Michel R. Franck received a professional degree in Architecture and Urban Design in 1979 from the Ecole St. Luc in Brussels (ESLB), and a Master of Architecture in 1981 from Miami University, Oxford, OH. Upon graduation, Mr. Franck moved to New York and today he is the Managing Partner with the architectural firm of Spacesmith LLP. He lives in New York and has three children – Sophia, Natasha and Bryce. As founding member and President of the Luxembourg-American Chamber of Commerce (LACC), he remains active in New York’s Luxembourg and European business community. He is a founding member of the American Chamber of Commerce and today serves as its President. He is also a Board Member of the European American Chamber of Commerce (EACC), Board Member of the Luxembourg American Cultural Society (LACS), based in Belgium Wisconsin, as well as Board Member of the Edward Steichen Award, Luxembourg (ESAL).

Mr. Hamilton is the Executive Director for the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP) and Chief Operating Officer for the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC), a NYS Center of Excellence, both located at Stony Brook University. His education includes a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and a MBA in Marketing from Hofstra University. He brings a focus in clean energy technologies with experience in business development, commercialization of engineering technologies, marketing and sales, as well as an ability to communicate well with early stage entrepreneurs in the clean energy arena. 

Educational Qualifications

• 1982 Master in Public Law (University Paris 2)


• 1983 Diploma in Political Science (Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP), Paris)


• 1983 Post Graduate Degree in Foreign Trade (University Paris 9)


• 2001 Post Graduate studies in Public Administration
  (Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Paris)

Career with the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry

• Jan 1989 Jointed the Ministry as Assistant to the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry concurrently in charge of the Asia desk (1989-1992), then the Latin America desk (1993), within the Directorate for Political Affaires


• 1994 - 1998 First Secretary, then Counselor, Luxembourg Embassy in London
  (Accredited to UK with co-accreditation to Ireland and Iceland)


• 1998 – 2002 Director for Legal and Cultural Affaires at Foreign Ministry,
  Luxembourg and non-resident Ambassador to Kiev (Ukraine)


• 2002 – 2007 Ambassador in New Delhi (India)


• 2007 – 2013 Ambassador in Tokyo (Japan) with co-accreditation to the Republic of Korea and the Republic of the Philippines


• 2013 - 2017 Ambassador in Beijing (China) with co-accreditation to Pakistan and Mongolia


• 2017 - …. Ambassador in Athens (Hellenic Republic); with co-accreditation to the Republic of Cyprus and Romania

Other Work Experience

• 1985 – 1987 Legal Advisor, International Protection Division of UNHCR (Geneva)


• 1984 – 1989 Lawyer in Private Practice (Luxembourg)


• May – Dec 1997 Political Advisor with OHR (Sarajevo), under Luxembourg EU Presidency
  * Recipient of Commandeur de l'Ordre national du Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (2014)

Cindy Tereba was born in 1979 in Luxembourg. She left her home country in 1998 to pursue her studies in fine arts and literature in London, Düsseldorf and Paris and subsequently pursued an international career. 

She started her professional path at the Institut Français in Düsseldorf before she ventured into the business world, working for a German ecommerce startup. In 2008 she left Europe to live and work in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Here she became the Business Development Services Manager of the German Emirati Chamber of Commerce supporting German companies to enter the GCC countries (except Saudi-Arabia and Yemen). Four years later she moved to Berlin where she first worked for the Luxembourgish economy, setting up the first foreign office of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce abroad and founding the Business Club Luxembourg, a business network of 80 Luxembourgish and German companies.

In 2019 she returned to Luxembourg to take up the post of Director International Affairs at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.