin American Tribune, Daily Kos, Foreign Policy Association’s website, Central Europe Digest, Stosunki Międzynarodowe, Portal Spraw Zagranicznych, Dnevni Avaz, Sarajevo-X, Bosnia Daily and many other popular blogs and publications.
Our magazine’s contributors appear regularly in the mainstream American, European and Latin American media.
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STAFF
SEBASTIAN AULICH (www.sebastianaulich.com) serves as a Marketing Director and the Editor-in-Chief of The European Courier. Under his management our magazine has grown from a start-up publication in 2006 to a popular digital media outlet with daily readership of a few thousand people from several different countries. As a result of Sebastian’s activities, our magazine has been invited to participate in several expert panel discussions, TV programs and has been quoted in major online and traditional media in Europe and the Americas. Sebastian organized a group of our magazine’s contributors, including distinguished diplomats and politicians, who regularly appear on CNN International, Fox News, Globovision or have been featured and published in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy magazine, The Weekly Standard, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, El País and many other recognized publications.
Sebastian Aulich and Governor Jon Huntsman - Salem, NH
Sebastian appeared as a foreign policy expert in two episodes of the “World Affairs” talk-show at Ebru TV (Channel 53) in 2008-2009. He is also a contributor to Stosunki Międzynarodowe, the largest international relations magazine in Poland.
Besides his involvement with our magazine, Sebastian has been working as a media and marketing consultant and created promotional strategies and business plans for technology and internet start-up companies in the United States and China. He has advised public figures in two different countries on their marketing strategies, online reputation management and social media initiatives.
Sebastian holds an MBA degree from Boston University Graduate School of Management. He is also a graduate of the George Washington University Law School (LL.M) and the Lazarski School of Commerce and Law (Master of Laws). In 2010, he lived, studied and travelled extensively in China. Sebastian holds a black belt in judo and is a vivid fan of boxing (….about which he can talk a lot 
). You may contact him at:
s.aulich [at] europeancourier.org
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IRIS FELICIANO serves as a Social Media Director and the Managing Editor of The European Courier. She is responsible for spearheading our endeavors to grow the magazine’s presence in the social media and create an engaged community of readers. She directly manages the “News” and “Health” sections of our magazine. Iris holds a bachelor degree in marketing and management from Long Island University and she previously worked at Rush Communications and PhatFarm, a large fashion company in New York City. In the past, Iris successfully managed and created product brands for a multi-million dollars jewelry company from the New York City’s Diamond District. Contact Iris at:
iris [at] europeancourier.org
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CONTRIBUTORS and GUEST WRITERS
Diego E. Arria is a Venezuelan diplomat and politician. Founding Editor of El Diario de Caracas, former Governor of Caracas, Congressman and Minister of Information and Tourism. He served as the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. He also served as Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations, as well as President of the UN Security Council where he initiated a modality that is named after him: the Arria Formula. Ambassador Arria has served on the board of the International Crisis Group (he is now a Senior Adviser), in the International Peace Institute, as a Diplomatic Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. At present he is on the board of the Institute of the Americas at the University of California, the United Nations Association of the United States, the Museum of Art and Design of New York, on the Advisory Board of the Center for International Policy and Ethics of Brandeis University, and the School of International Service of American University in DC.
Diego Arria, the former President of the United Nations Security Council
Muhamed Sacirbey is a distinguished diplomat and international lawyer. He is best known for serving as Bosnia’s Foreign Minister and its Ambassador to the United Nations between 1992 and 2000. Prior to entering international politics, Mo had a successful career as an investment banker in New York City and served as the Vice-President of the Standard & Poor’s. He also was an agent before the International Court of Justice and the Signatory to Rome Conference establishing International Criminal Court. Mo is a frequent commentator on global affairs and appears regularly in mainstream media, such as CNN International, Dutch NOVA TV, Middle East’s Al-Jazeera and many others.
Mo Sacirbey (second to the right) with President Bill Clinton and Congressman Mike McMahon
Gustavo Coronel was a founding member of the Board of Directors for Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), 1976-1979. He was elected to the House of Deputies for the State of Carabobo, the most highly industrialized state in Venezuela, however the Congress was subsequently dissolved by Hugo Chavez in 1999. In 1990 he founded and led for ten years, Pro Calidad de Vida, a Venezuelan non-governmental organization active in anti-corruption work in Latin America, and was Venezuelan representative of Transparency International from 1995 to 1998. He has been a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, and was a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University. Mr. Coronel is a graduate of the University of Tulsa, Central University of Caracas and Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Florence Hartmann is a French journalist and writer. She served as a spokesperson for the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Prior to that, she worked for several years as a Balkan correspondent for Le Monde. She authored two books: “Milosevic, la diagonale du fou”, Denoël, 1999, Gallimard Folio, Paris, 2002 and “Peace and Punishment, the Secret Political War and International Justice”, Flammarion, France 2007.
Rick Robinson holds B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and M.A. degree in English from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Mr. Robinson worked as a county-level campaigner in Dukakis (1988) and Clinton (1992) presidential campaigns. He presently works as a journalist and political commentator. Prior to becoming a writer he served in the U.S. Navy.
Rich Basas, A Canadian Masters Level Law graduate educated in Spain, England, and Canada (U of London MA 2003 LL.M., 2007), has worked researching for CSIS and as a Reporter for the Latin America Advisor out of Washington DC. He went on to study his MA in Latin American Political Economy in London with the University of London and LSE. Subsequently, Rich followed his career into Law focusing mostly on International Commerce and EU-Americas issues. He has worked for many commercial and legal organizations as well as within the Refugee Protection Community in Toronto, Canada, representing detained non-status individuals residing in Canada. Rich will go on to study his PhD in International Law in 2010.
Thor Halvorssen Mendoza is the President of the Human Rights Foundation from New York City, the organizer of the Oslo Freedom Forum, a movie producer and a media investor. Mr. Halvorssen is best known for his human rights activism in the Americas. His writings appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and many other recognized newspapers and magazines. He is one of the descendents of Simon Bolivar and a cousin of Venezuelan opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez Mendoza. Mr. Halvorssen shares some of his writings with the European Courier.
