Board:
Benjamin Melchior, Israel, President.
Christian Huebner, Germany, Vice President.
Ishmail El-Rayed, Morocco, International Coordinator.
Rinus Peters, Netherlands, Economic Director.
Michelle Maybanks, Great Britain, Member.
Allan Jensen, Denmark, Member.
Dwight O'Massey, USA, Member.
Louise Johansson, Sweden, Member.
Members are elected for one year by full-time members.
The board - and full-time members - meet once a year, next time on the third of June 1998 in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the year the board communicate intensely through the Internet.
Expert Group:
David Nordstrom, USA, Leader.
Sven Ole Hagen, Norway, Member.
Jani Jutila, Finland, Member.
Peter Andersen, Denmark, Member.
The expert group is permanent and was appointed by the board on July 1st 1997.
The group is hired to come up with and evaluate plans of expansions.
Finance:
Finance is supported for by the Foundation of Didier Randriantefy (1912-1986).
Didier was a Malagasy-born carpet manufacturer who lived most of his life in the U.S. where he build up a considerable fortune. After he died a Foundation was set up to forward projects to assist the development of Madagascar.
In 1997 EFM has received 2,3 $ million.
20 per cent of the money go to our experts (working for our expert group but not members of which)
5,5 per cent go to administration.
The rest, 74,5 per cent, will pay for the eventual implementation of one of our plans.
Everybody, in the board and in the Expert Group, works for free.
Membership
The Front has 87 paying members in 25 different countries. Membership is 20 $ a year. But only selected individuals (with connection to Madagascar often) can become full members. Mail for details or query: allando@geocities.com
The Front has 3567 (on August 18th) Internet-members.
Membership is free, just write to this address: allando@geocities.com.
The internet membership is more symbolic than anything else.